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The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries
by Dr Jillian Scudder
funny
informative
medium-paced
In the words of that Lady General Faora-Ul during her beat downs of many including Kal-Al:
If History has proven anything, it is that evolution always wins.
A Good Death is its own reward
In the next 3-5 billion years when our lonely sun becomes a Red Giant while or as a result of the Milk Way crashing Slowly into the Andromeda - I would hope to at least have one descendent safely stowed away in a space pod floating in a not-so-far away galaxy watching as our galaxy and Andromeda create a new one with their leftovers from theirs.
It would probably look very epic. The ultimate Space Opera
Jillian Scudder wanted to make this as relatable to YA readers and maybe even people who were tired of picking up "Astronomy for Dummies" books. For me, I'd have loved to have this as my suggested reading in my first year - it would have put the real and sciency books into a bite-sizeable chunks.
This is chock full of relatable connections to theories that no one can hold in their hands and prove thanks to the vastness and impossibility of phasing into any part of the universe all willy nilly to conduct experiments. What I enjoyed is that the majority of the empirical data gathered and reviewed via a method called "wait....and watch". Point to a telescope there and WATCH. Thankfully, robotic telescopes have nothing better to do.
I felt like I was actually back at university and attending my favorite lecture - the Professor was engaging, provided anecdotes, bite sized morsels of context, just short of anthropomorphizing the object of focus yet creating this bond between the students and the material. I enjoyed getting to know some new things I had no clue about, like how about those Necromancer Supermassive Black Holes just reviving some faded star for no good reason. Or that enigma that is the Perseus Supermassive Back Hole humming away on a b flat tone. or the Fermi Bubbles and how about a good hum. How musical.
To recap, these Blackholes can be Necromancing Muscians with gravity as their grave diggers - and there are at centers of galaxies, I oversimplify it ...but how cool is that.
If History has proven anything, it is that evolution always wins.
A Good Death is its own reward
In the next 3-5 billion years when our lonely sun becomes a Red Giant while or as a result of the Milk Way crashing Slowly into the Andromeda - I would hope to at least have one descendent safely stowed away in a space pod floating in a not-so-far away galaxy watching as our galaxy and Andromeda create a new one with their leftovers from theirs.
It would probably look very epic. The ultimate Space Opera
Jillian Scudder wanted to make this as relatable to YA readers and maybe even people who were tired of picking up "Astronomy for Dummies" books. For me, I'd have loved to have this as my suggested reading in my first year - it would have put the real and sciency books into a bite-sizeable chunks.
This is chock full of relatable connections to theories that no one can hold in their hands and prove thanks to the vastness and impossibility of phasing into any part of the universe all willy nilly to conduct experiments. What I enjoyed is that the majority of the empirical data gathered and reviewed via a method called "wait....and watch". Point to a telescope there and WATCH. Thankfully, robotic telescopes have nothing better to do.
I felt like I was actually back at university and attending my favorite lecture - the Professor was engaging, provided anecdotes, bite sized morsels of context, just short of anthropomorphizing the object of focus yet creating this bond between the students and the material. I enjoyed getting to know some new things I had no clue about, like how about those Necromancer Supermassive Black Holes just reviving some faded star for no good reason. Or that enigma that is the Perseus Supermassive Back Hole humming away on a b flat tone. or the Fermi Bubbles and how about a good hum. How musical.
To recap, these Blackholes can be Necromancing Muscians with gravity as their grave diggers - and there are at centers of galaxies, I oversimplify it ...but how cool is that.