Hello there! Welcome to the Snowball Effect, the blog that tries to make a point to you!
In the news today, the doctor of Nadya Suleman, better known as "Octomom", was stripped of his license today, the reason being that his action of implanting 12 embryos into one woman "did not exercise sound judgement". No duh. I have to wonder--and I'm not condoning either of these two things, by the way--why is it that a doctor who gives a woman more babies is shamed, but "doctors" in abortion clinics killing babies every day are perfectly fine?? What's up with that? No Hippocratic oath for you guys either, huh? But I digress...stupid people will do stupid things, and yelling about it won't solve anything.
Moving on from that weird rant, we have some rather saddening news, though not shocking considering the subject. Syrian troops have begun to attack the town of Rastan, pouring heavy artillery and gunfire into the defenseless town. The attacks started because the people of Syria protested the "president" of Syria, a cruel man by the name of Bashar Assad, whose family has been in power for nearly forty years. So far, the death count of the attack on Rastan is at 72, but over 1,000 people are already dead from the government's harsh countermeasures, and at least 10,000 are missing or held captive by the government. I ask that you please pray for the people of Syria, as our brothers in Christ will need much faith and discernment in the days and weeks to come.
Now we get into some Awesome News: Jeff Greason talking about space settlement at the International Space Development Conference. Now, I don't know about you, but America having a no-kidding space station orbiting Mars!? That would be so awesome! To say that my relatives orbit Jupiter--the coolest thing ever! Aside from this being cool, it provides for better opportunities for space flight and stuff. For one thing, the reason sending space shuttles off requires so much effort is the simple fact that the Earth is huge. Because the Earth is so huge, it attracts objects with much greater force than, say, the Moon. Thus, it requires much more effort to propel something as awesomely huge as, say, the Enterprise (it could happen, guys, it could happen) into space than it would to accomplish the same feat from the Moon. If we could get colonies started on the Moon, or even Mars, eventually, space travel could become so much easier! All in all, really awesome, check the article out. You might nerd out as much as I did.
In news that's too funny, sad, and strange to pass up, hundreds of Chinese prisoners are being forced to endure the oddest torture yet--gold farming in World of Warcraft? Ask any hardcore MMORPG fanatic you may like and they'll say that the most annoying and time-consuming part of online gaming is getting the in-game currency of their favorite game (e.g., WOW). Thus spawned the custom of "gold farming"--trading real money for in-game currency. *dramatic Hollywood voice* Little did anyone know that the gold they were getting had been mined by poor Chinese prisoners, forced to work through the night for hours at a time! Now, you're probably thinking, "What? What?? That's...punishment?" Hey--don't knock it 'till you try it. I've played plenty of games, both on and offline, that required you to have ridiculous amounts of cash to do anything (Mount&Blade, anybody?), and usually it was pretty hard to get a lot of money. It's actually pretty smart of the prisons--find a product that lots of people want and are willing to pay good, solid cash for, and make the people who really don't have much else to do in the day make that product for the money-paying people! It's just good business, although I wonder if the prisoners are going to walk out of there with a few less brain cells as a result.
That's all the news I've got for today, folks--remember, you're welcome to send me news via Facebook or comments on these blogs! And that applies for all posts as well--I appreciate any advice or comments that you'd like to send me!
Until next time,
--CommanderSnowball
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