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Planted some squash today! Now my allergies want me dead. Fair trade, I think.

Space Happy

Tonight's Cosmos was especially excellent. The stuff about panspermia was the most fun (bouncing bacteria!) and always gets my recently re-revved sci-fi brain sparking,* but I also liked that the inevitable exhortation to not be so bloody shortsighted with our own species ended on an optimistic note. Sure there are stubbornly obtuse people refusing to think more broadly, but I like to think that they're a small minority. And, of course, I'm trying to do what I can to help, too.

Hope this is the sort of stuff I get to talk about at Space Place. Got a tour of it the other day. I think I'm gonna have FUN working there. If I get to basically tell kids how awesome the universe is, well, I'll be helping the next generation NOT to be so obtuse. I think that's a goal worth going for.


*DOCTORS PLOT SOLUTION, Y'ALL. THIS BOOK IS STILL GETTING WROTE.