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After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, French archaeologists found traces of copper wire dating back 1,000 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone network all those centuries ago.
Not to be outdone by the French, English archaeologists dug to a depth of 20 meters and shortly after headlines in the U.K. newspapers read: "English archaeologists have found traces of 2,000-year-old fiber-optic cable and have concluded that their ancestors had an advanced high-tech digital communications network a thousand years earlier than the French."
One week later, Israeli newspapers reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 meters in a Jerusalem marketplace, archaeologists had found absolutely nothing. They, therefore, concluded that 3,000 years ago the Israelites were already using wireless technology."
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The Lounge[^]
But I'm sure a U.S. version could be added in which the diggers are sued for destroying a critical communications link.
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The link doesn't work. A search on the title of the message you referenced ("Stupid JOTD") found a message from 29-Feb-2012. We should, IMO, have a Statute of Limitations on Leslies. 
I agree re the U.S. version, but that would violate the "Rule of three" in humour.
EDIT: Statute of Limitations
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The link works for me.
The older post of course references older civilizations, as it should.
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Neither works for me
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wow! That was deep!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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The deadline got pushed out again. Normally that's a good thing, but I front loaded all of my work and worked myself hard to get it done early because of anxiety, when I could have easily dragged it out, even before the deadline got extended.
So now I am just trying to kill time and frankly, I have too much of it at the moment. I'm turning into a gamer, but I'm not really enjoying it.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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At least you are ahead of the game 
Otherwise you might enjoy a walk in the Atacama desert for free: Arid on Steam[^]
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Being on time is everything to me. I lose sleep when I miss deadlines. Every moment in overtime is anxiety for me, and I live with anxiety all the time anyway. I don't need more, so I don't miss deadlines.
Also, all my work is contract based. I have a business that it all funnels through and with that comes estimates and deadlines. I meet those deadlines or it's my reputation and as I alluded to - my sleep that suffers.
I've tried to depersonalize my projects, and I think I've done a decent job of doing so, but overall I do take pride in doing my best work, and it's important to me.
Sometimes though, all of the above can result in situations like this. It still beats being late.
It's just all the empty time to fill in "workday" now. I'll muddle through, I'd just rather be working.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” - D. Adams
Mircea
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honey the codewitch wrote: I'm turning into a gamer, but I'm not really enjoying it.
Could always start a gambling addiction.
Brought to you by the Bad Advice Council.
Jeremy Falcon
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I hate when it happens. I usually let deadlines go by without a care in the world knowing that most of the times they are ephemeral, but if a deadline is sold to me as super-critical, I work my arse off to meet it and then it's pushed I get royally pissed.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I want to create a program for Astronomical Ephemeris, but I don't know much about it.
My real intention is to understand this software astrolog at this
Any recommendations on some quick tutorials on this topic?
diligent hands rule....
modified 11-Feb-23 22:50pm.
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I used to use this one, might give you an idea of what's involved.
Photo Ephemeris[^]
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JaxCoder.com
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thank you!
diligent hands rule....
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Stellarium (stellarium.org) has an observability plugin you might be interested in. I haven't used it, so cannot comment further.
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I regularly use Stellarium from Portable Apps website. It is pretty straight forward but user interface is a little difficult at first. When you initially run it, it starts slow but be patient. When it first comes up it will be full screen. If move the mouse to bottom of window a popup will display some options.
Move cursor all the way to left corner. Another vertical menu will pop up. Select the top of the menu to get to the location specification interface. It's tricky, but you can enter your location by city name.
Move cursor to bottom again, horizontal menu comes up. On the right is date and time scroll buttons.
It's a great tool. And I have confirmed its star and moon locations by going outside and observing them.
To end the program hit the power button on far right of lower horizontal menu.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
modified 12-Feb-23 23:34pm.
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If you have a tracking telescope, Stellarium can control it for you. It is extremely powerful, and good enough for archaeoastronomy work. You can see some of it's archaeoastronomy abilities in the 'Our Forgotten Astronomy' link in my signature, if you are interested in such endeavors.
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I do not have a tracking telescope. Glad that Stellarium has such a feature. I have listened to some of your lectures about history, astronomy and religion. Pretty complicated but interesting about the links.
Funny how the stars and our lives can get intermixed. I remember seeing Haley's comet "many moons ago", one of my favorite expressions.
Thanx
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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My favorite will always be the night I got to watch the Northern Lights almost all night long. I've only seen them that once - Incredible!
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I have seen Aurora Borealis multiple times. In Canada and U.S. The last were huge white curtains with tinge of green that lasted for hours. I was told it happens quite often at northerly latitudes above 50 deg. BTW Aurora Australis is the southern latitude version. Not seen those.
Enjoyed your discussion on the potential roots of the Samson story.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Mine were green and red sheets, dancing all night. Little to no white. It was amazing!
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yup, you don't easily forget it. Amazing that it is very natural.
I guess if you see every night you are lucky but not always as amazed.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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