My name is only in the Bible. Boring.
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Lt. Riley sung my name on Star Trek. Over and over and over and over. . .
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Odd, I thought we were farther from the galactic center than that for some reason.
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Also, some historical astronomy stuff for you:
Feb 7th, 1984: Bruce McCandless performs the first untethered space walk, and I’mma be noping my way out from that, thank you very much…
A picture of Pluto’s ice mountains as taken by the New Horizons Space probe:
1972: Astronaut Charles Duke left a picture of his family on the surface of the moon, and it’s been there ever since:
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Bruce McCandless. I met him once. Great guy. He loved talking about that moment.
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“The planet Earth was blue, and there was nothing I could do.”
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Whoops, my apologies. Fixed.
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Good news! The ESA has confirmed that the planet Earth is habitable by life as we know it.
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Sort of.
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Not only that, but signs of life may even have been detected:
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Way ahead of you.
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That would do it.
Okay, here’s a thing from Mars Express, still operating more than twenty years after launch
(EtA: linked to full-sized image)
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Now, if only there was intelligent life that wanted to keep the planet habitable…
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But did they describe earth as “mostly harmless”?
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They would have, but something put a dent in their plans.
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Cetaceans, chimpanzees and elephants.
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Don’t leave out the octopuses!
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And the mice.
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and the CROOOOWs!
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