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‘Amazingly, she speaks English (as extraterrestrials always do in the movies) and by a stroke of luck her spacecraft lands in an English-speaking country!’
— Feb 25, 2023 04:57AM
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Abi Collins
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“The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies.” - Stephen Hawking
Hell yeah chemical scum
— Apr 07, 2023 03:27AM
Hell yeah chemical scum
Abi Collins
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The idea of a galactic habitable zone is cool as fuck
— Mar 27, 2023 09:12AM
Abi Collins
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‘Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. The mnemonic I use to remember these levels (or taxa) is far too rude to mention but another is 'Keeping Precious Creatures Organized For Grumpy Scientists.’
Bruh what’s the rude mnemonic lmao
— Feb 25, 2023 04:59AM
Bruh what’s the rude mnemonic lmao
Abi Collins
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Overall, there are about 10^29 microbes of all varieties in the ocean, far exceeding the 10^22 stars in the observable universe.
— Feb 25, 2023 04:58AM
Abi Collins
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‘With this approach, in 1953, Patterson accurately aged the Earth at 4.5 Ga. He was so excited that he feared a heart attack, and his mother had to take him to hospital.’
Hehehe
— Jan 13, 2023 06:13AM
Hehehe
Abi Collins
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Pigeon droppings in the horn were blamed initially; but after cleaning up and shooting the unfortunate pigeons, the real culprit was identified as the beginning of the universe.
— Jan 10, 2023 10:09AM
Abi Collins
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‘To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.’ - Carl Sagan
— Jan 03, 2023 09:06AM
