Message:She's also a little thing, which helps as she ages. Less stress on her heart and joints as an 8 pound cat than on our 18 pound cat.
The world will calm down, or it won't. As a fan of the late Dr. Jerry Pournelle, I find myself growing more cynical as I age. You and Red have some firsthand experience with the space program, but Pournelle was right - we have a limited amount of time to get off this planet before we can't. The governments gave up, the billionaires are in a pissing contest and the public doesn't get it... (I've had too damn many "Why spend money in space when there's...." Oh, shut up, idiot. Your smartphone and the internet exist because of NASA, along with carbon fiber, Photoshop, MRI machines, cordless tools, lithium-ion batteries, and tens of thousands of other things we all use every day, and, gosh, wouldn't moving industry to orbit reduce pollution here? Oh, yes, I could go on for paragraphs.
Anyways, Skype and other internet messengers have made the world smaller for decades. I have virtual friends in the UK I've known for 25 years! Neat!
Yours,
IronMike
26-Jul-2021