According to Wikipedia: In May 2016, Google announced that it is prepared to begin testing different techniques to remove the toxic chemicals from the hangar. In May 2017, it was announced that the restoration of the hangar would be completed in 2025
Located inside the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, the massive structure built to manufacture and hold lighter-than-air craft such as zeppelins, known as Hangar One, remains one of the largest freestanding structures in the world, although it is now simply a skeleton of its former self.
For context, George Edward Gouraud was a Union American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient who moved to England expand the Edison Telegraph system, and later on to expand the availability of the Edison Phonograph. This recording was to show off what the phonograph could do for the British Post (hence the Postmaster General in attendance), and consequently made him famous.
This is really interesting. Honestly, listening to it without reading your comment, I would never have guessed he was American. He speaks English with an accent that reminds me of Indian people who have gone through British education. Same kind of accent as the recreations of Swamiji Vivekananda. Do you have any idea if that was an affectation because of his relocation to the UK, or if that’s a lost American accent?
Both, I would think, but I’m not a linguist haha. Overall, American accents were different when he grew up and lived as opposed to now, like you mentioned. He was also given a “gentleman’s education” after being orphaned as a kid, so I’m sure that helped curate how he spoke (especially drunk and during his first public speech lol). But when this was recorded, he had already lived in England for 15 years - so he naturally picked up some of the accent.
You and me both! I was homeschooled as a kid, which for me meant I got to self direct my schooling to a degree. One of my favorite things was my mom would let me just read wiki articles that I liked, but then I had to go do real research to confirm everything. Fucking loved that. Lol.
Bah. Semantics. “Closest” in the title while leaving out average or most often. Closest could also mean “right now” as well if we want to play with words.
What a stupid and misleading article. Water on the mills of “scientists don’t know what they’re talking about” conspiracy theorists when it’s comparing two entirely different things. “Groupthink” my ass.
Tldr: it’s just a property of concentric circles (and it’s talking about average distance, not the closest passing).
I’ve made a diagram using online Paint on my phone, which I think you’ll agree is nothing short of perfect.
Basically you’re the blue dot (could represent any planet), and the purple is the sun (the middle of the concentric circles). The brown line represents the distance you are from it. The red lines represent orbits closer to it than you. As you can see, the further out the orbit, the more of it lies beyond the brown line. Ergo the closer to the middle the orbit is, the closer it is to you (on average).
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