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Students who enroll, pay housing fees, and physically live on campus are increasingly being funneled into online classes — raising a question about whether the on-campus price tag still buys an on-campus education.A CalMatters investigation found that roughly 40% of all California community college classes are now online, even though most campuses fully reopened years ago. The majority are asynchronous, meaning pre-recorded online lectures with no live instruction. Allegedly, some recordings at San Joaquin Delta College are more than a decade old.The pattern is not limited to two-year schools. The University of California and California State University systems are offering…

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Voyager 1 is currently drifting through interstellar space at roughly 38,000 miles per hour, more than 15 billion miles from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory antenna in Pasadena that still talks to it, and a radio command sent from Earth today will not arrive at the spacecraft until tomorrow evening. The light-speed delay one way is over 22 hours. A round-trip conversation, send a command and hear the acknowledgement, takes nearly two days. This means every instruction NASA transmits is, in a strict sense, aimed at a ghost. The spacecraft the engineers are commanding does not exist yet at the coordinates…

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The historical claim in the lede is well documented. On 1 and 2 September 1859, a coronal mass ejection from the Sun struck Earth’s magnetosphere with such force that telegraph systems across North America, Europe, and parts of Asia and Australia were disrupted. Operators in some stations received electric shocks. Paper caught fire from sparks leaping from telegraph keys. A few stations burned. On the night of 2 September, two operators on the Boston-to-Portland line held a conversation over wires they had disconnected from their batteries, exchanging messages on what they called the auroral current alone. The forward claim in…

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The great majority of data that crosses between continents travels through fibre-optic cables on the seabed, not through satellites. Estimates put the share at somewhere between 95 and 99 per cent of international traffic. Satellites, for all their visibility, carry the remainder. The word to watch is “all.” The figure is about traffic that crosses oceans, not every byte the internet moves. International traffic, not all traffic Most of what you do online never goes near the ocean floor. The video you stream, the page you load, the file you open are very often stored on a server in your…

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