jgf556

jgf556 t1_ja68v2y wrote on February 27, 2023 at 3:37 AM

Reply to Spotted up and down Mass Ave NW between 4th and 5th (and probably elsewhere) - someone screwed up by mr_grission

They used the S for Silver Springs

jgf556 t1_j1xbjcl wrote on December 28, 2022 at 2:16 AM

Reply to comment by hipoetry in Is the random anti-air missile system near Great Falls a part of some air defense against another 9/11-sque attack? by pwn3dbyth3n00b

I remember driving past machine guns on 110 for a while there.

jgf556 t1_j14ri6f wrote on December 21, 2022 at 5:41 PM

Reply to comment by cjameshuff in ESA's Vega-C launcher has suffered a failure in its first commercial flight by kdiuro13

Ah ok, didn't pick that up

jgf556 t1_j14545c wrote on December 21, 2022 at 3:16 PM

Reply to comment by cjameshuff in ESA's Vega-C launcher has suffered a failure in its first commercial flight by kdiuro13

Might have been the plume going over the first stage.

jgf556 t1_iy18tlv wrote on November 27, 2022 at 11:48 PM

Reply to comment by suffertunity in The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths (includes a focus on pedestrian and cyclist deaths in DC) by woulditkillyoutolift

Gadgets

jgf556 t1_ivicpil wrote on November 8, 2022 at 4:19 AM

Reply to Okay, I changed my mind and now I hate it. by Witches_Brew

Read this

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/17/daylight-saving-time-sunrise-sunset/

TLDR if DST is made permanent, there would be days when the sun doesn't rise until 9-10 AM in western parts of each time zone.

jgf556 t1_ivichua wrote on November 8, 2022 at 4:17 AM

Reply to comment by murphski8 in Okay, I changed my mind and now I hate it. by Witches_Brew

Winter Solstice is the shortest day, and also when the sun appears to reach an endpoint in its analemma.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/using-only-a-camera-trace-the-solar-analemma-and-plot-the-solstice-170739208/