🌀🐇 #213 breadcrumbs, exoplanets, best podcast snippets
Plus 28 Carl Sagan Quotes to Propel Your Mind Into the Infinite Cosmos
⚡️ Enlightening Bolts
🍞 Breadcrumbs: On leaving them for others to find. Read it here.
🔭 It’s Time to Build the Exoplanet Telescope: The article advocates for building an enormous space telescope enabled by SpaceX's Starship, which would allow us to study exoplanets in unprecedented detail, potentially answering fundamental questions about life beyond Earth and expanding humanity's understanding of the universe. Read it here.
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🎇 Image of The Week
This mesmerizing photo features frozen methane bubbles. This phenomenon takes place as decomposing plants on the bottom of lakes release methane gas and form bubbles while the lake freezes. It was taken by Kristina Makeeva at Lake Baikal, Russia.
💗 The Unnamed Legacy
We can keep climbing our entire lives trying to "make something of ourselves" to "make our lives matter."
To create a “legacy” which often means no more than seeking the applause you’ll never hear from people you’ve never met, all clapping for a caricature of who you are and not the real thing.
Do not worry if your name is remembered.
Instead, be concerned with acting as a force of love so strong that your children's children's children will still swim in that same reservoir of nourishment.
Because your time on earth will have left an impression on those you leave behind.
And they will carry with them your subtle ways of being that invite kindness, compassion, and care.
As the years pass, the origin of such warmth will be lost on them, but love will still permeate the room.
And that is what matters.
🚶♂️➡️ The Value of Walking
Take inspiration from Albert Camus:
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but 'steal' some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”
Pairs nicely with this sentiment from Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
“What I most regret in regard to the details of my life which have escaped my memory, is that I never kept a diary of my travels. I have never thought so much, existed so much, lived so much, been so much myself, it I may venture to use the phrase, as in the journeys which I have made alone and on foot. There is something in walking which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can scarcely think when I remain still; my body must be in motion to make my mind active.”
🤓 Learn This Word
Penumbral: A region of partial illumination between a full light source and a perfect shadow. The word comes from the Latin words paene, meaning "almost", and umbra, meaning "shadow".
⏳ From The Archives
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28 Carl Sagan Quotes to Propel Your Mind Into the Infinite Cosmos
Carl Sagan was the space sage. The comic cosmonaut. He may have never gone to space, but it sure seemed like he lived there most days.
He was an astrophysicist, astronomer, cosmologist, and renowned author. However, he is likely most known as being a science communicator and science popularizer. He got us excited about space, about life, about humanity, and about the infinite potential we have ahead of us.
He wrote thrilling books, starred in feature TV series, and produced scientific papers with ease. He was a down-to-earth, head-in-the-sky, big-picture thinker, and humanity owes him a collective debt.
He was also part of the team who sent the Aricebo message, a radio communication blasted out into space with information about Earth and its inhabitants.
An active cannabis and space activist, the man had a lot to say, and he said it well. In his honor, we’ve pulled together some of his best thoughts. These Carl Sagan quotes cover everything from the smallest atoms to the further stars.
Buckle in, and blast off.
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