To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.

We are only intelligent by our own measures

Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.