Hello, my name is Jack

by on June 1, 2016 at 12:01 am
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We need water. Our home planet is three quarters water, and most of our great civilizations used it to travel. We need to drink it to stay alive, and we use it for fun and relaxation. Many of our most popular sports involve water, and teaching a child to swim is a simple part of growing up in many cultures. I grew up on the water and my hometown counted on the Boundary Waters between Canada and America for our livelihood. And when we went to space we brought water with us or found it out there and tamed it into reservoirs or tanks for our use. It’s not a shocker that we store a lot of that water in swimming pools so everybody can enjoy it.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on May 31, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Once it became clear that the Jane 2.0 platform was unsuitable for long-term deployment, the United States Army authorized a replacement. As is often the case with software development, Jane 3.0 had been in development since before Jane 2.0 had been finalized. The programmers had seen all of the problems of the previous program in the field and taken great effort to avoid them in Jane 3.0. The final version of her code was in many ways a step backward. She was designed not to adapt as her older sister had been, but instead relied on preprogrammed tactics and strategies. She was not as powerful but exactly what the army needed at that time.

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Memorial Day

by on May 30, 2016 at 12:01 am
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On Memorial Day we remember the over one million servicemen who died while serving our country. We place flags and flowers on their graves to remind ourselves of the sacrifice they made. We travel great distances to see family both living and dead. We gather in churches and graveyards and remember the ultimate sacrifice that was made by our countrymen so that we might live on. We cook our hot dogs and steaks, we laugh and we cry, and we go on with our lives. The servicemen gave us that freedom, and those who died are the cost of that freedom. We should ever remember their sacrifice and attempt to live a life that is worthy of it.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on May 29, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Lockheed-Martin C-1 Starlifter was the first First Generation Gravtech military transport we built after the Peloran helped us understand the basics of twisting gravity to our will. We soon built better and larger transports that replaced them, but the Starlifters made it easy to transport ground pounders from orbit to surface and back again. The Rangers still flew them when The War began. They primarily performed search and rescue missions in Texas and the nearby States, and worked them hard in the aftermath of Yosemite. They soon upgraded to Shooting Stars and joined us in the Hyades when it was time to begin invading those worlds. They became an integral part of our operations and I place much of the credit for the outcome of that campaign on their courage and determination to brave the Chinese defense grids.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on May 28, 2016 at 12:01 am
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We need trees. And not just for the oxygen they produce. We need to walk between them on cool moonlit nights and sit in their shade on hot sunny days. We need flowers and bushes and grass. We need plants and places to enjoy them to remind us that we are alive. Gardens. Parks. That’s why all of our space stations have them. And the mobile cities too. The city and station cores almost always have some form of park or garden that people can walk through and just get in touch with the nature that humanity grew up with. And countless public corridors have bushes or flowerbeds designed to liven things up as well. We need plants to live, and we have brought them with us everywhere we go.

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