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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask theBuddha, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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The project is like many of these projects, in that it has taken many years. It came out of the European space agency as a concept in 2015 - which means people had already been working on it for years. That's kinda amazing. Many of these folks will spend their career on just one program/mission.

I actually got to help with a satellite's math. It measures the fluctuation in Earth's gravity. I got to go see it launch and my name was inside it in magic marker from the only time I was ever allowed in the clean room. The radiation will have long since destroyed the ink, so I can't fly up and take a picture. That was a project assigned to me as a grad student. I made no money, not even a stipend. They did pay for the bus to take us down to launch. I think we had to cover our own food and lodging. I'm not sure, as that was a long, long time ago.

That's as close as I've come to space.

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That's closer than I. My name has never left the surface more than in an airplane. Except when I left universe and was appointed the master of the universe. But I did not use a spacecraft

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LOL We hit the fucker!

We'll be studying this for another decade. Well, they'll be studying it. I mean 'we' as in the global us. This is just the start. We shall see what happens!

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I saw it zooming in. 14,000 miles an hour should knock it off course