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It's been a fun week for science because, you know, we're orbiting the moon right now, which is exciting. I mean, I'll start. That's kind of where I, where I'm at. Yeah. So as everyone probably saw, we now have Artemis 2 coming back from, uh the moon seeing the dark side all sorts of cool

stuff apparently they saw some asteroid impacts which is pretty cool crazy yeah love everything

about it in fact my favorite post online was they they posted the photo of earth and i love the

fact that photo earth is upside down.

See, just one goes to show you that there is no right set up in space.

But more importantly, I loved all the comments that were like, what is that?

What continent is that?

People were genuinely like, I don't know if they're trying to be conspiratorial.

But they were asking a question. And I was so pleased to see all the responses be like, oh, turn it upside down. That's Africa. You can see the straight at Gibraltar. People were really answering questions. That's cool. And at one point, someone was like, what's that green glow? And everyone's like, that's the Aurora Borealis. I love that.

I genuinely had a moment of like, yeah.

They always say what is like, what's the value in space exploration?

It costs so much.

And I'm like, there, right there.

It makes us better humans to know that we all like as a species are leaving earth.

And bro, we learn some crazy shit when we do space research.

Like we learn just by looking into shit, we learn like, that's like how we've done most

shit that we've made is by researching space.

There was another person was asking like, well,

if there's no gravity, how is that thing on the table just there? And someone was like, Velcro was invented by NASA. And I was like, yes, they weren't being like, shut the fuck on. People were like, let me explain it to you. And I was so pleased as like a teacher, just so pleased. But anyway, the thing I wanted to get to

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