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Probes from Earth have visited every planet in the Solar System, but to date Voyager 2 is the only probe to fly past outer planets Uranus and Neptune. When New Horizons was launched in early 2006 its destination of Pluto was the 9th planet from the sun, but when it finally reached the remote frigid world in 2015 Pluto had been demoted to a dwarf planet.

The two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn have been explored more, and most missions have been to Earth's close neighbors Venus and Mars. However, in all the years humans have been engaging in space exploration the other inner rocky planet Mercury has only been visited by two probes many years apart - Mariner 10 in the mid 1970s and Messenger in the early 2010s, and neither landed on the planet's surface.

Mercury is apparently a logistical nightmare to explore. Being so close to the Sun and speeding around with an orbit of just 88 days, probes have to go extremely fast to reach it and getting them to orbit the planet is very difficult. Landing on the planet presents even more challenges, as Mercury has no atmosphere and a slow rotation of 59 days. The temperature can vary from 400 degrees centigrade during the day, and down below minus 170 degrees at night.
 
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Mercury is apparently a logistical nightmare to explore. Being so close to the Sun and speeding around with an orbit of just 88 days, probes have to go extremely fast to reach it and getting them to orbit the planet is very difficult. Landing on the planet presents even more challenges, as Mercury has no atmosphere and a slow rotation of 59 days. The temperature can vary from 400 degrees centigrade during the day, and down below minus 170 degrees at night.
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Because probes would be 'falling' into the Sun's immense gravity well to travel to Mercury, the fuel required to decelerate then enter a successful orbit of Mercury is a magnitude more than getting to Mars. It would also be far more hostile to human life, and thus there has been little interest in exploration, however scientists theorised that in craters at Mercury's pole there are areas that are permanently in shadow and thus feasible for settlement.
 
In 1665, during the Great Plague of London, doctors believed that the illness was caused by deadly vapors in the air.
They thought that these vapors could be fought through exposure to equally foul-smelling vapors, so they told their patients to fart in jars.
When the plague reached the patients' towns, they could open their jars and inhale the gas inside.
 
Hawk Dork said:
In 1665, during the Great Plague of London, doctors believed that the illness was caused by deadly vapors in the air.
They thought that these vapors could be fought through exposure to equally foul-smelling vapors, so they told their patients to fart in jars.
When the plague reached the patients' towns, they could open their jars and inhale the gas inside.
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Hawk Dork said:
In 1665, during the Great Plague of London, doctors believed that the illness was caused by deadly vapors in the air.
They thought that these vapors could be fought through exposure to equally foul-smelling vapors, so they told their patients to fart in jars.
When the plague reached the patients' towns, they could open their jars and inhale the gas inside.
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Miasma
 
The kappa variant of the coronavirus is currently rustling a few jimmies.

In the 1995 epic Under Siege 2 : Dark Territory, the bad guy (Eric Bogosian) spawned a whole heap of "ghost" satellites to hide the real weapons satellite from Norad's sensors.

In a hail mary play - Admiral Bates asked an analyst to "Pick one" to target for destruction. He chose "Kappa".

He was wrong though. It was Delta that was the real one.
 
Larry Barnsworth said:
The kappa variant of the coronavirus is currently rustling a few jimmies.

In the 1995 epic Under Siege 2 : Dark Territory, the bad guy (Eric Bogosian) spawned a whole heap of "ghost" satellites to hide the real weapons satellite from Norad's sensors.

In a hail mary play - Admiral Bates asked an analyst to "Pick one" to target for destruction. He chose "Kappa".

He was wrong though. It was Delta that was the real one.
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craigos said:
New variant found in Melbourne sequencing

Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said that genomic sequencing of two original West Melbourne cases had revealed they were the so-called ‘Delta variant’ which is different to the Kappa strain that has dominated the latest outbreak in Victoria and prompted the current lockdown.

“That variant is the Delta variant, so it’s the B1.617.2 variant that is now infamous in India, and increasingly in the United Kingdom.

“It is a variant of significant concern,” he said. “It has not been linked to any sequence cases across Australia from hotel quarantine or anywhere else.

“We know this family traveled to Jervis Bay, and we are examining who is the likely index case in this family, and therefore trying to trace back, where this variant has been picked up.
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OK - I'm calling this now!

None of this is real. We are living in a simulation!

And what's more, the feckers are getting lazy with code reuse!
 

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Of all the Olympic gold medals the US has won in swimming throughout Games history, Michael Phelps has won just short of 10 per cent of them (23/246)
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Phelps has more gold medals than India. More fun summer Olympics medal facts...

- Malaysia has the most medals without a gold - 11 (7 silver and 4 bronze), with regional neighbours the Philippines on 10 (3 silver, 7 bronze). No other country has more than 5 without a gold medal.
- Even though the USSR ceased to exist 30 years ago, they still have the second most medals in Olympic history - Great Britain needs another 160 medals to overtake them.
- Kosovo has only 1 appearance at an Olympics so far, with 1 gold medal to show for it. By doing so, they have already overtaken larger countries that have participated for far longer, such as Bolivia, Republic of Congo and Bangladesh, who have never won any medal at all.
 
If any animal needed trade unions and improved industrial relations laws, it is the termite.

Unless you're a queen and you lay eggs all day or a king whose job it is to stay with the queen and mate with her, the life of a soldier or worker termite when they mature from nymphs to adults (termites have the egg-nymph-adult insect life cycle rather than the egg-larvae-pupae-adult life cycle) is to work 24 hours a day 7 seven days a week, never stopping. And termites live quite a long time for insects, some about 4 years.
 
Despite starring on hit soap Home & Away for decades, Ray Maher (Alf Stewart) and Ada Nicodemou (Leah Patterson) do not feature in any episodes together.
 

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Engimal v3 said:
Despite starring on hit soap Home & Away for decades, Ray Maher (Alf Stewart) and Ada Nicodemou (Leah Patterson) do not feature in any episodes together.
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you flamin galah

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Their characters used to live in the same house together, so it's a little difficult to believe.

I do remember reading something similar about Kevin's dad on The Wonder Years never having any dialogue with Winnie during the show.....but I've done a google search and can't find any reference to it, so not sure if true.
 
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Of all the Olympic gold medals the US has won in swimming throughout Games history, Michael Phelps has won just short of 10 per cent of them (23/246)
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If Michael Phelps was a country, he would sit 32nd of all countries in rank of gold medals.
 

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