henceforth I spread confident wings to space
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latest archive about email links yearbook japan photoblog wish list	Tue Feb 11 03 / 12:26 AM Present analyses of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) all-sky image indicate that the universe is 13.7 billion years old (accurate to 1 percent), composed of 73 percent dark energy, 23 percent cold dark matter, and only 4 percent atoms, is currently expanding at the rate of 71 km/sec/Mpc (accurate to 5 percent), has a flat geometry, and will expand forever. NASA releases this statement a week after the Columbia shuttle was destroyed with 7 astronauts aboard, and every big question asked about the Universe since the invention of science is suddenly answered. And I am blown away. Seven astronauts are dead, but they died immediately after the fulfillment of the one thing that would let them die happy, and who should be so lucky? The destruction of the Columbia and her crew was a tragedy because of the damage it will do to the space program. Because funding will be diverted from exploration to war. Because machines will be sent to replace humans in space, when science is meant to do the opposite. Because space will be pushed farther and farther from our own lifetimes. But the scientists, the explorers, the fans who love space because they love Star Trek, never stop looking up. Even when the shuttles come crashing down, taking lives and funding and the future of manned spaceflight with them, we continue to look up. We have the ability to answer questions as large as the Universe while seated on Earth, but to move further along the human destiny we must leave it. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
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