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John Watts Young, 1930-2018
John Young died yesterday. It is difficult to imagine any other astronaut, past, present or future, having a career as amazing as the life that John Young lived. It was an honor to have known him.
Today, January 6th, marks the first day in human history where there are more deceased moonwalkers than there are living ones. I expect that it will take many many moons for that statistic to turned around. Kind of like Pluto's orbit getting closer than Neptune. You've got to wait an extremely long time for the previous order to go back into place. It will be interesting to see if the number of living moonwalkers reaches zero. That would actually be a very easy prediction to make. I'd put the probability that it won't at less than 1%. I hope a fitting tribute to John Young gets done. People like Neil Armstrong have a statue. John deserves something big. ~ CT |
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On Saturday or thereabouts, Stuf4 declared ...
John Young died yesterday. It is difficult to imagine any other astronaut, past, present or future, having a career as amazing as the life that John Young lived. It was an honor to have known him. Today, January 6th, marks the first day in human history where there are more deceased moonwalkers than there are living ones. I expect that it will take many many moons for that statistic to turned around. Kind of like Pluto's orbit getting closer than Neptune. You've got to wait an extremely long time for the previous order to go back into place. It will be interesting to see if the number of living moonwalkers reaches zero. That would actually be a very easy prediction to make. I'd put the probability that it won't at less than 1%. I hope a fitting tribute to John Young gets done. People like Neil Armstrong have a statue. John deserves something big. ~ CT You didn't add sci.space.shuttle. Could have been bigger. /dps -- "I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it" _Roughing It_, Mark Twain |
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John Watts Young, 1930-2018
From Jeff Findley:
In article , says... From Jeff Findley: Thanks. I have always accessed Usenet via GoogleGroups. Never through a newsreader. And Google has taken steps to degrade the functionality of this service. I expect this was motivated by their desire to drive people away from these forums so they might move to other Google-controlled forums where they can make a buck off you with their ads. I can also tell because your posts don't limit the width to 80 columns. Yes, it's a hold over from the "old days" when text terminals were physically limited to 80 columns in width, but it's still a p.i.t.a. to have to scroll to the right in a "real newsreader" to read posts that are formatted this way. :-P I have been using Eternal September as my (real, free) new server and MicroPlanet Gravity as my newsreader for years. Free is always good. Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on my end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working, say, a decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday I will join in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers. Ok, my next post will have the potential to stir the pot. But those who know me know that I don't let the psychological inertia of others prevent me from seeking truth. ~ CT |
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Just this Friday, Stuf4 puzzled about:
Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on my end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working, say, a decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday I will join in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers. Cross-posting in GG was removed (or at least made difficult) as a spam control measure, AIUI. I use GG a lot when I'm not at the home computer, and have since shortly after the Deja News purchase (and so for at least 2 "New Style" rollouts). It works pretty well, except when somebody makes showing the top-of-post the default instead of showing the unquoted parts as the default. The "overview" option is very useful to me, although once you click on an individual post you are no longer in overview. The efficacy of the search tools sometimes varies, but if you can find the tick mark on the right side of the "ordinary" search box, things improve. /dps -- "I'm glad unicorns don't ever need upgrades." "We are as up as it is possible to get graded!" _Phoebe and Her Unicorn_, 2016.05.15 |
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Snidely is guilty of mn.684b7e21b1785a20.127094@snitoo as of
1/13/2018 1:15:23 AM Just this Friday, Stuf4 puzzled about: Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on my end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working, say, a decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday I will join in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers. Cross-posting in GG was removed (or at least made difficult) as a spam control measure, AIUI. I use GG a lot when I'm not at the home computer, and have since shortly after the Deja News purchase (and so for at least 2 "New Style" rollouts). It works pretty well, except when somebody makes showing the top-of-post the default instead of showing the unquoted parts as the default. The "overview" option is very useful to me, although once you click on an individual post you are no longer in overview. The efficacy of the search tools sometimes varies, but if you can find the tick mark on the right side of the "ordinary" search box, things improve. Oh, and the native Google Groups I use don't have ads. (technical forums) /dps -- "I'm glad unicorns don't ever need upgrades." "We are as up as it is possible to get graded!" _Phoebe and Her Unicorn_, 2016.05.15 |
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From Snidely:
Snidely is guilty of mn.684b7e21b1785a20.127094@snitoo as of 1/13/2018 1:15:23 AM Just this Friday, Stuf4 puzzled about: Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on my end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working, say, a decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday I will join in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers. Cross-posting in GG was removed (or at least made difficult) as a spam control measure, AIUI. I use GG a lot when I'm not at the home computer, and have since shortly after the Deja News purchase (and so for at least 2 "New Style" rollouts). It works pretty well, except when somebody makes showing the top-of-post the default instead of showing the unquoted parts as the default. The "overview" option is very useful to me, although once you click on an individual post you are no longer in overview. The efficacy of the search tools sometimes varies, but if you can find the tick mark on the right side of the "ordinary" search box, things improve. Oh, and the native Google Groups I use don't have ads. (technical forums) Thanks for the info. There are effective ways of controlling spam other than breaking very useful features. GG broke many of the things that made it excellent. Like 'view as tree', exacting search, etc. ~ CT |
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John Watts Young, 1930-2018
Stuf4 noted that:
From Snidely: Snidely is guilty of mn.684b7e21b1785a20.127094@snitoo as of 1/13/2018 1:15:23 AM Just this Friday, Stuf4 puzzled about: Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on my end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working, say, a decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday I will join in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers. Cross-posting in GG was removed (or at least made difficult) as a spam control measure, AIUI. I use GG a lot when I'm not at the home computer, and have since shortly after the Deja News purchase (and so for at least 2 "New Style" rollouts). It works pretty well, except when somebody makes showing the top-of-post the default instead of showing the unquoted parts as the default. The "overview" option is very useful to me, although once you click on an individual post you are no longer in overview. The efficacy of the search tools sometimes varies, but if you can find the tick mark on the right side of the "ordinary" search box, things improve. Oh, and the native Google Groups I use don't have ads. (technical forums) Thanks for the info. There are effective ways of controlling spam other than breaking very useful features. GG broke many of the things that made it excellent. Like 'view as tree', exacting search, etc. View as a tree is still there. The advanced search options usually )(but not always) work well. There is debate even among users of "true newsreaders" as to whether cross-posting is civilized behavior or not (my answer: "it depends", and local custom is important). /dps -- "This is all very fine, but let us not be carried away be excitement, but ask calmly, how does this person feel about in in his cooler moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on top of him?" _Roughing It_, Mark Twain. |
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