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The Abortion Wars
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The Obituary Page
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Words I didn't know...yrs ago
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Things that make you go Hmmmm.....
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MILESTONES: Famous People, Dead Today, Born Today, Etc.
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2024 Elections!
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What Did You See Today?
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Song of the Day
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• • • The Once-a-Day • • •
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Ask an Atheist
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Trump
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NYTimes Connections
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Joe Biden
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NY Times Strands
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Country Up The Bumpkin
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how do you feel right now?
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When I need a Laugh I ...
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Today in History
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Israel
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Live Music
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What Makes You Laugh?
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Robots
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Museum Of Bad Album Covers
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April 2024 Photo Theme - Happenstance
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Europe
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Name My Band
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What's that smell?
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USA! USA! USA!
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Business as Usual
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Talk Behind Their Backs Forum
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Russia
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Science in the News
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Magic Eye optical Illusions
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Ukraine
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Photography Forum - Your Own Photos
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Just for the Haiku of it. . .
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HALF A WORLD
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Little known information... maybe even facts
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songs that ROCK!
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260,000 Posts in one thread?
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WTF??!!
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Australia has Disappeared
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Earthquake
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It's the economy stupid.
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Republican Party
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Eclectic Sound-Drops
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Synchronization
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Other Medical Stuff
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Photos you have taken of your walks or hikes.
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Things You Thought Today
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Poetry Forum
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Dear Bill
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Radio Paradise in Foobar2000
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Mixtape Culture Club
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New Song Submissions system
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No TuneIn Stream Lately
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Caching to Apple watch quit working
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April 8th Partial Solar Eclipse
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Bug Reports & Feature Requests
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NPR Listeners: Is There Liberal Bias In Its Reporting?
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Sonos
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RP Windows Desktop Notification Applet
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If not RP, what are you listening to right now?
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And the good news is....
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How do I get songs into My Favorites
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Pernicious Pious Proclivities Particularized Prodigiously
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Lyrics that strike a chord today...
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Dialing 1-800-Manbird
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Index »
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NASA & other news from space
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Location: Big Sur & other highly ambient domains
Umberdog
Location: In my body. Gender:
Posted:
Dec 23, 2012 - 12:31pm
GeneP59 wrote: All I want to know is, who's taking the picture of the rover?
We never really sent a probe to Mars. It's all taking place on a soundless stage in Huston for the express purpose of making the Russians jealous.
buzz
Location: up the boohai
Posted:
Dec 23, 2012 - 12:10pm
Proclivities wrote: Martians have had smartphones since the early 1970s.
probably get better service too
Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
Posted:
Dec 23, 2012 - 12:03pm
GeneP59 wrote: All I want to know is, who's taking the picture of the rover?
Martians have had smartphones since the early 1970s.
GeneP59
Location: On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday. Gender:
Posted:
Dec 23, 2012 - 11:51am
RichardPrins wrote: All I want to know is, who's taking the picture of the rover?
miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
Posted:
Dec 23, 2012 - 8:05am
hippiechick wrote: thx that looks awesome
hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
Posted:
Dec 23, 2012 - 7:37am
R_P
Gender:
Posted:
Nov 1, 2012 - 5:05pm
oldslabsides wrote: awesome. we're exploring another planet, pretty cool stuff.
Exploration never gets old...
Though I understand they want to supply desktop images, I prefer getting rid of the black bars...
Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
Posted:
Nov 1, 2012 - 4:59pm
RichardPrins wrote: awesome. we're exploring another planet, pretty cool stuff.
Servo
Location: Down on the Farm Gender:
Posted:
Nov 1, 2012 - 4:57pm
So remote, high resolution images
are possible!
R_P
Gender:
Posted:
Nov 1, 2012 - 4:50pm
ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
Posted:
Oct 9, 2012 - 12:55pm
Zep wrote: Really? Wow ... I think the camera has a fisheye lens on it so that kind of distorts the horizon a bit. 70K is just above Concorde and SST and the sky does look that deep blue. So at 100 it's probably almost black.
71,500 or so. And isn't he shooting for 120k?
VIDEO
hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
Posted:
Oct 9, 2012 - 12:33pm
islander wrote: One of my "want to"s is to go up into the 70-80K ft range so you can see the curvature of the planet. I've been to 50K and that's cool, but still no curve.
You could try squinting. Or I could lend you Charlie to poke you in the eye at the right moment.
islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
Posted:
Oct 9, 2012 - 12:26pm
Zep wrote: This is what it looks like from that high up:
One of my "want to"s is to go up into the 70-80K ft range so you can see the curvature of the planet. I've been to 50K and that's cool, but still no curve.
Zep
Location: Funkytown
Posted:
Oct 9, 2012 - 12:05pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote: That was actually in the 70k range... so go a little higher.
Really? Wow ... I think the camera has a fisheye lens on it so that kind of distorts the horizon a bit. 70K is just above Concorde and SST and the sky does look that deep blue. So at 100 it's probably almost black.
ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
Posted:
Oct 9, 2012 - 11:57am
Zep wrote: This is what it looks like from that high up:
That was actually in the 70k range... so go a little higher.
Zep
Location: Funkytown
Posted:
Oct 9, 2012 - 11:55am
This is what it looks like from that high up:
jagdriver
Location: Now in Lobster Land Gender:
Posted:
Oct 9, 2012 - 11:24am
sirdroseph wrote: Well at least we hope not.
sirdroseph
Location: Not here, I tell you wat Gender:
Posted:
Oct 9, 2012 - 11:24am
bokey wrote: He's jumping from 120,000 feet.An Air Force guy jumped from 102,000 in 1960.It would be cool to watch,but nothing groundbreaking.
Well at least we hope not.
hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
Posted:
Oct 9, 2012 - 11:22am
bokey wrote: He's jumping from 120,000 feet.An Air Force guy jumped from 102,000 in 1960.It would be cool to watch,but nothing groundbreaking.
Well, not literally, I hope.