See also https://lemmy.world/u/p1mrx
A gun is not a weapon, Marge. It's a tool. Like a butcher knife, or a harpoon, or... uh... an alligator.
when they could have went with wind and solar.
Eielson air force base is in the middle of Alaska. They get 4 hours of daylight in the winter, and minimal wind.
They should just turn the back of the plane into a ball pit and chuck all the kids back there before takeoff. The larger ones can take care of the babies.
I've been using IPvFoo on all my PCs since I wrote it for Chrome 12 years ago. Recently I made it fully Firefox compatible. It's useful if you have IPv6 and want to see which websites are on board, though it's a bit depressing if your ISP only offers IPv4.
I've found it particularly interesting on Lemmy, because it connects to such a wide variety of independent servers:
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I wouldn't call this observatory a "sun probe" because the L1 point is still 0.99 AU from the sun. For comparison, the Parker Solar Probe is expected to reach 0.046 AU.