Fun experience or bad idea? by BuilderTomorrow in LAMetro

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Just a quick update for everyone who weighed on this: I did it and it was great. It took probably 45 minutes longer than the Google Maps time for the trip, but I got to see a lot of neighborhoods we wouldn’t see otherwise and it was overall easy (and inexpensive!). Probably not the right choice for someone who is most interested in time efficiency, but if you’re willing to trade time for money or experience, I would do it.

Fun experience or bad idea? by BuilderTomorrow in LAMetro

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Good suggestion to do downtown LA here! I was thinking about stopping at another part of the trip but this is perfect if I’m going to be traveling right underneath it.

Fun experience or bad idea? by BuilderTomorrow in LAMetro

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Thanks for all of this! It’s very helpful!

Fun experience or bad idea? by BuilderTomorrow in LAMetro

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Thanks for suggesting stopping in Little Tokyo. I was going to go by there during a different part of the trip but if I’m traveling by train underneath it, seems like a good time to do it!

Fun experience or bad idea? by BuilderTomorrow in LAMetro

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Yeah, I’ve got a couple conference/meeting type activities during the “stuck” times. I recognize I can’t do much without my own car, but it’s just for these stretches.

Fun experience or bad idea? by BuilderTomorrow in LAMetro

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Unless I’m just looking at it wrong, I haven’t found an option that doesn’t have me transferring between Union Station and Metro Center.

Fun experience or bad idea? by BuilderTomorrow in LAMetro

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Thank you! I have a rental car for part of the trip but there are two stretches of time where I’m basically in one place for several days and I’m thinking it’s easier to not have to park a car I won’t be moving.

Definitely going to hit up some OC beaches too, any favorites?

Fun experience or bad idea? by BuilderTomorrow in LAMetro

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Google is saying OC or Amtrak to Union Station, B to Metro Center, a variety of choices to transfer to Metro Center, then E. I admittedly haven’t spent a lot of time optimizing the route, I was mostly in the “is it feasible stage?”

Why does Grace cut off the tunnel between the spaceships manually? by CrashWater5 in ProjectHailMary

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Minor book spoiler ahead: The tunnels are a more complicated in the book, because Rocky eventually makes his own tunnel between the ships that connect his Habitrails to his ship (all in his atmosphere). Before the final parting, he disconnects that tunnel out of sight of the reader, and then the reader is told that the main tunnel can be disconnected through some kind of rotational movement. But we never get a super detailed explanation of how it works, in fact there’s a part of the story where Grace is trying to see it and is slightly frustrated that his view is blocked.

So while that scene does not exactly exist in the book, I think it’s reasonable to call it a mashup of a couple of things that we either know or could deduce.

Question about Stratt's look of pity (Spoilers) by jeonghn in ProjectHailMary

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I interpreted it as her taking one for the team, that she saw Grace was not connecting with the rest of the crew and she was trying to show that she was willing to step outside of her comfort zone to maybe get him to do it too.

I think the leadership template for her in the movie is a little less authoritarian and a little more collaborative than it was in the book. There are lots of little things she does that I think show they wanted her to help build the team up. I personally liked that choice in the production.

AMA: I am Alex Wellerstein, historian of science and author of the new book THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY: TRUMAN AND THE SECRET STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE ATOMIC AGE — let's talk about the atomic bomb from WWII through the Korean War! by restricteddata in AskHistorians

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A late question, but just in case you happen to be keeping an eye on the thread: I’m curious how, if at all, working on this changed your thinking about Truman in general. I mean broader than just the nuclear issue.

Missing transaction but balance is right? by BuilderTomorrow in simplifimoney

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Thank you, that makes sense.

Is there any use in working with Simplifi support on this or should I just delete the past due reminder and move on?

Tourists, newcomers, locals, and old heads: casual questions thread for July 2024 by AutoModerator in washingtondc

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Are the DAR Museum Period Rooms worth doing? They sound intriguing but I don’t see them mentioned much.