RIP: Mira Furlan and Hank Aaron

I only saw Mrs. Furlan in person once, at San Diego, just as Babylon 5 was getting going. And that, from across a standing-room only hall. Her work on-screen was nonetheless stellar, in the best sense, in the role of Delenn.

I never got to see Mr. Aaron, but I read the Peanuts strip with Snoopy standing in for Mr. Aaron, taking his own share of hate mail as a fictional beagle on his own quest to break Babe Ruth's record, and later learned the fuller story. Mr. Schulz was clearly a fan of Mr. Aaron, from what I saw in print.

Two people worthy of respect. Now both gone.

TRANSPORT: Electric Cars

From 2019 in Nature for a revisit:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02242-y

From this month at The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/electric-vehicles-close-to-tipping-point-of-mass-adoption

Making me wish Trek-style replicator tech was real. I know there's people working on it...and we want to make this not be a no-win scenario...