Imagine having this view as you’re commuting home.
The Artemis 2 crew is now falling to Earth, picking up speed every second as gravity relentlessly pulls them.
When they plow into the upper atmosphere they’ll be the fastest humans in history - with nothing but air to slow them
They are now falling 400,000 km to Earth, picking up speed pretty much the whole way. There's a miniscule chance they'll hit orbital debris, but the real impact will be with Earth - they'll be the fastest humans ever as the atmosphere rudely slows them from 40,000 kph to parachute speed. Counting on the heat shield for protection.
4 people are in there with hopes, dreams, risk and the unknown.
It makes me breathless, knowing how they're feeling and what they're facing.
So exciting to see what we're capable of when we work together in common purpose, deciding to push back the edges of our collective ignorance.
Have a great voyage, crew of @NASAArtemis!
“We’re literally being starved of something that, biologically, we’ve evolved to receive” - The surprising science behind red-light therapy — and how it really works https://t.co/RYZzqlL3GS
Simone de Beauvoir, born on this day in 1908, on moving beyond the simplistic divide of optimism and pessimism, and the realest source of hope: https://t.co/pUSk96vLkd
This is a great interview and I recommend for anyone interested in biology and evolution. I just ordered Nick Lane’s book - The Vital Question. @Big_Biology
https://t.co/niVoU8eVAx
Across the abyss between one consciousness and another, between one frame of reference and another, we go on searching for an organizing principle to fathom the ultimate questions:
What is life?
What is death?
What makes a body a person?
What makes a planet a world?
Over and over, we discover that it is all one question, that there might just be a single answer: love. Our love of knowledge. Our love of mystery. Our love of beauty transcending the vanity of ambition. Our love of truth prevailing over the howling hunger for power. Our love for each other — each of us a festival of particles and probabilities, a living question, a perishable miracle composed of chemistry and culture, of passion and chance. https://t.co/NQlN6dFG3h