Rutger Hauer, and so it goes. Also, Roy Batty isn't an "android", he's a "clone", but more like an engineered post-human. While most focus on his line about tears in the rain, what I remember most was a little before that. And as a writer, it's an excellent expose. Roy is asked exactly what his motivation is. "I want more life, fucker." All your characters should want something, even if it's just a glass of water (to paraphrase Vonnegut).
"Hulu might not have the answer to The Great Question, but it's cooking up something tHGttG fans may appreciate... if it does things right. The streaming platform is developing an adaptation of Douglas Adams' beloved classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, according to Deadline." Please don't suck.
More on the Planetary Society's LightSail 2 craft. (Grokked from Dan)
"According to Military.com, Wilson was speaking at the Apsen Security Forum when she remarked that the X-37B 'can do an orbit that looks like an egg and, when it's close to the Earth, it's close enough to the atmosphere to turn where it is… Which means our adversaries don't know—and that happens on the far side of the Earth from our adversaries—where it's going to come up next. And we know that that drives them nuts. And I'm really glad about that.'"
"The SpaceX rocket’s engine started for a short flight test on Wednesday — but the prototype did not move and an enduring flame shot skywards near the top of the rocket." Space is hard.
"But a pair of studies published Wednesday provides stark evidence that the rise in global temperatures over the past 150 years has been far more rapid and widespread than any warming period in the past 2,000 years — a finding that undercuts claims that today’s global warming isn’t necessarily the result of human activity." It isn't that the deniers just don't see or understand the science the people driving the denial movement have strong economic interests, and the followers have a strong ideological interest, in ignoring reality.
"He quickly found he wasn't the only person reliant on Paonia's water with a dry tap. What he didn't know at that point was how long the shortage would last. From mid-February to early March most of the town's about 1,600 water customers were issued boil notices, and eventually saw their water turned off for a combined 13 days." The coming water wars.
Elsewhere, "It technically began last fall when Hurricane Florence swelled the Ohio River, but really it was all the unnamed storms that came after her — one after another after another, bringing rain on rain on rain across the central U.S. until the Mississippi River hit flood stage this winter." Climate change, we have our cities and where we produce food all in the wrong places.
"What's a Mexican restaurant without guacamole? What's a hipster cafe without avocado toast? Some restaurateurs may be contemplating these questions this summer as the price of avocados has spiked to almost double the price a year ago." Fake avocados to the rescue.
"In an about-face, the Pennsylvania school district that threatened to place children in foster care over past-due cafeteria bills is now accepting donations following its initial rejection of those who offered help, a decision that left many observers puzzled." Oh, we're on national news and everybody can see how mean we are to our fellow citizens? I guess we'll have to be nice for a while then.
"Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation Wednesday days after demonstrators at the island's largest protest in recent history called for his ouster over a scandal involving leaked private chats as well as corruption investigations and arrests." We all saw that coming.
"Two sources told NBC News that Epstein may have tried to hang himself, while a third source cautioned that the injuries weren't serious, questioning whether Epstein might have staged an attack or a suicide attempt to get a transfer to another facility." The daily soap opera of news.
"Nissan (NSANF) said it will slash roughly 12,500 jobs from its workforce worldwide. That's more than twice as many as the company was reportedly expecting to cut in May."
"South Korean shares fell on Thursday after North Korea launched two missiles." Kim decides to help his buddy, by breaking the launch ban.
"'I couldn't care less about politics,' he says. 'I just want things in our town to be OK. I'm not asking for wonderful, beautiful or super. I'm fine with OK.'" The revolution in local Russian politics. THey're also starting to realize that… "'People are beginning to connect the dots, namely that things are so bad here not because the local authorities work poorly, but because they're put in that situation by the federal government — because the rot starts from the top,' she says."
"The US Navy sailed a warship through the Taiwan Strait Wednesday, a move that came on the same day Beijing warned that it would not rule out using force against self-governed Taiwan to block any move toward formal independence." The Cold War, I remember it well.
"Pettyjohn was leading a war-game exercise on North Korea. Typically, military commanders and policymakers use war gaming to test strategies and their likely consequences. But nothing about this game was typical. It was designed by women — RAND's 'Dames of War Games' — for teenagers from Girl Security, a nonprofit that introduces girls to defense issues. The partnership was a first for both groups; it's among a series of recent efforts to boost women's participation in national security." Ender? And besides the social implications of this, there was also this part, "Nobody won. Nobody ever wins in this simulation, which is why policymakers complain that their North Korea options range from bad to worse."
"'I'm not saying it would cause no irreparable harm' to migrants seeking asylum in the U.S., Kelly, who was appointed by Trump, said before the ruling. But, he stated the immigrant rights organizations had failed to show how many clients they would be unable to reach as a result of the new rule, how many people would be turned away and how many migrants would ultimately qualify for asylum. He added that both CAIR Coalition and RAICES had failed to demonstrate that the new rule would "greatly increase" the amount of time it takes to prepare for migrants' imminent danger interviews."
Meanwhile, on the other coast, "Hours after a federal judge on the East Coast refused to block a Trump administration rule requiring most asylum-seekers to ask for protection in another country before they try to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, a judge on the West Coast put a stop to the new policy."
"Donald Trump has vetoed a trio of congressional resolutions aimed at blocking his administration from selling billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates." Of course he did. And don't kid yourself, so would anyone in the White House.
"Speaking on Tuesday at a student activist conference hosted by the conservative advocacy organization Turning Point USA, President Donald Trump walked onstage in front of a presidential seal that, upon closer examination, appears to have been altered to include symbols representing Russia and golf." Hat tip to the pranksters. (Grokked from Dan)
"Mueller's hearings did not feature a telegenic star who could deliver a message as exuberantly as President Trump's opponents hoped." We'll see if the needle moved when the weekend polls come out Sunday night. While conservatives like to say just how boring it was, and that Mueller isn't the White Knight Democrats wanted, blah blah blah. The point of this exercise was to explain to people who haven't read the actually Mueller Report what Mueller actually found (and cut through the spin). If you watched it, they Dems accomplished that goal. They divided up the report and the committee members went through point by point and didn't really step on each others' questions.
"Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday ramped up pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump, saying that the House should put aside political concerns and get lawmakers on the record for where they stand."
"In deciding who would lead the White House in budget and debt-ceiling negotiations with Capitol Hill, the president learned a lesson from his embarrassing government shutdown earlier this year: Brush aside the budget hawks in his own party, including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, and focus on minimizing any drama heading into an election year… Trump looked to Steven Mnuchin, his longtime friend, 2016 campaign official and now Cabinet member who earned a new reputation this week as a political deal-maker in Washington and helped Trump postpone any risky financial brinkmanship until after 2020."
"President Donald Trump, his company and three of his children must face a class-action lawsuit in which people claim they were scammed into spending money on fraudulent, multilevel marketing ventures and a dubious live-seminar program." (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)
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