>This past weekend two people were shot and killed on Ocean Drive by gunshot, and another person was injured.

I'm not sure I entirely understand Florida - is there any other way to get shot and killed that somehow doesn't involve gunshots?

Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience usually comes from bad judgment...

It can't possibly be a scam - the company has ties to law enforcement!

>As with any Kickstarter, product shipment is not guaranteed, and there is little if any recourse if the project goes bad. However, given that the company has ties to law enforcement, they are likely motivated to ship the product, and not defraud backers.

/s

Or, to quote Justice Elena Kagan:

>I think Kafka would have loved this. Cruz[the defendant] loses his Simmons claims on direct appeal because the Arizona courts say point-blank Simmons has never applied in Arizona. And then he loses the next time around because the Arizona courts say Simmons always applied in California. I mean, tails you win, heads I lose, whatever that expression is? I mean, how—how can you run a railroad that way?

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He obviously had a change of heart later - as Secretary of State he proposed and implemented the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Germany and the rest of Europe after the war.

This seems to be the 'before' picture. I love the poorly-done "METAL ROOFING" sign in both pictures; I wonder if they're the people responsible for this.

It's a lovely story; it and Omelas bring a tear to my eye each time I read them. It would be best to read it after reading Dispossessed so you know just who Odo is and what a change she made in her world, but it's a treasure on its own.

Edit: I'm re-reading it now, and this jumped out at me as relevant to the theme of Omelas:

>There would not be slums like this, if the Revolution prevailed. But there would be misery. There would always be misery, waste, cruelty. She had never pretended to be changing the human condition, to be Mama taking tragedy away from the children so they won't hurt themselves. Anything but. So long as people were free to choose, if they chose to drink flybane and live in sewers, it was their business. Just so long as it wasn't the business of Business, the source of profit and the means of power for other people.

It's possible that you could be mixing it up with her story The Day Before the Revolution that describes Odo, the woman who started the anarchist revolution at the heart of The Dispossessed. In her introduction to the story in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, LeGuin describes Odo as "one of the ones who walked away from Omelas." (Though she clearly means that in a very figurative sense; it's not at all set in the same world as Omelas.)

Also in the introduction to the story in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, where she ties the origin to James's The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life. She quotes this paragraph:

>Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

Right after that she quotes another bit from the same essay, which I've always loved:

>All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

She goes on to say "The application of those two sentences to this story, and to science fiction, and to all thinking about the future, is quite direct. Ideals as "the probable causes of future experience" - that is a subtle and an exhilarating remark!"

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Save the chubby unicorns!

Source.

Edit: If you want 747s, there's always Joni Mitchell:

>I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel to shower off the dust
And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust
I dreamed of 747s over geometric farms
Dreams Amelia, dreams and false alarms

“I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.”

Bill Moyers

Time to start treating corporations like people...

This was a great writeup, but I especially enjoyed the Charybdis and Scylla illustration on p28. More whimsey than I was expecting in a NASA publication, which is wonderful!

It's a tradition as old as reddit itself! And with all the excitement about JWST it's easy to forget that ground-based telescopes are still a thing.

It's not space-based - it's going into an observatory in northern Chile.

I know it sounds euphemistic, but we don't know what kind of malfunction he had. It could be that the parachute opened but fouled somehow, leading to something that could reasonably be called a 'hard landing'. That happened to my brother once; he survived but tore some muscles after a landing that was indeed hard.