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Levers are very useful for moving objects that would ordinarily be too heavy. A lever is just a straight, firm bar – it requires a fulcrum to balance across. You manipulate the long end and the short end, on the other side of the fulcrum, impels the object.
You still need to do the same quantity [...]

As Tom Scudder has pointed out, 984 is a masterpiece. “Calls Self John Smith” writes
Comment by genuine parallel-Earth equivalent of comic-book protagonist desperately searching for this world’s equivalents of team-mates.
(Quite certain they exist due to mistaken assumption derived from advertising portrayals of such, too afraid of being exposed to possible supervillain threat to ask anyone [...]

A coalition of net pundits are promulgating a Statement of Principles asserting a right to engage in online discourse without suffering reprisals in meatspace. I’m mostly down with it and for all I know might be completely supportive, depending on what a couple of things mean. The statement:
A) Private persons are entitled [...]

Reader Jeb Winders tips me to a forthcoming pilot for a Battlestar Galactica prequel, called Caprica:
“Caprica” will be set more than 50 years prior to the events of “Battlestar Galactica” and focus on the lives of two families — the Adamas (ancestors of future Galactica commander William) and the Graystones. Humankind’s Twelve Colonies are at [...]

“Troop reductions on the way” again/still.