I used to have this neighbor who worked at Loral. Designing spy sats...

We used to have this "language" whereby I would ask him a question while he washed his car.

If he washed left (wax on) it was 'yes' - if washed right 'wax off' it was 'no'

So I would ask him all sorts of questions about the capabilities of the spy sats loral was building and through that simple interaction, was able to learn a lot about sats...

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I have never uttered this story before.

People can grow and have regrets but immediately telling everyone else doing the same thing you were just doing to rot in hell is a little much.

THIS! and these regrets eat deep.