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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Perhaps the second time round, the Europeans power might use the brains God supposedly gave some of them, and avoid both World Wars.
Quite so!
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With all that's going on, it's only going to get worse.
Maybe ten or twenty years from now, 2020 will be "the good old days."
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[Young adult in 2040]
"Twenty years ago were the good old days. When I was lonely, I cried and they held me. When I was dirty, I cried and they cleaned me. And when I was hungry, I cried and they stuck boobs in my face!"
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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I don't think crying and shitting your pants counts as good old days.
The boob thing sounds good until you remember who they were from 
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When you're a few months old, there's nothing wrong with any of those activities.
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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I know, but you wouldn't want to go back to that time either (or so I hope) 
Actually, there are men who do, it's a fetish thing.
Not with their actual moms though, that would be an Oedipus thing 
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Don't be too optimistic. Depending on how the future turns out, we may find ourselves looking back on 2020 with nostalgic pleasure. 
You heard it here first:
- The alien invasion of 2021.
- The worldwide volcanic episode that began in 2021.
- The great EMP reset.
- The neutrino event.
In no particular order. 
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The neutrino event? How about the rogue neutron star event?
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That too.
I just felt that this[^] was always deeply suspicious.
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Interesting read, thanks.
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I think they mean xkcd: Lethal Neutrinos
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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Another interesting--and fun!--read.
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... or even worse : you're forced to use Lotus Notes, Mobile surfing, tab spacing, and VB6.0 due to year 2021 bug.
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Hey, 2020 isn't over yet... there's still time!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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fruit flies also like apples!
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If you say that getting the money
is the most important thing
You will spend your life
completely wasting your time
You will be doing things
you don't like doing
In order to go on living
That is, to go on doing things
you don't like doing
Which is stupid.
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(* well, not really that fast, depends your reference point)
Hi everyone!
How you all doing, I've not been as active on here lately unlike the past, I guess I've just been busy with other stuff!
Some of you know, but most of you probably don't, but I started a new hobby back at the end of February, the money pit called astrophotography! It's been a really steep learning curve, but I'm starting to see better results and really enjoying the tinkering. Even when I just throw an eyepiece onto my scope and just scan around, it scale of space just amazes me. Now that I'm getting slowly better at capturing galaxies and the planets (still a lot to learn and lots of room for improvement), I just want to see more and more.
The post processing is a nightmare, still no idea what I'm doing, but hey ho, I guess that will come with time.
Anyway, I recently started a new YouTube channel to document and share my equipment and some of my imaging. The last images on there are Saturn, Jupiter, The Bubble Nebula and Triangulum Galaxy.
Dave's Astrophotography - YouTube
If you are into that sort of stuff, or just want to have a nosey, please pay my channel a visit and come and see what I have been up to, (and if I can really twist your arm, hit the subscribe button please to keep up to date )!
I'm currently using;
Celestron EDGEHD 11" SCT (2800 mm focal length)
Celestron CGX mount
ZWO ASI2600 camera
ZWO ASI120mm guide camera
60mm guide scope
and also been using;
Besser 8" Newtonian, (1000 mm focal length)
Bresser EXOS-2 mount
Bresser AR90/500 guidescope
Bresser HD Guide camera
Nikon Z50 camera
Dave's Astrophotography - YouTube
Anyway, that's latest from me
cheers the noo!
modified 17-Oct-20 9:39am.
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Impressive, especially the white T-shirt !
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Good old flats calibration!
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I must say that I envy you your equipment. All I have is a 4".5 Newtonian, and in the light-polluted skies we have in Israel, it isn't even capable of getting close to its theoretical limits. 
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: light-polluted skies
You just live in the wrong part of it... Come to my forest and see the sky as clear as it can be...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Subscribed! 
..but do invest in a better microphone.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Thanks!
Yes, a mic is on the list!
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DaveAuld wrote: but I started a new hobby back at the end of February, the money pit called astrophotography!
 I see why you call it a money pit - those are some heavy equipment you got to use.
It would be good to gauge if I have interest through your videos. Will share if find anyone with similar interest of yours. Though in India, for such activities, all I have seen is some big telescope (and no heavy gadgets around.)
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