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Some recent changes on Famabara

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You can now insert previously uploaded images and videos into posts and comments by selecting them from a list.

If, while editing a post, a user accidentally deletes a content block, it can now be restored using a button in the notification in the corner of the screen.

New types of complaints have been added: content created by a AI and copyright infringement.

The project rules have been updated.

A small profanity check is now performed when saving a post or comment.
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The real altitude of spaceflight

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Humans have been flying to space since 1961 - that's over 60 years now. These days, we even have tourist spaceflights. In sci-fi movies, people travel between planets, stars, and even galaxies.

But what is space from the perspective of aviation and astronautics? Technically, it starts somewhere between 100 and 122 kilometers above Earth's surface. The range exists because different organizations define the boundary of space slightly differently.

Is 120 kilometers really that high? The average diameter of our planet is 12,742 kilometers - quite a lot. Below, I drew a simple picture to show what a spaceflight looks like to scale:
See that tiny red dot? That’s our trip to "outer space". Not exactly impressive, right? For comparison, the International Space Station orbits at an altitude of about 418.2 km - on this scale, its point would only be a couple of pixels higher.

Human technology is still in its infancy. Legally, we can say we fly to space - but in reality, it looks more like what you see above. As for interplanetary travel, so far, only our robots have made the journey.
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An argument against moon landing conspiracy theorists

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I have a friend who believes in the moon landing conspiracy - you know, one of those people who think the Americans never actually went to the Moon.

He's convinced the whole thing was staged, masterfully filmed by movie directors. Arguing with him is almost pointless - he says every photo is fake. The fact that even Soviet scientists never questioned the authenticity of the American Moon landing doesn't matter to him.

But there's one argument that made him stop and think. No, I didn't manage to change his mind, but at least I got him to shut up for a while - confused him, so to speak.

The argument went like this: "So what, they faked all their Moon landings?"
Funny thing is, he didn't even know that the Americans went to the Moon not once, but several times.

Here's the list of all Moon missions:
Apollo 11 - July 16, 1969
Apollo 12 - November 14, 1969
Apollo 14 - January 31, 1971
Apollo 15 - July 26, 1971
Apollo 16 - April 16, 1972
Apollo 17 - December 7, 1972

So according to the "logic" of Moon landing deniers, the Americans didn't fake it just once - they supposedly faked it six times, along with all the photos, videos, and even the Moon rocks they brought back.
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A Naked Gun (2025) reference to the TV series Police Squad! (1982)

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The new Naked Gun has one subtle reference that doesn't point back to the original film trilogy, but much further - to the TV series that served as the blueprint for all three movies. In other words, it's a nod to Police Squad! from 1982.

In the final scene of the new film, everyone around the main characters suddenly freezes, while the protagonists themselves are confused about what's happening - yet they're still able to move:
This is a direct callback to the endings of every episode of "Police Squad!". That exact gag happened each time - for example, here's how episode two ends:
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The Same Typeface in Woody Allen's Films

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In his films, Woody Allen consistently uses the same typeface in the opening and closing credits. Midnight in Paris (2011):
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