On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

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in 1977, NASA launched their Voyager mission. The main objective of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes was to study Jupiter and Saturn. After each fulfilled their objectives, they kept going, out into the far reaches of our solar system. Voyage 1 is now traversing through the very outside of…

Posted on: Feb 23, 2012 at 6:33 PM

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    Love this article.
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    …..Honestly thought this was talking about Star Trek for about 10 seconds…. D:
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Natural histories

'All of nature is series and pivot, like Pythagoras' numbers, like the transmutations of light. Give me a sparrow, he said, a leaf, a fish, a wasp, an ox, and I will show you the harmony of its place in its chord, the phrase, the movement, the concerto, the all'