Since the telescope has a gigantic field of view, it will be able to send us tons of data really quickly — about 500 times faster than our Hubble Space Telescope! That means Roman will send back a flood of new information about the cosmos.
Let’s put it into perspective — if we printed out all of Roman’s data as text, the paper would have to hurtle out of the printer at 40,000 miles per hour (64,000 kilometers per hour) to keep up! At that rate, the stack of papers would tower 330 miles (530 kilometers) high after a single day. By the end of Roman’s five-year primary mission, the stack would extend even farther than the Moon! With all this data, Roman will bring all kinds of cosmic treasures to light, from dark matter and dark energy to distant planets and more!
On August 5 (new style), 1895, Frederick Engels died in London. After his friend Karl Marx (who died in 1883), Engels was the finest scholar and teacher of the modern proletariat in the whole world. From the time that fate brought Karl Marx and Frederick Engels together, the two friends devoted their life’s work to a common cause.
On this day, 5 August 1993, the Japanese government finally admitted that it forced women to work in military brothels from 1932-1945 (content note: this post contains mention of sexual violence).
Up to 200,000 women and young girls, mostly from Korea and China, but with others from Japan, the Philippines and some European settlers in Dutch Indonesia were either abducted or tricked and sent to over 100 brothels, supposedly in an effort to prevent an occurrence of the mass rapes which took place during the Nanjing massacre.
The United Nations estimates that 90% of the so-called “comfort women” died during World War II, but some survived and later were courageous enough to tell their stories, which was essential as Japanese officials destroyed much of their documentation. Others killed themselves due to the shame they felt.
Despite admitting the sex slavery, many Japanese politicians and nationalists today try to deny that it ever took place.
After Japan was defeated, Japanese authorities established domestic brothels for the use of US occupation troops. Some women were recruited to work in the brothels under false pretences after they applied for fake office jobs. The government and businessmen operated the new network brothels under the “Recreation and Amusement Association” which was funded by the government. By the end of 1945 70,000 women were working for the RAA. US occupation forces were well aware that many of the women were coerced, with a military memo stating “the practice of enslaving girls, while much less prevalent than in the past, still exists”, although it is unclear if they included enslaved women abducted from occupied areas.
With complaints from military chaplains, sexually-transmitted diseases spreading, and fear of criticism back home, the US military eventually declared the brothels off-limits on 25 March 1946.
Pictured: Korean “comfort women”, 1944 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1777341742450968/?type=3
You dont have to be rich to do a bit of this actually
RIP Medical Debt is a charity (and therefore takes donations). They buy the rights to medical debt and then forgive them. So far they’ve forgiven over 1B in medical debt.
So a little ray of hope for someone out there today.
Oliver then proceeded to detail how with $50 and knowledge of the law he was able to successfully apply online to create a debt buying company named “Central Asset Recovery Professionals,” or as Oliver put it, “CARP” named after “a bottom-feeding fish.”
After setting up a rudimentary website for CARP, the satirical, but still real company was offered a $15 million package of medical debt for $60,000.
Oliver explained that the debt was out of statute, which means it is the kind of debt that a collector can only continue to collect, but not sue the debtor for.
Then, instead of chasing down the 9,000 debtors in the debt package as a normal collection agency would, Oliver decided to stage the largest one-time giveaway in television history and work with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to forgive the $15 million with no consequences for the debtors.
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