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Secret Santa!

It's horrible, and they are making it even worse with all those new races added to the calendar. On top of all the crazy working hours, constant traveling and stress, they aren't even paid well, except for the senior roles.

Love this...

A must-read. Very sobering piece from a F1 mechanic.

Weird. When I click on the symbol there in top right corner: It shows me an option to click on "My List": And when I do, it shows my list... Maybe Netflix just hates you

If you click on your account icon on the top right and select My List from there, is it still not showing?

Christian Horner has signed a new contract, will remain team principal at least until 2026. Reportedly, a new deal is being prepared for Max, too. His current contract runs until the end of 2023.

Well-preserved dinosaur embryo fossil has been discovered in China. Very interesting Twitter thread about it:

According to today's data, 7080 beds in total (including 745 mechanical ventilation beds) in England are taken up by confirmed COVID patients. I couldn't find daily data for total bed occupancy, but here are the numbers from the latest monthly report: So the 5% figure looks about right (but about 20% occupancy for mechanical ventilation beds).

Bet SirBalon would love them...

It's Stan, I heard he puts football above F1 title deciding season finale

Arthritis or some other rheumatic disorder, potentially? Seeing an orthopedic specialist or a rheumatologist could be an option.

Nope, Porsche...

Audi intends to confirm its plans to enter F1 early next year. https://www.racefans.net/2021/12/20/audi-tells-fia-it-intends-to-confirm-f1-entry-early-next-year/

Looks bloody fantastic.

That's what I think every time I see it, too A friggin Star Destroyer

Doesn't matter - once you've done it once, you're damaged forever...

You just listened too much of Russian Doomer music

Not really into pixel art, but can confirm this looks like an authentic every Soviet child's memory

You mean linguistically-challenged British peasants...

Is that supposed to look like "We're sucking dick?"

Explain

Think it deserves a separate topic... James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest and most powerful space science telescope ever constructed. Remember the Hubble Space Telescope? Well, JWST is designed to observe a part of space and time never seen before, the epoch when the very first stars and galaxies formed over 13.5 billion years ago. In order to do this, Webb will have a much larger primary mirror (6.5m diameter) than Hubble, giving it more light-gathering power. It also will have infrared instruments with longer wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity than Hubble. Finally, Webb will operate much farther from Earth, maintaining its extremely cold operating temperature, stable pointing and higher observing efficiency than with the Earth-orbiting Hubble. The Webb mission, an international partnership of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency, will explore every phase of cosmic history – from within the solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe, and everything in between. JWST will also be a powerful tool for studying the nearby universe. Scientists will use it to study planets and other bodies in our solar system to determine their origin and evolution and compare them with exoplanets, planets that orbit other stars. It will also observe exoplanets located in their stars’ habitable zones, the regions where a planet could harbor liquid water on its surface, and can determine if and where signatures of habitability may be present. Using a technique called transmission spectroscopy, the observatory will examine starlight filtered through planetary atmospheres to learn about their chemical compositions. JWST is targeted to launch at 12:20 p.m. GMT Friday, Dec. 24, on an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America. Weather-related delays are possible, a new update should be released on December 21st.

As expected.