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author seems like a decent human being, is what i’m saying, which is flinchingly rare in STEM.

very good balance between “this is the likely state of things” and humility, like “we know enough to make xyz educated guesses but NOT enough to say that they’re more than a guess, or average, which could make it a useless knowledge for any particular that falls outside of the average”

reaaaaaally enjoying his emphasis on “this is a guess and here are the reasons why it’s not even a particularly useful guess”

really good & very well-explained but VERY slow going for me,, since i barely passed my science / math classes in grade school and that was decades ago. it took me four tries to understand wtf a parsec is (but i got it now)

aha, i like this author. “we will only be discussing the work of honest scientists” — preach it, my dude

i’m sorry, the sun HEATS ITSELF by EATING ITSELF? what the fuck