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We're number two! We're number two!
mcfly —
6/21/2016 5:39:05 AM
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Get used to chanting it.
China takes the supercomputing lead
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We're number two! We're number two!
- mcfly -
6/21/2016 5:39:05 AM
I remember the last time we were behind like this.
- bowser -
6/23/2016 6:07:23 AM
And behind in the fruits of those computers, too.
- bowser -
6/22/2016 5:51:12 AM
We're no longer #1 in telescopes, heavy lift capacity rocket boosters or particle accellerators, either.
- ER -
6/21/2016 3:08:29 PM
You can thank the Hawaiian protest industry for being second in telescopes...
- RL -
6/23/2016 12:41:08 AM
What about the Southern Hemisphere?
- ER -
6/23/2016 1:08:02 AM
Different hemispheres have different views of the sky at different times...
- RL -
6/23/2016 1:31:01 AM
Yeah, but the weather is terrible.
- ER -
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