“Religious war has signified the greatest progress of the masses because it proves that they have begun to treat concepts with respect.”
—The Gay Science, §144
—The Gay Science, §144
A Falcon 9 Moon : Illuminating planet Earth's night, full moons can have many names. This year the last full moon of northern hemisphere summer was on September 2, known to some as the Full Corn Moon. A few days earlier on August 30 this almost full moon rose just before sunset though, shining through cloudy skies over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida's Space Coast. A well-timed snapshot caught the glare of rocket engines firing below the lunar disk, a Falcon 9 rocket's first stage successfully returning to Cape Canaveral's landing zone 1. About 9 minutes earlier, the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket had launched the SAOCOM 1B satellite toward polar orbit. The fourth launch for this reusable Falcon 9 first stage, it was the first launch to a polar orbit from Cape Canaveral since 1969.
Forwarded from tomrum
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.
- Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel
- Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel
“Where someone rules, there are masses. Where we find masses, we also find a need to be enslaved. Where men are enslaved, there are a few individuals. These individuals are opposed by herd instincts and conscience.”
—The Gay Science, §149 (edited excerpt).
—The Gay Science, §149 (edited excerpt).
'God made the Catholics and the armalite made us equal'.
In the early stages of the Troubles, during the period 1969–1972, the Provisional IRA was poorly armed, using mostly mostly of pre-World War II small arms. In 1972, the IRA obtained a large shipment of arms from the US, particularly Armalite rifles. According to Brendan Hughes, a key figure in the Belfast Brigade, the IRA smuggled small arms from the United States by sea on Queen Elizabeth 2 from New York via Southampton, then on to Belfast. The Armalite rifle in was found to be very well suited for guerrilla warfare as its small size and folding stock meant that it was easy to conceal, it went on to be a symbol of its armed campaign.
In the early stages of the Troubles, during the period 1969–1972, the Provisional IRA was poorly armed, using mostly mostly of pre-World War II small arms. In 1972, the IRA obtained a large shipment of arms from the US, particularly Armalite rifles. According to Brendan Hughes, a key figure in the Belfast Brigade, the IRA smuggled small arms from the United States by sea on Queen Elizabeth 2 from New York via Southampton, then on to Belfast. The Armalite rifle in was found to be very well suited for guerrilla warfare as its small size and folding stock meant that it was easy to conceal, it went on to be a symbol of its armed campaign.