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Sympthsical

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12. It was butt clenching

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Original post)

Sat Dec 25, 2021, 09:41 AM

Dec 2021

The whole mission until it unfolds and is operational is, really.

Still, feels like I've been following this thing my entire adult life. Set an alarm and watched.

Only a few hundred points of failure left to go!

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It was butt clenching Sympthsical Dec 2021 #12