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		spb on Feb 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life > People form a kind of super-being in a mob, a near God-like entity, which can perform powerful acts - go to the moon, solve humanitarian crises, and so on. I'd hardly call NASA or UNICEF a mob.

fit2rule on Feb 12, 2015 [–]

Maybe mob is one end of the spectrum, and "organized space-exploration organization" is the other end.

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