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There's no today like tomorrow.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy. pic.twitter.com/ozZjFXRDQE
- Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) August 22, 2022
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And so it goes.
Requiem (ending)
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.[64]
- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005
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The Sirens of Titan
All eyes are on the Moon and Mars tonight, and so I am posting about the moon of Saturn, called Titan. Titan is considered to be the most likely harbinger of extraterrestrial life in the solar system, although there are other contenders, such as Europa, and Ceres: The tiny world where volcanoes erupt ice.
Titan Looks Cool in Infrared
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Meat is murder
Lost day
Lost decade
"I realized that I'd rather roll around in a pile of dead bugs than hang out with my friends anymore..." - awesome lj friend
( Tell yourself this was all just a bad dream. )
