Favorites January 8th 2022
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A good reminder if you're super worried about Omicron and you're Boosted, it's still no fun, but it doesn't appear to be nearly as dangerous.
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From a century and a half away, all travel by boats looks slow, but putting engines on ships made things surprisingly fast.
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I wondered offhand previously how many single points of failure there are on a less complicated mission, and now here's the answer, 49 single points of failure after reaching orbit is normal. Wow
At first this looked sorta small, like it's a crawlspace, but this is a full height hallway! So many computers!
![Twitter avatar for @SabiVM](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/SabiVM.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @hartman_bill](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/hartman_bill.jpg)
Suddenly parents of 4 year olds are realizing their kids are actually 5 years old and don't have any identification.
![Twitter avatar for @sailorrooscout](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/sailorrooscout.jpg)
Just in case you come across the "deltacron" thing. For better or worse, fear gets clicks.
I’m still trying to figure out how to take interesting macro photos of snow, I don’t think I’ve quite got it yet.