And after shooting down your package, ask a refund from Amazon!

According to the New York Times it looks like this is a Russian story to begin with: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

You can watch the progress of the AGC restoration on YouTube. Here's the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It's on Marc Verdiell channel. They are upto 15 episodes now and SPOILER ALERT:



They pretty much succeeded
It's still an ongoing project. Go check it out. It's incredible to see a computer being debugged at the gate level using a scope an jumper wires.

Someone already built a replica AGC using FPGA: http://mikestewart.hcoop.net/ so it's doable

The weakening and chaos in Western Europe can only be good news for Putin. Another victory for him? https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...

That sounds about right. It's true for about every food commodities. Relatively small shortages give rises to large prices increases. A shortage of 10% in produce can easily double the price.

This already existed in the 60's. There was a documentary series on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Those cars, to be competitive, were engineered to fall apart on the other side of the finish line. Without maintenance they would have failed. They are now engineered to last a few races instead of just one. Odds are they are slightly slower in one form or the other but it being a level playing field, it doesn't matter.

Tucson AZ has been fighting light pollution for more than 20 years. This isn't exactly a new fight. That said, it's gaining momentum. In part thanks to the IDA. That having been said, this won't be won until the general population sees light pollution as a bad thing. We aren't there yet but with more general public articles there are chances that light pollution becomes as well known as air and water pollution.

For what it's worth, some estimate that there are about 700,000 amateur astronomers in the US. It's not a huge number. But it's much bigger than the just a few geeks that some would make you think.

It's a good fight and it starts at home, you can do your part by turning off the exterior lights of your house when you don't need them. With 2009 the international year of astronomy, if you help now, maybe we all will get a better view of the night sky to celebrate the 400 years of telescope observing of the night sky.