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'Fun fact: The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-center by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place.'
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'First comes blood / Then we perish / Then comes Death in his Eternity Carriage.'
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'If you're really savvy, you can hide an entire set of illicit transactions by timing them to draw what looks like a graph inset.'
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'The most rare, top-tier eclipse photo would be the Solar Earth Eclipse, but the Apollo 12 crew's attempt to capture it was marred by camera shake. They said it looked spectacular, though.'
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'A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.'
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'Cesium-133, let it be. Cesium-134, let it be even more.'
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'𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓛 𝓲𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓪𝓫𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓺 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻.'
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'The Mercator projection drastically distorts the size of almost every area of land except a small ring around the North and South Poles.'
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'You know that asteroid that almost destroyed Earth in the 90s? Turns out the whole thing was secretly created by Michael Bay, who then PAID Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to look heroic while blowing it up!'
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'If you pick a low enough orbit, it gives you a lot of freedom to use a lightweight launch vehicle such as a stepladder.'
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'Astronomers are a little unsure of the applicability of this index, but NASA's Planetary Protection Officer is all in favor.'
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'Doug's cousin, the one from London, runs a Bumble love cult.'
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'Just think of all the countless petty squabbles and misunderstandings, of all the fervent hatreds, over so insignificant a thing as the direction and duration of a rocket engine firing.'
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