A bunch of obsessives scouring the sky for additional planets probably had nothing to do with it.

Ask anyone not wearing a helmet that got hit by a car or smacked their head on the concrete after going over their handlebars. Oh, right, you can’t.

I mean, you can. Falling off your bike isn’t universally fatal. Even bad injuries aren’t unrecoverable - especially when you’re young and resilient and you’re body is still growing.

But imagine telling a 12-year-old to take off their helmet and pads and go plow themselves into a tree, because it builds character. Why would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to this? Why would anyone advocate for this?

You’re not building up some kind of robust spirit of mind or body. You’re not growing as a person. You’re just being hazed.

Can’t believe The Onion is nearly a century old.

they incorrectly believe that because they lived that there was no actual danger.

Also, incorrectly believed that they were the ones on the bicycle.

For every kid doing this right, there were ten that did it wrong and fell over.

For every ten that did it wrong, there were another ten laughing up their sleeves and then… putting on a helmet and pads because they didn’t want to end up in traction (or because their parents were yelling at them to be safe).

Apollo 11 made it to the moon and back with the computer power of a Dollar Tree hand held calculator

I think it was the rockets doing most of the lifting

Artemis II never landed on the moon. It was just a flyby. This makes it more equivalent to Apollo 10 and the famous exchange

Stafford: “Oh—who did it? … Give me a napkin quick. There’s a turd floating through the air”.

Young: “I didn’t do it. It ain’t one of mine”.

Cernan: “I don’t think it’s one of mine”.

Stafford: “Mine was a little more sticky than that. Throw that away”.

Cernan (later): “Here’s another goddam turd. What’s the matter with you guys?”

Combining French snobbery with Linux snobbery could set off some kind of chain reaction.

How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L’nux?

He’s just trying to find the shrine that lets him de-age seven years.

That’s what my government tells me

Or deep on the hook for the O&G industry.

Israel is basically a military outpost for the US in the middle east.

Sitting politicians have described it as our biggest aircraft carrier.

No no no. China is Fake News. They don’t even make cars. If they made cars, I would have seen Chinese cars driving around in America.

“China Battery!” typically trips everyone’s “Fake News! Evil Company! Communists Killed 100 Billion People!” alarm

The way to safer is to reduce the amount of cars.

Hersey! Blasphemy! Unamerican!

Ah, so they’ve already exploded, thus rendering them safe for use.

Missing the deadline undermines your position in the firm and marks you out as unreliable for the better projects and promotions.

I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just continue working your normal hours.

Some of it comes down to real social pressure. People work harder when they’ve literally got the boss at their desk saying “We need to hit Deadline X or Consequences Y will happen”. For people past their breaking point, I tend to see them work less. If you’re already on the job hunt (or if you’ve landed a job or queued for retirement or whatever), enthusiasm for doing your current job plummets. If you think you’re about to get fired, same.

But for folks who genuinely believe they’ve got a future at the firm - at least for another year or three - it often boils down to “Do I want to be stressed forever, or just get over this hump and survive until things die down?” Hitting the deadline and getting the project over the line typically comes with a refractory period of sorts. A slowdown in work hours and a more relaxed pace. Missing the deadline means even more work and even more stress and even more of my boss at my desk (or my boss’s boss or my boss’s boss’s boss) staring at my computer and asking why the thing isn’t done yet.