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The piece below was written by Marina Keegan ‘12 for a special edition of the News distributed at the class of 2012’s commencement exercises last week. Keegan died in a car accident on Saturday. She was 22.
“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.”
(via KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness | Cross Campus | Yale Daily News)
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Ok, at 100,000 feet it’s not really “space” but for $320 USD JP Aerospace is offering a very affordable way to get your research experiment, brand statement, artwork or anything you can imagine (and that fits into a 50mm cube, weight limits apply) into the upper atmosphere. Pretty cool!
Touting its program as “stomping down the cost of space”, Rancho Cordova, California-based JP Aerospace (America’s OTHER Space Program) is offering its MiniCube platform to anyone who wants to get… well, something… carried up to 100,000 feet.
(via universetoday)
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4 days ago • 74 notes • view commentsElaine: Bah bah baaah, Boo doo bah bah bah, boo doo waaaah, waah, waaaah…
Jerry: Hey, could you do me a favor? [pause] Could you shut-up?
Elaine: Hey guess what? This window doesn’t work.
Jerry: I hate rental cars. Nothin’ ever works: the window doesn’t work, the radio doesn’t work… and it smells like a cheap hooker…
[pause] Or is that you?
Elaine: Gimme ten bucks and find out…(via The Airport)
Nomads of the Galaxy: What Does It Mean to Have Quadrillions of Planets Adrift in Milky Way?
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ScienceDaily (May 23, 2012) — Recently, a study was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society proposing planets simply adrift in space may be something of a common phenomenon. Aptly titled “Nomads of the Galaxy,” the authors proposed an upper limit to the number of nomad planets that might exist in the Milky Way Galaxy: 100,000 for every star. And because the Milky Way is estimated to have 200 to 400 billion stars, that could put the number of nomad planets in the quadrillions.
If this proposal is correct, it could be that nomad planets play a dynamic role in the universe. In particular, if life can exist without the warmth of a nearby sun, it raises the possibility that, along with sustaining life, nomad planets could be transporting it as well.
While just an idea, it’s one that becomes more intriguing when considering not only the number of nomad planets, but the behavior of galaxies.
(via sciencedaily)
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