-- Epictetus (c. 55 - c. 135 AD), born a slave, Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known. The word epiktetos in Greek simply means "acquired", Discourses, Book II, ch. 1, § 22
TRVTH
Daily observations of TRVTH in the real world.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Educated
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Voyager 1
The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft's coding to work around the trouble.
It takes 22 1/2 hours to send a signal to Voyager 1, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away in interstellar space. The signal travel time is double that for a round trip.
Launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 has been exploring interstellar space since 2012. Its twin, Voyager 2, is 12.6 billion miles (20 billion kilometers) away and still working fine.
-- Marcia Dunn for Associated Press, "NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet" (23 April 2024)
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Soluble
-- Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Non-Compete Clause Rule
-- Summary of a new rule issued by the Federal Trade Commission banning the creation or enforcement of non-compete agreements, 23 April 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Small And Blue And Beautiful
-- Archibald MacLeish (1892 - 1982), American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress, as quoted in Richard Nixon's First Inaugural Address (20 January 1969)
Friday, April 19, 2024
Quiet Life
-- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), German-born theoretical physicist, Out of My Later Years : The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words (1950) Chapter 16
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Ought To Be
-- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830), English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819), "On Wit and Humour"