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I'm a geek. No. Really. Really geeky. And I write poetry. And I read poetry. I'm an English teacher to-be.
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“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we’ve learned most of what we know. Recently, we’ve waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”– Carl Sagan, Cosmos
(Illustration by Jocelyn Oudesluys, via Rational Poetry)
Watch all 13 episodes of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos on Youtube!
Episode 1: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
Episode 2: One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue
Episode 3 - The Harmony Of The Worlds
Episode 5 - Blues for a Red Planet
Episode 7 - The Backbone of the Night
Episode 8 - Journeys in Space & Time
Episode 9 -The Lives of the Stars
Episode 10 - The Edge of Forever
Episode 11 - The Persistence of Memory
Episode 12 - Encyclopædia Galactica
Episode 13 - Who Speaks for Earth?
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Teen girl from Egypt has just reinvented space travel
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Egyptian Aisha Mustafa, 19, has dazzled the physics world with a new invention that could launch spacecraft off the Earth’s surface and soaring through space without any fuel. Space is filled with a billowing sea of quantum particles that jump in and out of existence, and Aisha Mustafa proposes using thin silicon panels, spaced closely together, to trap these particles and then move against them, creating a propelling force. This innovation would make space exploration lighter, safer and cheaper than the traditional “blast off” method. Mustafa still has some design work to do, but unfortunately her research is currently limited by lack of state funding for space science departments at the university level, though her school’s science club did help fund her application for a patent.
What a woman.
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While I’m so happy to hear about this, and am impressed by this woman, I want to say that the MSN article (which this is quoting) has it completely and utterly wrong in this sentence:
new invention that could launch spacecraft off the Earth’s surface and soaring through space without any fuel.
No. What she invented was only the second half, “soaring through space without any fuel”. This propulsion system will not manage to get an object out of the Earth’s gravity well. You still need a heavy-duty lift system for that.
All that being said:
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Library of Congress obtains astronomer Carl Sagan’s personal papers
The life of Carl Sagan now fills the tabletops of two vast rooms in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress. The life arrived at the building’s loading dock on 41 pallets containing 798 boxes.
Sagan famously talked about billions of stars and billions of galaxies, and it appears that he saved roughly that many pieces of paper.
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Openly gay Latina wins Texas congressional seat
(Courtesy Mary Gonzalez)
Mary Gonzalez told them she was the best candidate to represent them and El Paso voters agreed, but along the way, the 28-year-old doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin broke her share of barriers.
“[A]t the end of my term, I will be Representative Gonzales and Dr. Gonzales.”
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Oh, Carl. You’ve ruined all our lives with your incredible amounts of awesome.
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