Our hearts are torn for those across the sea, The blackenedness and all the pain they stand, […]

In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.

As well as being important for aircraft and spacecraft, the Kármán line is useful for lawyers—the laws that govern space are not the same as the laws that govern Earth's atmosphere!

He goes into an all-night doughnutery at 3:40 a. m. and falls to talking with the lonely counterman, who is a college student as well and who isn’t satisfied with just selling doughnuts and coffee.