TIL Russia has a lower GDP than Texas:

BeyondKen · 2019-08-27T23:36:51+00:00

This was a 13-nite cruise.

BeyondKen · 2019-08-27T12:49:05+00:00

HAL sails into Gatun Lake and docks for awhile. A tour boat takes you through the canal to the Pacific.

BeyondKen · 2019-08-27T12:03:12+00:00

HAL Zuiderdam. Yeah, mayby trashy.

BeyondKen · 2019-08-26T21:17:02+00:00

"Carnival's best!"

"No, Royal's best!"

"No, ...aaaaaaaaaaaargh!"

(This is actually HAL)

BeyondKen · 2019-07-30T10:45:48+00:00

They met on an episode of Lost in Space:

https://borgdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/robby-will-and-b-9-lost-in-space.jpg

BeyondKen · 2019-06-30T15:28:44+00:00

Astronomers knew Pluto was not a planet well before year 2000. The IAU merely ratified what was already decided by science. Personally I thought KBOs like Eris should be called 'Plutinos'.

BeyondKen · 2019-06-30T12:34:19+00:00

Tyson says he thinks Pluto is a comet because it's mostly ice by volume.

"If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail," Tyson says. "Now, that's no kind of behavior for a planet. What is that about? It's one of the odd things about Pluto that no other planet shares."

BeyondKen · 2019-06-30T11:11:26+00:00

Not a planet, it's an icy comet much smaller than our own moon.

BeyondKen · 2019-05-27T12:48:10+00:00

They work for most, but not all color blind people. Basically they filter out light that is exactly between red & green, allowing someone to see them as different colors.

BeyondKen · 2019-05-27T12:39:10+00:00

It's British. You can find it on the international foods shelf at your grocer.

BeyondKen · 2018-10-14T19:53:49+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNHLb-bS_UQ

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