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I was trying to think of a way to explain why this is stupid and also ghoulish. I think I came up with something.

Imagine you are an engineer designing body armor. You are tasked with making sure the body armor can stop 10 different types of bullets. In your first attempt, you create body armor that stops 6 of the 10 bullets. You start selling those because that's pretty good protection. You can save some lives while you continue to improve things.

You already know how to stop 6 bullets, but you really want to figure out how to stop the last 4. So you do exactly what you did before, but add a few more layers of Kevlar and a steel plate.

Your boss, RFK Jr., says he wants a test of the new and improved body armor. But he says you have to give one test subject the real thing and the other test subject fake body armor that does nothing.

And you're like, "Hey, can I at least give them the body armor that stops 6 bullets? We already know that gives some protection. We only need to compare the new armor to what we already accomplished."

And RFK says, "No, please shoot a person dead. It's science."

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A Comet In The Sky - March 28th, 1997.

"It had been suggested that Comet Hale-Bopp would become the most viewed comet in human history. At the time, for denizens of the Earth's northern hemisphere, this bright comet was certainly a lovely and inspiring sight - visible here crowning the sky above Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on March 20th, 1997. Based on orbital calculations, this comet's last passage through the inner Solar System was approximately 4,200 years ago. Principally because of changes caused by the gravitational influence of Jupiter, Hale-Bopp should pass this way again in a mere 2,380 years. Comets come from the outer reaches of the Solar System where they reside, frozen and preserved. Astronomers analysing their structure and composition as comets swing near the Sun seek a glimpse of the conditions during the Solar System's formative years."

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1999 The Sun The Moon and Stars

Greg Mort

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when the sun gets caught in a tree’s web 🌅 Credit @eric66699999

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A BUG'S LIFE (1998) dir. John Lasseter

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The first "baby picture" of the universe, photographed by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE).

COBE was the first NASA satellite to precisely measure and map the oldest light in the universe—the Cosmic Microwave Background. This all-sky map of slight hot and cold spots within this background let scientists glimpse the roots of the cosmic structure we see around us today. The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is a remnant of the Big Bang. These minute temperature variations (depicted here as varying shades of blue and purple) are linked to slight density variations in the early universe. These variations are believed to have given rise to the structures that populate the universe today: clusters of galaxies, as well as vast, empty regions. This image, representing data collected between 1990 and 1992, received much publicity at the time. It was later superseded by a more accurate four-year COBE map.

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Bambou Gili (American, 1996) - Deep Forest Creek (2024)

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A starry night sky and and an atmospheric glow

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Peder Severin Krøyer, (Norwegian-born Danish 1851-1909)

Summer evening with moonlight over the sea. Paddling boy 1904

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