I don’t know if it’s because of junk journalism, junk science, or small-minded scientists being the vocal minority in every article pertaining to the subject (probably while all the real scientists are off science-ing), but the most commonly reported views on the probability/frequency of extraterrestrial life are absurd. I’m not talking in terms of intelligent
Growing up I always marked August 12th on my calendar as the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower ever since I read about it in a magazine (I believe it was National Geographic, but I don’t remember with great certainty). Only once though did I really manage to immerse myself in it, pulling an
Christopher Nolan is probably the greatest living filmmaker. Was it perfect? No. But it was a masterpiece. That is all.
I’ve always been able to sculpt – I’ve just never done it. It’s been a strange sensation, having that realization sitting around untested, occasionally surfacing and teasing me with possibility. The very few times I’ve done anything along these lines it’s blossomed easily under my hands – but it’s never really been tested, because I
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