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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I lived for two years in Cameroon when I was a kid (around 4-5 years old), we were regularly spending time with another family who had kids and the same age.

    Fast forward 15 years later, I’m 19 entering university in a totally new city in France. The first day every student is sitting in the amphitheater and they call the name of every student.

    When they call the last name of the person close to me I recognize the name so I use it as an ice breaker to start a conversation saying that I knew a family with his name in Cameroon when I was a kid … He says that yeah he lived in Cameroon as a kid at the same time as I did, so here we go we found each other again 15 years later !












  • I can guarantee if the story is true or not but my father talked regularly about a neighbor that he knew when he was a kid.

    The neighbor was a ballet dancer above 2m tall and was driving an old school mini.

    To be able to fit in it he removed the front seat and was driving sitting in the back seat.





  • I don’t know where you found this number, the commercial crew contract was awarded by NASA in September 2014 to SpaceX and Boeing (Boeing getting twice the amount of money than SpaceX). It was expected that two crew capsule would be certified by NASA in 2017.

    SpaceX only certified the capsule Crew Dragon with a crewed launch in 2020, so 3 years delay. In the mean time NASA is still waiting for Boeing to do its first crewed Starliner launch.

    There is plenty of reason to hate Musk but people at SpaceX did accomplish great things.

    Without SpaceX NASA would still be relying on Soyuz to send astronauts to the ISS.