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EVADING DUTIES. Richard Garriott’s announcement that he secretly hid some of James Doohan’s ashes on the ISS inspired Steven H Silver’s post “A Brief History of Space Smuggling” for
Amazing Stories.
…The first mission to orbit the moon was the Apollo 8 mission on December 24 and 25, 1968. Knowing that the crew would be in orbit around the Moon on Christmas, NASA wanted to make sure that they had an appropriate Christmas dinner and provided dehydrated versions of the appropriate foods. Deke Slayton went a step further, and despite an official no-alcohol policy, he slipped in three mini bottles of Coronet Brandy for the crew to enjoy. William Borman, however, confiscated the bottles explaining that if there was any subsequent problem with the space craft, it would be blamed on the men drinking the brandy. In a 2019 article, space writer Jeffrey Kluger claimed that all three men (it is the only Apollo crew with all its members still alive) still have
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DIGITAL DIAGNOSIS. N. K. Jemisin tries to work out what the symptoms of social media indicate. Thread starts here.
Like, one person got hella mad at me a few days ago because I m not into sports. A while back someone ranted at me for like 5 tweets because I said something good about an anime they disliked. Somehow This was great! turned into Why do you, N. K. Jemisin, hate women?! N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) December 17, 2020
In counseling we recognize lots of developmental stages. At one stage people tend to be very binary in their thinking: you re with us or against us, smart or stupid, perfect or terrible. They defer to whatever they decide is an authority, and that authority is infallible. N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) December 17, 2020
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DIGITAL DIAGNOSIS. N. K. Jemisin tries to work out what the symptoms of social media indicate. Thread starts here.
Like, one person got hella mad at me a few days ago because I m not into sports. A while back someone ranted at me for like 5 tweets because I said something good about an anime they disliked. Somehow This was great! turned into Why do you, N. K. Jemisin, hate women?! N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) December 17, 2020
In counseling we recognize lots of developmental stages. At one stage people tend to be very binary in their thinking: you re with us or against us, smart or stupid, perfect or terrible. They defer to whatever they decide is an authority, and that authority is infallible. N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) December 17, 2020