I just realized how easy it is to receive satellite transmissions after reading how I could get the ISS repeater using a handheld radio. I'm going to look into using the RTL-SDR to decode signals.
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"we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
But really I was just pretending to misunderstand the early test flights as a progression of sending larger life-forms, and that we should continue sending larger and larger animals.
Maybe there's a secret program that They don't want us to know about.
First we sent small animals into space: a dog, then monkeys.
After that: people.
And then we stopped. I expected that we would have sent cows, horses, maybe even hippos or elephants by now.
Fanfic is exactly what it was, or at least, how it started.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fifty-shades-of-grey-started-out-as-twilight-fan-fiction-2015-2
Maybe you mean that it got worse when it was changed to be original characters!
That sounds a little like testing matches "Yes, that one works. I mean: worked."
Well the pros and cons of the multimeter are addresses in the video! He uses a meter on a dead battery and it still shows a deceptively reasonable voltage when not under load. The built-in tester draws more current.
They are mentioned in the video.
https://www.plantsandpipettes.com/the-algae-expert-who-helped-crack-code-in-wwii/