Agreed. AW Admin in a PM was kind enough to detail how and why my writing sometimes comes off as a lecture. So keep on zapping me when I stray into old habits.Laer. No more lectures and essays for a while.
This is just too cool not to pass on.
In a recent post on Lois McMaster Bujold's Goodreads web site someone posted a link to a photo of Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the space station dressed as Captain Janeway drinking the first "cup" of espresso coffee brewed in space. Here's the link to the photo, plus links to her bio info.
https://twitter.com/AstroSamantha/status/594910190287396865/photo/1
http://samanthacristoforetti.esa.int/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Cristoforetti
Until I came across this I didn't know that Italy had a space program. Viva Italia!