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The Coriolis effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force

3 years? If they manage to launch in the 2022 window I would imagine a rover will be included.

Emergences: A Talk by Danny Hillis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20879366

An excellent book and insight into a slice in time.

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The Marree Man geoglyph depicts a man holding either a woomera (a throwing stick once used to disperse small flocks of birds) or a boomerang (but see Plaque section below).

Anonymous until a cursory investigation.

As the formatting is unclear, it is worth noting that the parent comment is a short science fiction story, quoted in its entirety from the linked page.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

-Ernest Hemingway

https://dianedrake.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hemingway-...

Awareness of adultery seems to be the societally-destabilizing part of that concept.

I'm a mechanical engineer. My point is that stress analysis is the oldest, simplest, and most well understood application of finite element analysis.

I am not a mechanical engineer.

My understanding is that some composite materials used in modern aircraft manufacturing can fail in ways unlike classic aircraft aluminum (i.e. suddenly, without prior visible signs of stress/wear).

Is that relevant here?

It keeps users in the app.