They say “the arts” are a waste of time.

As I grow older, I realize that the technical skills are easy to acquire and that knowledge, understanding, and wisdom takes time.

With a name like that, there’s no limit to the heights they can reach!

A new life awaits you in the Offworld Colonies!

what a name choice

just fucking stunningly naked grift, incredible

@sc_griffith

Coincidentally, I was passing Brasilia airport yesterday, and there's a company called "Icarus Aviation". Which I thought was a ... bold ... choice of name.

I guess the real innovation we might hope from a company like this is that they make robots that don't break, even when they fall from LEO. 🤣

Pissonus Robotics

Cow Tools

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Their favourite part of the Story Of Icarus was when Icarus jumped in the IcarusMobile and shouted "It's Icarussin' Time" and then sped away in a cloud of smoke

Spoiler ahead for B5: And then Icarus will discover a strange dark ship.

@sc_griffith "Soma Capital", eh?

Ha, that is the same name the sun energy system has in the Peter Watts Blindsight series.

It eventually falls into the sun.

@sc_griffith Icarus Robotics, a division of Hubris Holdings.

Obvious grift company aside, take a guess what the Greek air force officially calls their flying officers.

Although to be fair being deliberately morbid is a definitely a thing in the military, and the writing on their logo is doric greek for "We'll do better".

@sc_griffith Nuke them from low Earth orbit

Oh this is good.

This reminded me of this.

@sc_griffith Is there a way to tell these baby Founders that "No Man's Sky" isn't real.

@sc_griffith Using "Icarus" for a space company just shows that the founders don't have a basic knowledge of mythology.

I'm just waiting for it to fly too high and then crash and burn.

@sc_griffith the only thing I still believe is that we'll have Kessler's Syndrome by the end of the decade.

@sc_griffith criminals...