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There are some of you out there that really can't return the cart. Maybe it's your own mobility issues; maybe it's children, animals, or something else that you can't leave unattended in the vehicle; maybe you just ran out of spoons picking up your medical supplies; whatever reason--I got chu, fam.

When I turn around to return my cart, I always look for stragglers and bring them back. I'm forever alone, but healthy, so getting carts back to their "home" is the least I can do.

Wait Jon Bois did some research on this recently: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p8W5GCnqT_M and slips have happened since the Gros Michel went extinct.

So, your comment isn't the whole story.

Well, the one in the stores are real bananas. They aren't Gros Michel bananas, but that's because Gros Michel went extinct before I was born (and I'm not exactly young anymore.) We might lose the Cavendish before I die.

Supposedly the "banana flavor" in candy is closer to a Gros Michel than to a Cavendish.

Dermatologists have confirmed many, many times that a daily shower is unnecessary for healthy skin. Hair experts also don't recommend a daily shampoo for most people.

That said... it can be hard to tell when you stink (olfactory saturation / incrementalism)... so I don't actually have a shower schedule recommendation.

I think it's hard to justify since we've already done a successful asteroid rendezvous (a few, IIRC) and it's unclear (to me) what we could learn from studying the surface of this particular one or even studying from the surface of this one.

If we knew how to move it from solar orbit to terrestrial or lunar orbit and then use it as raw materials, that might be profitable. Or at least a nice engineering challenge on the way to profitable asteroid mining. But, I think the delta-V we'd have to achieve for that might me more than we are capable of right now.

I do wonder if we could put something on it and use it as part of a measurement tool, like how they can stitch together multiple 'scope sensors? I forget what the name of that is. Differential capture? Diffusion imaging?

It is an interesting opportunity, we rarely get such close flybys well predicted, but someone closer to the science / smarter than me would have to put together a mission plan.

Probably not every 4 years. After 2032, Earth will not be near the intersection point of the two orbits for a while. It might be decades before it's even close.

Yeah, I misspoke. I meant "will miss", we've got enough observations that we know the "keyhole event" that was a possibility is no longer a possibility.

Apophis missed the keyhole, so no chance of impact this century, sorry. It would be a much bigger event, too, about 10-30 times the energy.

But, this noise does remind me of 2004.

I don't believe it is a possible target given how the orbital disk of the asteroid intersects with the surface of the earth. That's of we don't change the orbit, if we decide that is necessary, we'll probably try to get a complete miss instead of just changing the impact site.

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Definitions are tricky, and especially for terms that are broadly considered virtuous/positive by the general public (cf. "organic") but I tend to deny something is open source unless you can recreate any binaries/output AND it is presented in the "preferred form for modification" (i.e. the way the GPLv3 defines the "source form").

A disassembled/decompiled binary might nominally be in some programming language--suitable input to a compiler for that langauge--but that doesn't actually make it the source code for that binary because it is not in the form the entity most enabled to make a modified form of the binary (normally the original author) would prefer to make modifications.