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  • vxxtoNot The OnionTexas Senate passes anti-solar, wind bill
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    3 hours ago

    Florida had the second-most-reliable power grid of any state in the US, with an average of 80 minutes of downtime per user per year

    Reading this is crazy. The last power outage I experienced was about 20 years ago.

    Edit: I checked, it’s 2.4 average minutes for me each year.




  • I checked different sources on shattners space flight, and I couldnt find one that calls him an astronaut.

    Heres the ones that meantioned the word astronaut.

    William Shatner is probably the most famous astronaut in the world. But of course, he’s not an astronaut. He’s an actor. The 91-year-old Canadian has been an icon since he played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek series, which debuted in 1966. But Captain Kirk, er, William Shatner, did actually go to space — last year,


    Again, this is a man who has spent much of his life thinking about space—not as an astronaut or astronomer or astrophysicist, but as a human being stuck on the Earth’s surface, struck with wonder about what’s out there. He explained what he had been wrong about:

    Even FOX news didnt call him an astronaut.

    I didnt check all sources, just the top 10 results.