And no one from the Tesla family has sued Elon Musk for using the famous inventors name on his car business... Nicola Tesla was a genius that worked with Edison and Westinghouse and changed the world dramatically... You have alternating current running in the walls of your house... But somehow Elon gets away with naming his car factory after a famous man?
and a friend of mine who goes to the Burning Man festival says there's a variation of the Water Ceremony from the book "Stranger in a Strange Land"... She says that when you meet someone, you offer them water... As a ceremonial way to invite friendship... But she says that it's a good idea to drink water first out of your jug and then pass it on to the stranger so you're not worried about running out of water... As they pass it along...
Grok:
The word "grok", coined in the novel, made its way into the English language. In Heinlein's invented Martian language, "grok" literally means "to drink" and figuratively means "to comprehend", "to love", and "to be one with". The word rapidly became common parlance among science fiction fans, hippies, and later computer programmers[20] and hackers,[21] and has since entered the Oxford English Dictionary.[22]
FYI:
Elon Musk's name has a striking connection to science fiction, specifically to rocket scientist Wernher von Braun's book The Mars Project, where "Elon" is the title of elected leaders of a future Martian civilization, a detail his father noted and found prescient. While not directly named after the novel by his parents initially (they considered other options), the name's appearance in the book about Mars colonization became a famous coincidence, especially given Musk's own goals for colonizing Mars.
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