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  • Unfortunately with Trump being there, this shall not be the greatest launch, for he may plan to use this for his own propaganda campaign.

    What then, in my view were the greatest launches? Indeed, when the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched and Apollo 11 went up, that was a monumentous achievement for mankind.

    Unlike the Apollo and space shuttle missions and all who have went before, there is little scientific reason for this launch. It is space politics; all that money could have been used to build homes instead, to improve the general wellbeing of Americans, instead of enriching and entertaining the billionnaire oligarchs’ interests. But that is my own view, I s’pose.

    Had Americans’ wellbeing been improved greatly, the FPTP system abolished for proportional representation, and there been no billionnaires and media oligopolies, no conflict of interests, no wars the US was waging… the US might have faced a much more golden age of spacefaring.








  • Typically people don’t fall by their own, unless if you’re talking about the elderly (who are more brittle), or the very young (who drive on low tricycles to learn, and a fall then isn’t as bad). A bicycle also typically is much less fast than a car, so when you fall, the damage is also much less bad.

    By far most bicycle accidents are caused by other drivers (especially car drivers) not watching out or driving recklessly near them. Or because bicycling paths aren’t cleared/salted in winter.

    If you wanted to tackle accidents better, you’d prohibit smartphone usage while in traffic altogether for everyone (navigation excepted), and support separated, well-maintained bicycle lanes with protection rails.

    There’s a huge difference between falling and falling because a car drove you over. Don’t blame the bicyclist overmuch. Blame the carcentric infrastructure instead.







  • birdwingOPto196when the sunlight strikes rule
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    raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colours. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon.