Today's xkcd makes me sad because I don't remember enough physics and math to make sense of most of these.
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Well, "heat" is supposed to be written "Δ" for starters.
But that's not as funny.
--Patrick
Opportunity has still not checked in after the planet wide dust storm that started over 100 days ago. NASA is still trying to contact the rover. In the meantime, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to take a picture of it during a recent flyover. (Gizmodo)Today's xkcd
"On January 26th, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared Spirit a 'stationary research station', expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on its solar panels forces a final shutdown."
Opportunity has operated 5554 sols since landing, having exceeded its operating plan by 14 years, 147 days (in Earth time). As of January 23, 2018, the rover had traveled 45.09 kilometers (28.02 miles) which is the furthest distance any vehicle has traveled on the surface of another planetary body. (Wikipedia)
GasBandit
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At first that kinda made me feel like we had failed something, but then I remembered we have landed robots on another planet recently, so I think we're kinda on track.
And rockets can land on their feet... just like in the old Buck Rogers serials.
Late Tuesday night, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent their final data uplink to the Opportunity rover on Mars. Over this connection, via the Deep Space Network, the American jazz singer Billie Holiday crooned "I'll Be Seeing You,"....Today's xkcd
"On January 26th, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared Spirit a 'stationary research station', expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on its solar panels forces a final shutdown."
The scientists waited to hear some response from their long-silent rover, which had been engulfed in a global dust storm last June, likely coating its solar panels in a fatal layer of dust. Since then, the team of scientists and engineers have sent more than 835 commands, hoping the rover will wake up from its long slumber—that perhaps winds on Mars might have blown off some of the dust that covered the panels. (Ars Technica)
https://xkcd.com/2178/
I don't know the exact date, but I do remember throwing out some old Ann Page spices from our pantry in the late 80s.
We hadn't shopped at an A&P since at least 1975.
I don't know the exact date, but I do remember throwing out some old Ann Page spices from our pantry in the late 80s.
We hadn't shopped at an A&P since at least 1975.
We cleaned out our cupboards to replace them in 2000. We found a can of cream of tartar from 1989. That gives me a score of... 73.33.https://xkcd.com/2178/
I don't know the exact date, but I do remember throwing out some old Ann Page spices from our pantry in the late 80s.
We hadn't shopped at an A&P since at least 1975.
My parents would win this hands down. Like a spice rack they had that was more decorative than utilitarian. My mom took it down a few years back and there were still jars on it that had the original 1970 spices.
I would have won for this age group, but I had a couple of bug infestations and threw a lot of 10+ year old stuff out about 3 years back.
That's why it explicitly states self-bought. I've seen military rations from WWI (no, that's not a typo, just one) still stocked as "usable".
Ha! I could do this all day long. My girlfriend and I joke that our “sweet spot” on Rotten Tomatoes is around the 50% range, because for some reason we always seem to like polarizing movies.
My choice: Burnt (2015) starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, and Daniel Bruhl. It's got 28% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I could go with multiple options, but I just picked one. I thought Cooties (2015) starring Elijah Wood was hilarious. It’s a comedy-horror about a zombie outbreak at an elementary school that only affects the kids, so the teachers have to band together to fight them off.
By the way, I also loved Burnt.
figmentPez
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1998, close but no cigar.
If we're allowing pre-2000 movies, then PCU (1993), and Little Big League (1994)
I'm having trouble coming up with post-2000 movies.
figmentPez
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Okay, found one: Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) 38% Totatometer
EDIT: Rim of the World (2019), not only a 25% from critics, but a 22% from audiences as well.
EDIT: Rim of the World (2019), not only a 25% from critics, but a 22% from audiences as well.
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Equilibrium (2002) - 40% on RT, but audience score is 81%, so not a genuinely unpopular opinion.
Godzilla King of the Monsters (2019) - pretty much the same divide in scores
Guardians (2017) (aka Russian Avengers, aka the one with the were-bear with the gatling gun) - 30% RT, no audience score... I liked it but as a cheesy goof movie, it had great potential but it didn't really pay off and they would occasionally just stop the movie so some character or other could have an emotional soliloquy that felt like a cutscene from a side-quest in an above average videogame. Near the end of the movie, there's an obstacle between them and the villain's special power source that seems tailor made with what we were told about a particular character's powers, and they even start going for it, then they all go, "No, that won't work, we'll have to do something way more needlessly complicated."
Godzilla King of the Monsters (2019) - pretty much the same divide in scores
Guardians (2017) (aka Russian Avengers, aka the one with the were-bear with the gatling gun) - 30% RT, no audience score... I liked it but as a cheesy goof movie, it had great potential but it didn't really pay off and they would occasionally just stop the movie so some character or other could have an emotional soliloquy that felt like a cutscene from a side-quest in an above average videogame. Near the end of the movie, there's an obstacle between them and the villain's special power source that seems tailor made with what we were told about a particular character's powers, and they even start going for it, then they all go, "No, that won't work, we'll have to do something way more needlessly complicated."