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Reminds me of a science fiction story. A regular type guy happens to look like a big star. The star sues the regular guy for copywrite infringement

People are downvoting you, I assume because they think you are lauding some other east Asian billionaire.

That’s a good story. My family moved into a big apartment complex when I was in 6th Grade. There was a big laundry room in the basement and somehow I became the Laundry Czar of my family. First good paying job I got I started having it done for me.

True story.

One of George W. Bush’s friends was telling a story about the future President. He was a recent college graduate and came to her house with a load of laundry, because he couldn’t figure out how to clean his own stuff.

Not exactly the Lensmen, but a really good and underrated book.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-guns-above-robyn-bennis/c421005cea8a54ee?ean=9780765388773&next=t

Airships in the Napoleonic Era. The author does a great job of engineering the ships. Pretty much the only 'fictional" element is that they have access to unlimitied amounts of helium.

Thank you very much.

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There’s a science fiction series called The Lensmen by ‘Doc’ E.E. Smith. Big influence on Star Wars and other space operas. In one book a human is preparing to visit one of the most dangerous civilizations in the Galaxy. Super-special, quadruple strength armored suit he hopes will be strong enough to protect him.

The planet has a tech level equal to mid-20th Century Earth, but the natives are completely deaf. So none of the cars, trains, planes or other machinery has any noise dampening.

He survives, but it’s close…

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-lensman-super-pack-e-e-doc-smith/20084689?ean=9781515460855&next=t

paywall

“Stallion Gate” by Martin Cruz Smith. Fun novel about Oppenheimer’s Native driver.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/stallion-gate-martin-cruz-smith/120696?ean=9780345310798&next=t

Even at the height of WW2 the Allies kept secrets from each other. Churchill had no idea the US had the Atom Bomb until it was deployed.

The only surprising thing is that the headline isn’t an actual Trump quote.

So, no space elevator in the next few months?

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https://bookshop.org/p/books/wild-seed-octavia-e-butler/11019356?ean=9781538751480&next=t

Wild Seed by Octavia Butler.

Shape shifter meets a body thief. If he inhabits her body, she will die and he’ll never be able to get more children from her.

That’s the first chapter.

I was also invented in the 1950s,

https://youtu.be/iFgqgMreCAQ

As were many other horrors…

Your comment blows, dude…

They were invented in the 1950s.

So the Depression and the World Wars were quieter…

Making things worse only makes things worse.

It’s like calling a high school gym teacher a “professional athlete” or someone with an associate degree 'Highly educated."

I know a nurse who flies ten times a year. All her trips combined don’t add up to the fuel a private jet burns on one trip.

Moreover, she’d happliy use high speed rail if that were an option.

When Ronald Reagan proposed trickle-down in 1979, opposing candidate George W. Bush dismissed it as ‘voo-doo’ economics. Later, Bush was happy to push for it when he got the nomination to be Reagan’s Veep

I like your version better!