Seth ShostakSpace A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you’ll find at your local industrial park. That’s the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon. – Seth Shostak Carbon Quotes Elevator Quotes Factory Quotes Industrial Quotes Local Quotes Moon Quotes Nanotubes Quotes Onefourth Quotes Park Quotes Ribbon Quotes Sheet Quotes Showstopper Quotes Space Quotes Stretch Quotes Wide Quotes Yard Quotes Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four’s 1960s-genre compositions. The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That’s a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it’s all bleakly barren.
Anne Sullivan Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. – Anne Sullivan
Margaret Fuller Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. – Margaret Fuller
Susanna Clarke I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it. – Susanna Clarke
John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below. – John McCrae
Jami Gertz Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens. – Jami Gertz
Jonathan Brandis I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination. – Jonathan Brandis
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