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[somedaybitch]

"Both the LHC and the Space program are vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out. Together they cost less than one tenth of a per cent of world GDP. If the human race can not afford this, then it doesn't deserve the epithet 'human'."

-Steven Hawking

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guess it's quote day in my brain...

"When all is said and done, Civilizations do not fall because of the barbarians at the gates. Nor does a great city fall from the death wish of bored and morally bankrupt stewards presumably sworn to its defense. Civilizations fall only because each citizen of the city comes to accept that nothing can be done to rally and rebuild broken walls; that ground lost may never be recovered; and that greatness lived in our grandparents but not our grandchildren. Yes, our betters tell us these things daily. But that doesn’t mean we have to believe it."

they're not *my* betters and i most certainly do not believe them. life is hard. it's complicated. humans are messy, flawed and short-sighted. none of that is new, however. we choose to see the sky falling and it does. i choose not to and, lo, it does not. it sure gets heavy from time to time but that, my friends, is nowhere near the same thing.