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Weekly Contest #358
"When you have money, the world becomes your jukebox. You choose the names on the billboards. The prices at the market. Whom the anger is directed at on the news. The items on the menu." Charlotte bragged from the top of a skyscraper restaurant, drinking champagne while admiring the skyline, the pyramids of Giza in the late afternoon light, and her friend across the table. "Is that what your boss told you?" he said, reminding her that she, too, was part of the jukebox. She smiled her cynical astonishing smile. They were celebrating their new...
My uncle Fred had a rule: if your project doesn't have a realistic chance of going catastrophically wrong, you haven't thought big enough. He called it the Dangerous Minds Principle. I called it the best thing any adult had ever said to me. I wanted to build something that could touch the edge of space for my school science fair. Not something small. Not the kind of project that gets a ribbon, polite applause, and ends up in the recycling bin by Monday. We started researching high-altitude balloons. The physics of sending things very high ...
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