Archive of entries posted on 19th November 2019

I’m No Rocket Scientist, But . . .

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. . . I’m guessing none of the people working on this project skipped many classes to protest climate change, immigration reform, the election of a president, or the presence of a chalk message on their campus.

How LISA Pathfinder Detected Dozens of “Comet Crumbs”
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Nov. 18, 2019

LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a tool for detecting ripples in space-time produced by, among other things, merging black holes.

This Day In Python: Nov. 19

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1979:

Started work on the new Python movie [The Meaning of Life].

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America is about to indulge in its own maudlin fascination with power and privilege now that Ted Kennedy is running officially for President.

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Have we not become as established as the Establishment we seek to kick? Are we not really licensed satirists?

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JC warns, splendidly, that “We’ll show them how silly a film can be.”

— Michael Palin, Diaries 1969 – 1979: The Python Years