Jeff Greason

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Jeff Greason

Jeff Greason

@JeffGreason

Would-be space settler who has to build the ships first

Tucson, AZ USA Katılım Şubat 2014
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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@jeff_foust 1/ I'm going to take a moment on this one, because this argument is ... wrong. During the Augustine Commission we had an actual study done. The argument is wrong because in a multiple launch architecture most of the launches are just propellant tanks and you have spares!
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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@plzcallmechrist Umm. No? E.R. Burroughs, R.E. Howard, R.A. Heinlein, Niven, Pournelle, C.S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian, Tom Clancy, James Hogan, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne, and many, many, many others.
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p.c.m. christ@plzcallmechrist·
The only books that anyone on X has read is Blood Meridian, Starship Troopers, Dune and Lord of the Rings. And the latter three, people just watched the movies.
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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@ScottMcCreaWest I don't play the "who is the best" game; I love ERB, Tolkien, and Robert E. Howard all together.
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Scott McCrea Adventures
Scott McCrea Adventures@ScottMcCreaWest·
Edgar Rice Burroughs was the Gold Standard of fantasy fiction from the Great War to the 1960s; then JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings was ‘discovered,’ and he became the Gold Standard. But, I think that Burroughs just might’ve been the exponentially better writer…
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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@jondelarroz The depths of their stupidity on how to handle Star Trek may be unfathomable.
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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@BaronDestructo Probably seen the TOS trek opening credit video, narration, and music well over two thousand times and it still brings a tug of emotion.
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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@BradRTorgersen @SCShipyards I love the fact that you can count the "tick marks" in the turboshaft on TOS trek and match it up to the deck plans and count how many decks they go through and it matches up.
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Sacred Cow Shipyards
Sacred Cow Shipyards@SCShipyards·
I kind of blame your intertubes - publishing dead trees is hard, after all, and you can just throw all the same information up on a webpage that costs significantly less - but they aren't even doing the "throw all the same information up on a webpage" part any more.
Andrew Evans@andrewtevans

@SCShipyards This is $50 new. Where are all the "new" Trek things like it?

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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@RealJessica How tone deaf do you have to be to admit that you treated your taxpayers as "captives" and you're regretting that now they're free. "Governor Hochul, tear down this wall!"
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Based Jessica
Based Jessica@RealJessica·
New York Gov Kathy Hochul is begging wealthy people who have moved to Florida and Texas to come back to New York and pay taxes. 🤣 "I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state. Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. OK, cut me the checks if you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home." "I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals. And I would say remote work changed everything." "There were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan and work in New York state. And they were captives to our state, they were going to stay. We saw that that's not the case. Wall Street businesses looking at Texas, they're not going there because they have a nicer governor. They're going there because of the tax rate."
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Fandom Pulse@fandompulse·
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy showrunner Noga Landau on the main villain for Season 2: "The villain of season 2 is not just a person. In a very classic Trek sense, it is more an impossible dilemma that we find ourselves in as Starfleet." What do you think it is?
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Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@TheLurioReport @WorkElizab I just missed slide rules by a year or two thanks to arrival of the electronic calculator and for the same reason never took a nontrivial square root by hand. But i certainly know what they are!
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Charles A. Lurio
Charles A. Lurio@TheLurioReport·
@JeffGreason @WorkElizab You think that’s bad? Over the past year I have discovered that no one, but no one below a certain age (certainly including millennials) has the slightest idea what a slide rule is. I keep on trying and I keep on shaking, my head.
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Elizabeth❣️@WorkElizab·
I'll bet you won't recognize this – but if you do, you've clearly got some serious expertise!
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KezzieSquared@KezzieSquared·
PSA: For anyone who wants to read extensively on the engineering behind the Space Race but doesn’t really know where to look, NASA’s e-book library (and Oral Histories Project) is a great start. It’s an invaluable resource for reading on general topics and vehicle dev programs.
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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@SandyofCthulhu Then out spake brave Horatius The Captain of the gate "To every man upon this Earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his Gods
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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@ColmWhelan @CivicNatalist My reading for pleasure is way down. I read about 500 pages of technical papers a week instead. But I still try to squeeze in around 25-30 "new books" every year, plus rereading old favorites.
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Colm Ó Faoláin
Colm Ó Faoláin@ColmWhelan·
@CivicNatalist I read about 80 books per year, now. It was up to 200 at times, but the internet got in the way as did owning a business. I've been reading for over 50 years. At the lowest estimate, that's 4000 books but it's more like 4500.
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Mirai@CivicNatalist·
Having zillions of books is just glorified hoarding behavior. Nobody can read more than a couple thousand books lifetime, you're either trying to buy them for archiving or you're a hoarder and the line can get super fuzzy super fast.
Hannah Ward 👩🏻‍🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer@HannahWardEdu

