"'Fuck these contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. High school, university, then work. Fuck it! And fuck the pilot academy; If I want to fly, I'll find a way to do it. You have to do what you like, and to hell with the rest'" (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine).

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"We must prefer the plausible impossible to the incredible possible; and the story lines must not be composed of irrational parts, but above all they must not have anything irrational, or else the irrational must be outside the plot" (Aristotle, Poetics).

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You heard correctly: On the morning of Saturday, October 7th, the Sponish rocket Miura I successfully reached space. It seems that, eventually, the Martians will eat paella and drink gazpacho. 😋

I was driving this morning (well, yesterday morning, since it is already Thursday) back home on an unusual road, from a distant town that I had never been to, and I suffered a small incident. I was driving on a road in an unpopulated area, at 100 kilometers per hour, very calm, confident that Google Maps would take me home safely, when suddenly the GPS tells me to deviate from the road and take a dirt road. The reasonable thing to do would have been to ignore the GPS and continue on the road,

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