Freshman legislators hide behind hard nosed rhetoric that if parsed through in terms of economic consequences leads to a deep recession that lasts and lasts.
That plus the news of the vastly larger 1012 DA 14 which has just gone sailing past (in a near miss that in astonomical terms is hardly a miss at all) leads to the hope that Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources get going with their idea of mining asteroids pretty sharpish.
Once we are in our kayaks, our guide, Timothy Duffy, leads us into a 10-mile-deep ice field dotted with blue-white bergs that vary in size from refrigerator to SUV to two-story house.
Deep down I think we all know this, and it is our aversion to trauma that often leads us to prefer living a Rip Van Winkle existence to running the risks of being jolted wide awake.
What they really meant was: Tell your story of deep, dark emotional conflict, and frame your experiences through a lens of hardship (even better if it leads to redemption).