How does your home library stack up? In 2023 YouGov surveyed 29,000 Americans to see how many books they have in their homes. The results were disappointing to say the least. - 0 books: 9% (no books AT ALL) - 1–10 books: 20% - 11–25 books: 14% - 26–50 books: 13% - 51–100 books: 12% - 101–200 books: 10% - 201–500 books: 7% - 501–1,000 books: 4% - More than 1,000 books: 3%

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Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@hyprturing Yeah, a hard-wired analog neural net that translates English to text and recognizes a reasonable vocabulary absolutely could be done for modest power usage today.
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lachlan@hyprturing·
i think chips with burnt-in LLMs that run at a very low power will probably result in much of the world around us being unneccesarily intelligent. cheaper to throw that chip and some flash with a readme into an automatic door opener than develop firmware for it.
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Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@KeruboSk Have done so, but I hired a local guide, does that count?
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Sophia ❣️@KeruboSk·
Honest question: Could you travel alone for a week with no friends, no partner, just you? Or would that feel uncomfortable?
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Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson·
There really hasn’t been a better comedy series than Big Bang Theory.
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Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@RNCResearch Remember "Our Democracy" is a reliable tell. It means "Not yours, peasants"
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RNC Research@RNCResearch·
Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal says passing a bill that ensures only American citizens are voting in U.S. elections would “destroy our democracy.”
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Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@thenovelninja Probably through the first 70 or so _Hardy Boys_ by the time I was 6, then discovered Heinlein in the school library and never looked back
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Novel Ninja | Catholic Geek
Novel Ninja | Catholic Geek@thenovelninja·
"A couple thousand books lifetime"? Pretty sure I crossed that line when I was a teenager. And it only accelerated once ebooks and then audiobooks started becoming a common thing. Let's see. I read through 50-60 Boxcar Children books before I got tired of them; by the end I was reading one an hour. There were over 40 books in The Three Investigators. Between The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew there were something like 500 titles before I stopped, and I might be underselling that. Over 100 Star Wars novels, over 200 Star Trek. 70 or so Forgotten Realms before WotC killed the fun. And those are just the big series I was reading in my youth and teens. That comes to just shy of a thousand. And I was reading way more than just that. I usually went through at least five books a week even without counting assigned reading in school. I think I might have finished and gotten rid of more books than she thinks is humanly possible to read.
Mirai@CivicNatalist

Having zillions of books is just glorified hoarding behavior. Nobody can read more than a couple thousand books lifetime, you're either trying to buy them for archiving or you're a hoarder and the line can get super fuzzy super fast.

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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason@JeffGreason·
@jzpitts I agree that appreciation for the cinematic craft is part of the enjoyment. Same thing with _Star Wars_ (1977); the occasional lines where the matte show are part of the pleasure in the amazing (for the time) achievement.
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J. Z. Pitts
J. Z. Pitts@jzpitts·
I think to appreciate 2001: A Space Odyssey, you have to appreciate the craft and art of filmmaking. It is a wondrous technical achievement, especially considering the time it is made. It’s hard to watch it and not appreciate just how well done it is. The story isn’t terribly exciting or conventional, but it touches on powerful themes in an almost mythic way. So you also have to have an appreciation for the craft and art of storytelling as well. Of course, none of this guarantees you’ll like the movie. I have to be in a specific mood and frame of mind to be able to sit down and rewatch it. But I think keeping all the above in mind can help folks appreciate the movie.
Josh Barro@jbarro

The only thing more boring than 2001: A Space Odyssey is people who are really proud of themselves for appreciating 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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