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"...And do some SERIOUS planet hunting..." - I guess we have promised E.T. for too long, the customer wants to see results. Shameful.
| aleksthethird Reader's comments at space.com regarding a newly found planet: "Well, CoRoT is up for almost two years, and by far only 4 planets?" Well. |
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| aleksthethird @plomlompom vollkommen richtig, astronauten sollten demokratisch gewaehlt werden. |
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| aleksthethird European Space Agency! Why not me? Who else could be better for the job? You ruin my career! And my life, too! |
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| aleksthethird "I regret to inform you that .. it has been decided not to retain your application for the post of Astronaut." You will regret this, indeed. |
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| aleksthethird I feel like all decisions are made, the future is set, the world is deterministic. An illusion, obviously, and not a very good one. |
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| aleksthethird @cmotion my brain hurts, does this answer the question? |
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| aleksthethird @genista it's also wrong. |
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| aleksthethird As soon as he is finished talking about how great it will be to find life in the Universe, I gonna find life in the Universe. In theatre A. |
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| aleksthethird This lecture hall is like Titan. It looks habitable, but nobody is taking advantage of it. |
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| aleksthethird Attempting to communicate with the populated world in theatre A using a laser pointer. It's a desperate version of SETI. |
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| aleksthethird Watching the empty Universe, featuring 200 empty seats. Admiring Mr. Lunine for pretending that there might be somebody in the room. |
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| aleksthethird And I am the only one to report about it. So, believe me, either there is somebody out there, or not. That's the truth. |
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| aleksthethird It's 'yes of course' over there, because the room is packed, but it's 'hell, no' right here, from the empty seats. |
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| aleksthethird He is essentially asking 'is anybody out there?', and in two different worlds, mh, rooms, he is getting two different answers. |
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| aleksthethird He is next door in theatre A, together with 300 other people. From my perspective, though, he is talking to a big, empty room. |
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| aleksthethird Standing in front of an empty lecture hall. Behind me the big screen with Jonathan Lunine, talking about alien worlds. |
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| aleksthethird Trying to find a way to live at two places simultaneously. |
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| aleksthethird I find it hard to believe that this bitch of sunshine is a direct consequence of something as beautiful as nuclear fusion. |
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| aleksthethird Developing a decent amount of hate for sunny mornings. |
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