Proud to say that in Colorado, ranked choice voting is on the ballot this year! It’s even supported by the big political names here, including the governor.

I actually had the TI-59. I remember I entered a program where you are trying to avoid a missile running on vectors and a mine that was teleporting around on a Cartesian grid, and saved that on one of the magnetic strips. And also programmed the quadratic equation on a magnetic card. It had a base it could attach to that provided power and had a thermal printer strip. That calculator also had a place to put a pre-programmed chip into it. I think I had casino games or something.

If you’re wondering how I had all that in high school, well that was what my dad thought would buy my affection when he left my mom for the secretary… Didn’t work, but I got a piece of cutting edge hardware for it.

No, there was a small slot that you would feed the magnetic card into from left to right. It had a little motor that would pull it through. I still have mine somewhere.

Silly, now you’ve broken the law in Florida because you’ve talked about climate change. That and signing petitions will get you a visit from the police! Totally normal state governmental functions.

It’s real! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins

Widdershins. It means counter to the sun’s direction , and was seen as inauspicious. Counter-clockwise, before clocks.

Proud to be a supporter of CPR…

I think that was in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, iirc

The right to arm bears…

Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney is exactly what you are looking for.

I’m not sure if it would be helpful for your project, but you might be interested in the concept of the grammar of graphics (https://towardsdatascience.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-grammar-of-graphics-for-effective-visualization-of-multi-dimensional-1f92b4ed4149).

I use a version of this in R as implemented in ggplot2. What is nice about it is that you can use standard text descriptions to build an arbitrary graph.

I had this posted over my when I was at engineering college!

I think I’m saying that mining on asteroids will probably never be profitable or realistic (with a possible exception of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen CHON once people are living on orbit). Mining on other planets might require understanding different geology and maybe different refining technology. Anything mined on a planet will likely stay there. But there just won’t be any ores on asteroids because they never had a chance to differentiate into higher and lower concentrations of various useful metals.

Metallurgical engineer here. One thing I never see talked about on this topic is how astreoids don’t have nearly the mechanisms for concentrating matals into ores like planetary bodies do.

So while there may be a higher proportion of, say, iridium on an asteroid than the average of Earth, it is pretty homogenous. You would have to refine the whole thing to get a little bit of iridium. On Earth, it may be more rare on average, but Earth also concentrates metals into ores via heat, gravity and water action so that you can mine a small area to get what your want economically.

Metal meteoroids are mostly iron, which is cheap on Earth and of little use in space. Aluminum, which is useful in space, is one of the most common elements on Earth and even higher on the Moon, but it’s only economically mined in tropical soil that had ages of water erosion. Titanium, different process but similar story.

Given the economics of getting to where you want to mine, mining a non-concentrated rock, and then transporting it back to Earth’s for sale I just didn’t see any path for mining asteroids.

Once there’s is an established human presence in space, there might be a reason to mine organics (CHON) but that is not now and not what people think of when they tout asteroid mining.

The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over a political party’s nomination process. That said …

From a jury I was being considered for (sexual assault), is not that you have no opinion, it is that you think you can be objective based on the evidence.

It’s not scare quotes. Just indicating a verbatim quote from her ex.

His name will be on the ballot, but if scotus finds that he’s ineligible he can’t win the nomination here, so vote for him would be wasted. Well, it’s wasted no matter what but you know what I mean.

Lots of great advice. The one I might add that we failed at miserably is understanding and appreciating mental health issues. I really recommend that you educate yourself and your partner on what to keep an eye out for and check in with your kids to see how they’re doing.

You can resist your dark urge too. That has a fun ending too.