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25 Oct 2018, 9:39 am

That 2/11/2000 was the last time all living humans were on earth at the same time. Ever since the ISS have been occupied continuously.

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25 Oct 2018, 11:08 am

SaveFerris wrote:

Ever since the ISS have been occupied continuously.

Might not be for much longer, following the failure of the recent Soyuz launch. The astronauts already up there can be supplied by unmanned craft, and there's a capsule docked to the ISS so that they can come home; but there's currently no way to get anyone new up there while Soyuz is grounded, and all the Western private space-tech companies keep having to postpone their manned programmes. The ISS could end up having to be abandoned completely if this state of affairs lasts too long.

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25 Oct 2018, 11:13 am

My late maternal grandfather played the song “Rye Whisky” on the banjo.

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25 Oct 2018, 11:21 am

Trogluddite wrote:

SaveFerris wrote:

Ever since the ISS have been occupied continuously.

Good update , cheers Trogluddite

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25 Oct 2018, 12:09 pm

We are more likely to suffer a fatal injury from a rogue golf ball than by a coyote.

Of course, seeing how Wile E. Coyote has never been able to catch the Road Runner, I'm not surprised. :lol:

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26 Oct 2018, 4:56 am

Skilpadde wrote:

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kazanscube wrote:

I've learned that if your not voting in every single damned election that, you can wind up being considered inactive. How absurd

In Australia you usually get fined for it.

That's insane! How much would a person get fined for not voting?

[EDIT] It depends. For a federal election, the fine is just $20. For a state or local council election, it depends on which state you live in. I live in Queensland, and the fine for not voting in a state or local council election here was $126.15 as of last year – which appears to be the highest in the country.

I got fined once for not voting. I was working on the same day we had a local council election one year, so I'd planned to go to a polling station to vote on my way back home. But after work I was so tired that I completely forgot about it and went straight home. Sure enough, a fine came in the mail a few weeks later. Cost me somewhere between $50–$100 at the time, I think. Definitely learned my lesson!

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26 Oct 2018, 11:05 am

^ wow, that's steep punishment for not voting! Doesn't seem right to me....

Today I learned that the fennec fox is 30-40 cm long and weighs up to 1,5 kilos

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26 Oct 2018, 11:19 am

^ and has cute cubs

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27 Oct 2018, 12:17 am

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27 Oct 2018, 2:25 pm

SaveFerris wrote:

^ and has cute cubs

adorable!

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28 Oct 2018, 3:55 pm

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28 Oct 2018, 5:37 pm

That fox is cute!

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29 Oct 2018, 9:27 am

So many worlds out there, yet there are people here on Earth whom still believe the world is flat! For crying out loud, give me a rubber mallet to knock some sense into these people.

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29 Oct 2018, 10:30 am

^Maybe they think they're on the Discworld?

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29 Oct 2018, 11:32 am

^and riding the Great A'tuin!

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29 Oct 2018, 12:33 pm

Skilpadde wrote:

^and riding the Great A'tuin!

Yeah, that we're all in an imaginary world...
Anyways, learned that the mission to Mars will not be for another 2 or more years at best

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