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The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it
  • Reminds me of how we sometimes export light pollution. When I first got to Afghanistan I thought I would be able to see the stars being in the middle of a desert. That idea was quickly made harder to accomplish by the massive light pollution coming from camp leatherneck which, along with the moon dust perpetually floating mid air, killed any chance to see the stars clearly for miles around. Base turned a patch of desert into a sprawling light factory in just a few years.

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    Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
  • You don’t need a clearance to use plain old .mil emails. Anything requiring a confidential or above clearance is on a separate network/domain. You are still releasing FOUO (for official use only) controlled information which can become classified higher if combined, but it’s not a spillage on the scale of say Snowden or Trump’s boxes.

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    [OC] Tokyo by night
  • Whenever I see these types of pictures of major cities it always makes me wonder about the sheer governance necessary to make it all function. Can’t even fathom what it takes to run a city of 20+ million.

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    How to keep your pc cool in the summer
  • Looks like Mayhem’s Pastel White cooling fluid. I mean it doesn’t look great running two systems on one loop but it could theoretically work. Still not going to get great thermals running two systems off one 360mm rad unless they run the a/c non stop. So cost inefficient….

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