I should get on tumblr more often...
"Anna, I love you…but the last thing I could handle is a drunk version of you. Just…think it through for a moment! I’d need the entire upcoming year just to prepare for the first time you had liquor of any kind…”
"…and I do not trust Kristoff. If that point wasn’t made clear. Not a single bit.”
How do people let go of each other?
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
— Carl Sagan
"Science literacy empowers you to know when someone else is full of shit." ― Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson
NDT layin it on thick today.
Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Ep 2: Charlie X.
This will NEVER not be my favorite episode. I love it so much. This is my favorite moment from the whole show. My other favorite moment is when Spock tells Kirk that he’ll need to act as a father figure to Charlie, which makes him uncomfortable, ESPECIALLY when explaining sex + women to Charlie. I gotta feeling nobody knows sex + women better than Captain Kirk, though.
When Carl was five years old, he wondered about the stars: what were they? Unsatisfied with the answers he got from his friends and from adults he knew, Carl went to the library and asked for a book about stars. The librarian handed him … a book on celebrities! In Keay Davidson’s Carl Sagan: A Life, Carl explained how his fascination with the cosmos began:
“I gave it back to her and said, “This wasn’t the kind of stars I had in mind.” She thought this was hilarious, which humiliated me further. She then went and got the right kind of book. I took it—a simple kid’s book. I sat down on a little chair—a pint-sized chair—and turned the pages until I came to the answer.
And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light…. And while I didn’t know the [inverse] square law of light propagation or anything like that, still, it was clear to me that you would have to move that Sun enormously far away, further away than Brooklyn [for the stars to appears as dots of light]….
The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. [It was] kind of a religious experience. [There] was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.”
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/09/10-neat-facts-about-carl-sagan/
Life is a tornado and I'm just a cow being spun around for cinematic value.
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