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Tell me about your favorite special interest fact (hexbear.net)
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Mine is that some people don't consider viruses alive. These people are fucking stupid because giruses exist as do virophages. Like yes unalive things literally hunting other unalive things totally makes sense.

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[โ€“] someone@hexbear.net 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Only one country in history has ever developed orbital spaceflight, and then abandoned that capability: Britain.

And they did it because they trusted a handshake agreement with the United States that the US would always launch British payloads on favourable terms.

You'll never guess what happened with that handshake agreement!

[โ€“] Keld@hexbear.net 1 points 4 weeks ago

Only one country in history has ever developed orbital spaceflight, and then abandoned that capability: Britain.

What about Spain