Beautiful! Gorgeous! Plus moon terminator illusion again! Yay! 🙌

Charlie who?

Nah.

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It was very much a #CosyCatastrophe to me. Here’s one thing I wrote at the time:

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A swimmer is crossing the river before being intercepted by policemen in a Zodiac boat. The crowd is heard cheering when the swimmer gives the finger to the police just before they catch up to him.

Xkcd: Spirit (with the happy ending)

It doesn’t. What it does is filter out the less gullible, making them less likely to reply, leaving only replies from the easiest targets to be processed by the grifters.

Here's a hint, not quite a spoiler. Somebody who is expert - in both biking and particularly in mathematical physics - described this problem to me a few years ago, and my understanding is that there are plenty of interesting open questions that roll from it.

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"Trumpian policies are so great they benefit even Canada" ?

Remind them that Stalin wasn’t stallin’ !

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…or ANY of our current constellations, because even when they’re made of much longer lived stars, on a scale of millions of years constellations are dust in the wind. ⬇️

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Non un mineur, pas un mineur!

(J’ai failli faire la même erreur que toi. 😆)

Ça serait plus drôle si c’était une photo d’Anatoli Bugorski, vérifiant que tout est en place pour la bonne focalisation du faisceau…

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La version anglaise est plus détaillée:

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…et ça fait donc 10 jours de moins: 379847.

Ça fait 5 de moins que la réponse que tu cites, et je ne sais pas pourquoi ni qui a raison. 🤷‍♂️