Category: Science
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“Planetary Chauvinism.”
– Isaac Asimov 2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992 As quoted by Gerrard O’Neill: In a roundtable TV interview, Isaac Asimov and I were asked why science-fiction writers have, almost without exception, failed to point us toward that development. Dr. Asimov’s reply was a phrase he has now become fond of using: “Planetary Chauvinism.”…
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Atomic puns & jokes no.23
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or a joke. Here follows more ‘atomic’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ What’s another name for the Periodic Table of elements?The atoms family. ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can In the meantime, take…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 18 – 24 December (no.17)
Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays. Maybe you share a birthday?! If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?! If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you? Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to…
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar (Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills) Wilde, 16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 To many this quip, as spoken by a character in Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan subtitled A Play About a Good Woman, represents humanity’s need to aim higher and do better. It doesn’t matter where you are (or even, who you are)…
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Atomic puns & jokes no.22
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atomic’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ So there’s this atom that keeps stealing electrons… You better keep an ion him. _________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can In the…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 11 – 17 December (no.16)
Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays. Maybe you share a birthday?! If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?! If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you? Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to…
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“I am a child of the Milky Way. The night is my mother. I am made of the dust of stars. Every atom in my body was forged in a star.”
― Chet Raymo, The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage Probing the depths of science and faith, scientist Chet Raymo investigates the mysteries of human spirituality and meaning contained in astronomy. Ranging through the stars and the myths humans have told about them for millennia, Raymo delves into “a pilgrimage in quest of the…
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Atomic puns & jokes no.21
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atomic’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ You are aware, of course, that all protons have mass. Mass?! I didn’t even know they were Catholic. _________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 4 – 10 December (no.15)
Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays. Maybe you share a birthday?! If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?! If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you? Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to…
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“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1 (http://www.literaturepage.com/read/mobydick-16.html) “For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal,…
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