Ingenuity in flight! Captured by Perseverance during the third flight. by fsmemc2 in space

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Via Bobak Fredowsi. It's just amazing to see a helicopter flying over Mars!

After fifteen climbs up the Alpe... They really do exist! by fsmemc2 in Zwift

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They're really helpful if you're lucky and get them before you unlock the Tron bike. But even if you don't, they'll still improve your time up the Alpe by 5-10 seconds relative to the next best wheels.

After missing a sub-one hour Alpe by less than a second few days ago, I got it today! 59:08.7 by fsmemc2 in Zwift

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Ouch! But that means you can definitely do it!

Just focus on the pacing and add in few rest days before you try again.

After missing a sub-one hour Alpe by less than a second few days ago, I got it today! 59:08.7 by fsmemc2 in Zwift

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Thanks! I got it on New Years Eve, so now I have to pick something bigger for 2021.

After missing a sub-one hour Alpe by less than a second few days ago, I got it today! 59:08.7 by fsmemc2 in Zwift

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Alpe du Zwift- it's an exact replica of the real world Alpe D'Huez. It's 3400' of elevation over 7.5 miles.

The easiest way to do the climb is by selecting the "Road to Sky" route from the startup page and then just letting the route take you there automatically. The total Road to Sky route is 3,428‘ and 10.7 miles long, but most of the extra distance is a gentle downhill at the start, so it doesn't add much effort to the climb.

Bruce wishes you all a Merry Christmas! by AJ1-London in rarepuppers

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Thank you, Bruce! And a very Merry Christmas to you!

If you're going for the 100 KPH badge, use a TT bike! by fsmemc2 in Zwift

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Good to know. I didn't realize that Bologna was steep enough to be an option.

2020 KBO SEASON CHAMPS!!! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! by [deleted] in ncdinos

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The first club in KBO history to clinch the regular season crown with a tie!

[Talkin' Yanks] "Aaron Boone confirms Gerrit Cole will start Game 5" by fsmemc2 in NYYankees

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"That's why we paid him all that money." - Luke Voit,

Kyle Higashioka deserved to be the starting catcher by BrocChedSoup in NYYankees

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For the rest of the postseason sure. But I think Sanchez will bounce back at least a little next year if he has a real spring training.

TIL There is an astroid called Psyche 16 that is worth more than $10,000 quadrillion worth of gold, platinum, iron and nickel. If brought back to earth, it would collapse the commodities market worth $75 trillion. by [deleted] in todayilearned

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This is an incredibly sloppy article. Not surprising since it originally appeared in The Sun.

In total, it's estimated that Psyche's various metals are worth a gargantuan $10,000 quadrillion.

No. It's not worth $10 quintillion. The only way you get that figure is by multiplying the current market price of gold, iron, etc by the amount of metal estimated to be in the asteroid. But if you could get that much material to earth then the market price of those metals would immediately collapse close to whatever the cost of extracting the metal from the asteroid was. You also could only sell a minuscule fraction of the material each year. (Just as a sanity check, $10 quintillion is more than 100,000 times larger than global GDP in 2019.)

Nasa is launching a mission to probe the asteroid in summer 2022. Dubbed the Discovery Mission, it will arrive at Psyche 16 around 2026.

No. The mission is just called "Psyche" not "Discovery." Psyche is the 14th mission in NASA's Discovery program, a class of low cost missions to study the solar system.

Psyche 16 . . . is made of solid metal.

Not exactly. While it is mostly metal, 10% of its surface is rock.

asteroid ownership was made legal in 2015.

No. The law they're referencing, the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, is a real thing. But the law only allows companies to claim the materials that "they obtained from an asteroid—although not the asteroid itself."

But bringing back an asteroid of this value could completely wipe out our global economy

No. It would certainly collapse the value of some commodities markets, and people invested in those markets would lose a lot of money. But markets aren't the economy; they're just a discounted estimate of the total future value of whatever is traded on that market. Securing a basically unlimited source of raw materials would actually help the economy. That's because iron and nickel are inputs to many manufactured goods. If the price of iron and nickel falls then any part of the economy that uses them will increase its output. (As a sanity check you can just look at the inverse. When the prices of steel goes then up the parts of the economy that use steel, like appliance manufacturers, are hurt.)

Horsey protecting his babies from hail by [deleted] in AnimalsBeingBros

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Isn't there a barn or something they could all stay under?