Note To Self: In Order To Write, You Have To Actually Do More Than Stare At A Word Document Rereading

Right?

;-)

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Nicole and Chloë love the new apartment look. #FluffyCat (at Aspire)

I have a new plan: to go mad.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, in a letter to his brother Michael (via ughpoems)

This man inspired my very first feature length screenplay. I'm very sad to hear he's gone

Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved The World,' Dies At 77

Petrov was on overnight duty in 1983 when computers indicated the U.S. had launched a nuclear strike against his country. He had only a few nerve-jangling minutes to act.

Stanislav Petrov was on overnight duty in 1983 when computers indicated the U.S. had launched a nuclear strike against his country. He had only a few nerve-jangling minutes to act. “ … they were lucky it was me on shift that night,” he says. 

Never forsaken

“You were never forsaken in this magnitude.” Mikael Aldo

Navigating Space by the Stars

A sextant is a tool for measuring the angular altitude of a star above the horizon and has helped guide sailors across oceans for centuries. It is now being tested aboard the International Space Station as a potential emergency navigation tool for guiding future spacecraft across the cosmos. The Sextant Navigation investigation will test the use of a hand-held sextant that utilizes star sighting in microgravity. 

Read more about how we’re testing this tool in space!  

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The total solar eclipse which crossed from Alaska to Texas spurred many to make the trip West in 1878. Dr. Henry Draper, a medical doctor and former chair of physiology at New York University, assembled a group who watched the eclipse from the railroad outpost of Rawlins, Wyoming Territory and made some observations.

Neil 2020

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