Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical
Hard not to get a little misty thinking about it. The science and engineering that went into it which will only be topped by the science to come out of it.
It really does make me proud. I often think about stuff like this while staring at the solar objects. That we've actually put a man on the moon and returned him safely. We've set landers down on a friggin moon of Saturn and returned images. That an organized grouping of organic molecules can think about, send, and return things and information to and from the heavens.
ETA: I particularly liked this line:
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It really does make me proud. I often think about stuff like this while staring at the solar objects. That we've actually put a man on the moon and returned him safely. We've set landers down on a friggin moon of Saturn and returned images. That an organized grouping of organic molecules can think about, send, and return things and information to and from the heavens.
ETA: I particularly liked this line:
The last signal from Cassini will reach Earth at 7:55 am EDT, 83 minutes after Cassini becomes one with the object of its admiration.
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