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retromantique:

Maybe the Carl Sagan picture that makes me the happiest. Maybe THE picture that makes me the happiest, period. I love you Sagan.

*insert all sorts of crying like a bitch gifs here*

More of a reason to pack my shit up and move to New Zealand.

One of the finest looking LOTR cakes I’ve seen yet :)

Haha, yes!

How’s this for a mathematical equation? :)

The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth, the atoms that make up the human body are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them went unstable in their later years, they collapsed and then exploded scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy - guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas cloud that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself.

So that when I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up – many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big – but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Neil channeling his inner “Sagan” right here… preach on brotha’

Atta boy.

Got my replacement iPhone back (was robbed at gunpoint for it 2 months ago, then work dried up - a one-two punch to be sure. I had to revert back to my faithful crackberry until I had the funds to replace it.) Got my Hail Sagan shirt from TeeFury a couple of days ago and waited to wear it today so I could document it… Carl was right: “A still more glorious dawn awaits…” :)