Hey Remember When US And Russia Was All Like “We’re The Best!!! We’ve Won The Space Race!!!!”

Angela Lane.

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

we sent Earth’s apex predator to space and she learned humanity 

Lunar gold rush could create conflict on the ground if we don't act now – new research

When it comes to the Moon, everyone wants the same things. Not in the sense of having shared goals, but in the sense that all players target the same strategic sites—state agencies and the private sector alike. That’s because, whether you want to do science or make money, you will need things such as water and light.

Countries that meet the requirements of the 2016 Paris Agreement

Astronauts talking about viewing the earth from the moon, from The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendent Experience in Space Flight

A vibrant false-color image Saturn, along with moons Rhea and Dione, imaged by Voyager 2 on July 21, 1981.

Cosmic border. Compton’s pictured encyclopedia. 1922. 

Internet Archive.

Carpenter & Westley. Astronomical Magic Lantern Slides. 1850s.