Got cackled out of the BLIZZARD (Beer Loving Ice-Zone Zealots And Retired Defilers) Veterans Hall on Europa for walking in with 2 hands full of healthy fingers, they called me an "intactoid" and made me open jars for them for 7 hours straight
Europa? No, never been, stranger. You must have me confused with someone else. But if I had? If I had felt my skin freeze to my thermsuit? Faced down zealots in the icefields? And survived? Why, that'd make me an awfully dangerous man, now wouldn't it? Think on that, stranger.
knew an Ice War vet who made it off-world with most of his extremities intact, got his benefits, a cushy living-pod in one of those Venusian metrosatellites. But he could only get to sleep if he lay on the kitchen floor with the freezer door open. You never really leave Europa
Oct. 3, 1924: Franklin D. Roosevelt makes his first visit to Warm Springs, Ga., as he seeks out treatments for the poliomyelitis that has paralyzed his lower body. The 42-year-old was urged to try the waters by his friend and the springsโ co-owner, George Foster Peabody. 1/4