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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 9610737" data-attributes="member: 6689464">Today I learned, more like today I remembered. In 2002, Make-a-wish chose a kid named Tyler who had a severe liver cancer which had already ruptured and had a bad prognosis. Tyler's wish was to design his own Yu-Gi-Oh card. Manga author Kazuki Takshashi himself drew the art.[ATTACH=full]399414[/ATTACH]Only one copy was made. This is already more or less well-known trivia, but Tyler's eventual fate is never ever mentioned. This is what I learned: he managed to beat the odds. He is in his thirties now and had the card auctioned to help pay for his first home. Yugituber Cimoo helped to make the transaction possible.[MEDIA=youtube]SOZOhogpK_w[/MEDIA]Other make-a-wish wishes involved feeding the homeless (which had to get reduced to feeding the homeless in one city, one time), getting tons of get well cards (they ended up filling a big warehouse),&nbsp; and hunt a particular bear. (And after make-a-wish stopped ranting hunting related wishes, a new charity, Hunt of a Lifetime, was born to fill the void. Just how many gravely ill kids with hunting experience are there?)In general, I'm very skeptical of ufo as alien vessels and close encounters. It feels weird to me to accept them at face value because they require 'basically magic' levels of technology to be viable in the face of relativity and how insanely huge space is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 9610737, member: 6689464"] Today I learned, more like today I remembered. In 2002, Make-a-wish chose a kid named Tyler who had a severe liver cancer which had already ruptured and had a bad prognosis. Tyler's wish was to design his own Yu-Gi-Oh card. Manga author Kazuki Takshashi himself drew the art. [ATTACH type="full" size="329x480"]399414[/ATTACH] Only one copy was made. This is already more or less well-known trivia, but Tyler's eventual fate is never ever mentioned. This is what I learned: he managed to beat the odds. He is in his thirties now and had the card auctioned to help pay for his first home. Yugituber Cimoo helped to make the transaction possible. [MEDIA=youtube]SOZOhogpK_w[/MEDIA] Other make-a-wish wishes involved feeding the homeless (which had to get reduced to feeding the homeless in one city, one time), getting tons of get well cards (they ended up filling a big warehouse), and hunt a particular bear. (And after make-a-wish stopped ranting hunting related wishes, a new charity, Hunt of a Lifetime, was born to fill the void. Just how many gravely ill kids with hunting experience are there?) In general, I'm very skeptical of ufo as alien vessels and close encounters. It feels weird to me to accept them at face value because they require 'basically magic' levels of technology to be viable in the face of relativity and how insanely huge space is. [/QUOTE]

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