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An unexpected phone call

Last Friday I was doing some research for my next article (it feels so good either writing or telling this phrase) when suddenly a message appeared in my LinkedIn account.It had been sent by a Pakistani process automation engineer that was working installing some electrical equipment in an industrial plant located somewhere in the south […]

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The great Fletcher experiment

Given my current fascination with scale modeling, I got a set of Polish made papercraft templates that will enable anybody with enough patience to build a 1:200 scale model of a Fletcher.

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The present

This story was inspired by a discussion thread in a sci-fi Facebook group.

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A mountaineer’s story

The Fitzroy massif features one of the most impressive challenges for rock climbers: The magnificent Cerro Torre. This impressive granite needle is 3133 m high, and you may think that it’s not so high when compared with either Mt. Everest or the K2. But its south face is quite remarkable because it’s a 2000 m […]

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