I am titled Melissa.
I've seen 20 revolutions around the sun.
Science + SciFi + Art
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Aspiring amateur astronomer.
Science enthusiast.
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This is what I post.
This is what I look like.
01/24/12
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Weed is star stuff too.
My new books came in!
Now my cat has enough room to sleep on them all!
PS: Can you count the Carl Sagan books?
Ohhh! If my cats were fluffy they would look like your cat ! :3
Great book collection, btw!
“These are some of the things hydrogen atoms do, given fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution. It has the sound of epic myth, but it’s simply a description of the evolution of the cosmos as revealed by science in our time. And we, we who embody the local eyes and ears, and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, we’ve begun at last to wonder about our origins. Star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and, perhaps, throughout the cosmos. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”
what is this all about? sounds good to me.
My favorite moment from Cosmos is one a lot of people seem to have overlooked
“Near zero gee, the slightest motion sends our friends floating and tumbling in the air. Little blobs of liquid tea are everywhere. If we now return the gravity to one gee, it’s raining tea, and our friends [from Alice in Wonderland] fall back to Earth.
I’ve been to a couple of parties like that myself.”
-From Episode 9: The Lives of the Stars.
Searching for Intelligent Aliens: Q&A with SETI Astronomer Jill Tarter
Astronomer Jill Tarter has been scanning the skies for signals from intelligent aliens for the past 35 years, but now she’s making a career change.
Tarter, the inspiration for heroine Ellie Arroway in Carl Sagan’s novel “Contact” and the movie based on it, is stepping down from her long-held post as director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. But she’ll continue to aid the SETI cause, by shifting over to a full-time fundraising role for the Institute.Read the full interview here
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