I’m not sure if it is the three hours of sleep I had last night, the eleven hour restaurant shift with one tiny break, or the fact that I had to explain, in grave detail, the basic restrictions regarding that new planet discovery thing to coworkers who were excited that we would live on another planet in our lifetime.
“Well, it’s 600 light years away. Light years. It means the pictures we have from it are like, really old. It might not even be there now. And that’s not 600 years in a shuttle because shuttles don’t go nearly that fast.”
“No, NASA is working on finding a way to detect water on planets that far away. It hasn’t figured it out yet.”
“It’s not necessarily habitable, they just note that is is much like Earth in many ways that other planets are not.”
“Avatar was a SciFi movie, not a documentary.”
“You realize that more money is spent on the AC for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan each year than all of NASA, don’t you? Why would I make that up?”
“I heard it on NPR yesterday. Public Radio. No, not Rush Limbaugh. 90.7. No, it’s not boring and it is a reputable news source. It’s not public opinion call in in talk radio. Nevermind.”
p.s. currently looking into graduate programs.
