A friend of mine is taking an astronomy class, and she was telling me about some of the impressively large telescopes that exist throughout the world. These are the sorts of things that cost hundreds-of-millions, sometimes billions of dollars, and see into the deepest, farthest, most distant recesses of space, beyond anything even conceivable in human imagination.
And of course, for projects that take many years, hundreds of people, and billions of dollars, that broaden the entire realm of human understanding, the telescopes need names. And no one tops astronomers at naming.
Ask yourself, what should one call a very large telescope? Something cool? Something unique? Something meaningful. Well ask no more, as astronomers have solved that problem. Allow me to introduce you to the
Brilliant. Beautiful. Send it to the presses Jim. But wait! What about a telescope that’s even larger! Worry not Jim, as we’ve got that covered:
Of course. Exceptional. Elegant. But wait! What if there’s one even larg–
Yo @fed-ex-official this is an old map of all suspected possible nuclear targets… I live in Little Rock, so as you can see, 4 bombs are dropped basically on top of me… So in Fallout… I’d be a pile of ash… You’re pretty much fine tho.
NJ is like that because I live there. The commies need to be sure I don’t survive.
I’m in the one part of VA’s east coast where one isn’t dropped so I’m definitely bathed in fallout.
Turkish president Recep Erdogan has ordered that at least 131 media outlets suspected of inciting or sympathising with this month’s failed military coup be permanently shut down. [x] [x]
That includes three news agencies, 16 TV channels, 23 radio stations, 45 daily newspapers, 15 magazines, and 29 publishing houses.
Erdogan’s post-coup purges have targeted at least 55,000 people, including soldiers, police, civil servants, and academics, suspected of inciting or sympathising with the military uprising. At least 16,000 have been detained so far.
Journalists (a long time favourite target of Erdogan’s) have also been hastily targeted in the post-coup crackdown. As of Thursday, 42 journalists have been detained, according to Turkish analyst and journalist Mahir Zeynalov (89 warrants have
presently
been issued).
Zeynalov has been sharing photos on Twitter of the journalists as they are hauled away by Turkish police. [Part 1 of 3]
“I saw a dead mail carrier as a random event. Raiders had killed him, and after I dealt with them I check the mail carrier. He was carrying a “pen pal” letter and in it the person who was writing the letter explained how the letters were the only thing keeping him going, he was living in a shack, and the only good thing he had got rip away from him. And that’s why I have no sympathy for blowing raiders brains out.”
“I want a fallout game to take place in a state full of religious people, I don’t mean like “Children of the Atom” I want some crazy pre war religion in there just to see how much they have evolved the religion (with the same rules) to adapt with the wasteland.”
