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David the expat sez: "Stack Exchange Rocks!" so, let Stack Exchange be Stack Exchange.

My goal is to spend less time in my "...snow white cube containing only the bare necessities, a computer, and a large library of treatises, maps, and precise scale models*."

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Did it take 3 minutes to reload a musket when the second amendment to the US constitution was ratified?
Oct 9 '19
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Where (if anywhere) were X-ray machines put on trains or trolleys to image "Everybody over 14 years old"?
Jan 15 '19
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Why did Jodrell Bank assist the Soviet Union to collect data from their spacecraft in the mid 1960's?
Mar 2 '19
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Where did John Adams write of the night he shared a bed and an argument with Benjamin Franklin? Did Franklin write of it as well?
Feb 18 '19
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Where was Carl Sagan working on a plan to detonate a nuke on the Moon? Where was he applying when he leaked it?
Aug 24 '19
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How did Taiwan participate in the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58?
Jul 14 '20
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Are tech workers in the Siberian city of Tomsk really "descendants of those sent to the gulags"?
Aug 18 '18
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What were the international space arrangements and scientific purposes Eisenhower spoke of in October 1957?
Jul 28 '19
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Did any Western consulates remain open or re-open after WWII in the same buildings in which they had resided in Wuhan, Hebei, China?
Feb 23 '20
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Besides the US in 1958, has there been a post-WWII show of force by any military in the Taiwan Strait (excluding Taiwan and China)?
Oct 4 '18
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How did the Apollo computers evaluate transcendental functions like sine, arctangent, log?
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What makes Ada the language of choice for the ISS's safety-critical systems?
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What aspects of image preparation workflows can lead to accidents like Boris Johnson's No. 10 tweet's 'hidden message'?
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Are there any satellites in geosynchronous but not geostationary orbits?
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If a massive object like Jupiter flew past the Earth how close would it need to come to pull people off of the surface?

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