Hello, my name is Jack

by on October 31, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I say the universe is better because of humanity. We’ve created art with no more reason than because it is pretty. We’ve sculpted entire worlds to be able to better support life as we know it. We’ve recreated extinct animals on hundreds of worlds. We’ve uplifted uncountable numbers of animals to human-level intelligence. There have been bad times. Times of war and destruction and slavery and all of that. But those always end and humanity blossoms like flowers after a long drought. We can make and do amazing things. And we make the universe a better place to be.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on October 30, 2015 at 12:01 am
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Twilight’s season four closing music began to play as the ragtag evacuation fleet set sail from Okinawa. Twilight and Dixie stood next to Empress Aiko as they watched the last battle, and then the scene panned forward with a quick advancing of days and nights to show them looking over the rebuilt Los Angeles skyline as they entered the harbor. Dixie welcomed the Empress to her new home and the credits began to roll. And then the series showed how the new Empress would forever change the roll of the Japanese Imperial Family. The footage of her walking through the streets of Los Angeles and actually conversing with the people under the credits was all real news footage recorded the day the Empress arrived.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on October 29, 2015 at 12:01 am
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The first orbital elevators were built as a single tether from Earth to orbit. You could send packages up or down, but not both at the same time. One had to be careful with the schedules. The obvious first upgrade was to add a second tether, one for lifting and one for dropping. The Panama City Elevator was the first purpose built dual-tether elevator. Yes, they actually considered two tethers to be sufficient back then. The modern Panama Station and her tethers would amaze them.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on October 28, 2015 at 12:01 am
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Some people say that humans are the most evil things in the universe. Their evidence is all the wars and destruction we commit on each other. All the species of animals we’ve destroyed. The way we’ve torn planets apart for the resources they hold. I can see their point. We’ve made a lot of mistakes. And sometimes they weren’t mistakes. Some people really are evil. But most people just want to live and be happy. That’s what everything that lives wants if you get down to it. And there ain’t nothing wrong with that. In fact that I think that’s what’s right in the universe.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on October 27, 2015 at 12:01 am
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In real life the Japanese evacuation fleet had to fight all the way across the Pacific. Former Taiwanese, Filipino, South Korean, and even some North Korean warships sailed with them. Along with the last American warships in that part of the globe, the Chinese fought them all the way to Midway. Twilight only showed the scene of the ragtag fleet leaving Okinawa as the last line of defenders fought to slow the Chinese advance. The pursuit didn’t make it into the show due to story focus and time, but the season set came with hundreds of hours of news footage and interviews with real survivors and the Twilight cast talking about the Fall of Japan and the subsequent evacuation.

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