I really needed to see this today. I crawled past my astronomical existential crisis long ago. My new challenge is hoping for a bright future for Owen and Marcus. I hope they'll live in a world that provides them with the luxury of studying the stars and dreaming of other planets like our own. Of course, Carl Sagan nicely summed up this idea long before I came on the scene. This NASA PSA encapsulates the sentiment nicely:
h/t: Andrew Sullivan
h/t: Andrew Sullivan
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my best new year's resolution yet!