Ball Lightning
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Read between September 7 - September 13, 2020
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I’m used to taking sacred things and turning them ordinary.
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and the clash of a range of ideas.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. - Lady Bird Johnson.
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“So then, to you, is weapons research motivated by beauty, or by functionality?”
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?Por los no dos?
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The lighthouse is always there, but you only see it when it’s lit.
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The direction of a man or woman’s life might be determined by the era they found themselves in. It’s impossible for someone to distance themselves very far from the times they live in.
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He has leukemia. It’s incurable. I suspect it’s the result of long-term emotional stress.”
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Uh, more like long-term exposure to radiation. I'm worried about Chen's remark about his hair thinning & then growing back. He attributed it to stress - but he also got away from radioactive sites.
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“A skynet!”
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No!
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SKYNET
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Stop!
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“We also considered using fixed-wing aircraft, which would make parachuting out in the event of an accident somewhat easier compared to a helicopter,
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The solution: The Kamov KA-50. The first helicopter developed with an ejection seat.
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The blasts of its shells were painfully loud, and though I wanted to cover my ears, when I saw Lin Yun and the officers joking beside me, as if the loud noise didn’t even exist, I was too embarrassed to do so.
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Ear protection is so ridiculously important. Legalize silencers. Wear ear protection often. Anything over 80 db, including kitchen appliances, should require ear protection.
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“You want to poke a thunderball with a long pole? Are you insane, Major?” Captain Zheng said loudly.
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“There’s lots you haven’t imagined, Dr. Chen. You can’t imagine the sheer oddity of nature,” Ding Yi said, cutting me off.
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Ding Yi is an ass. I don't like him.
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It was Ding Yi.
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“That’s just how you were, Xiao Yun. Once you got something in your sights, you didn’t care about anything else.”
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I think Yun is on the neurodivergent spectrum.
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When summer was over, I no longer covered my ears for hand grenade explosions or recoilless rifles.”
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Wear ear protection!!!
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This can only mean that there was another, nonhuman, observer.”
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Sophons? Maybe bugs? Microbes?