The more I read about what Nico put himself through to win that championship, the more I think retiring immediately after was the right call. Good for him lol
The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to Israel, per deployment order leaked to me.
The deployment is tied to new US-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran.
https://t.co/HU5yWUCpCN
Aww man. Tom Kane passed away. That’s a major loss right there.
Thank you for a tremendous career and your awesome contribution to a galaxy far, far away.
“The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”
In short we can have:
$1.500 T Military & decimated NASA
or
$1.494 T Militrary & funded NASA
(or my secret 3rd option)
$1.300 T Military & NASA 10x expansion
Look closely. Between these two moments, our species has performed miracles. We have mapped the blueprint of life within our own DNA. We have built “brains” of silicon that can outthink their creators. We have pushed back the darkness of disease. Infant mortality has plummeted, and millions of children who would have been lost to the earth in 1972 are today alive, dreaming, and contributing to the global chorus. We have sent robotic emissaries to the edge of the interstellar dark and peered back at the beginning of time itself through mirrors of gold.
Technologically, we are a different species. We are more connected, more informed, and more capable than any ancestor could have imagined in their wildest fever dreams.
And yet, look again.
From this distance, the borders remain invisible. You cannot see the “holy” ground over which we spill the blood of our children. You cannot see the walls we build to keep our neighbors out or the ideological trenches we dig to bury our common humanity. Despite our leap from vacuum tubes to artificial intelligence, we remain haunted by the same ancient tribalisms. We use 21st century technology to prosecute Bronze Age grudges.
We have changed the climate of our world, but we have yet to change the climate of our hearts. We are still a toddler civilization, playing with matches in a library of irreplaceable wonders.
The contrast is our great paradox. We have the power of gods, but we still possess the temperaments of the territorial primates from which we rose. We have learned to fly between worlds, but we are still struggling to learn how to walk together on this one.
My girlfriend had to educate me as to why only now, +50 years since Apollo 17, we are sending people to the moon again and honestly I'm getting a little emotional the more I think about this
NASA could spend 1.5 trillion dollars on rockets going up into space and down again for a year and I'd consider that a more meaningful and worthwhile investment than whatever we're doing in the Middle East.