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- Kelper allowed observation to correct his own beliefs and assumptions

- Tycho Brahe’s precise observations of Mars were key. A tiny discrepancy of eight arcminutes was enough to show Kelper that circular orbits were wrong

- Kepler discovered that planets move in elliptical orbits, change speed depending on how close they are to the sun, and follow a mathematical relationship between distance and orbital time

- The smallest known free living organisms are the PPLO (pleuropneumonia-like organisms). They are composed of about 50 million atoms.
- Even if life on another planet has the same molecular chemistry as life on Earth, there is no reason to expect it to resemble familiar organisms

- All life on Earth shares a common evolutionary ancestry
- The artificial selection of Heike crabs resembling samurai warriors are an example of evolution through natural selection
- Well-adapted organisms are the result of enormous amounts of evolutionary filtering
- How did the universe go from non-living matter to living organisms? Sagan believes life can arise naturally from chemistry under the right conditions

- Humanity stands at the "shore" of a vast cosmic ocean
- Eratosthenes, head of the Library of Alexandria, calculated the Earth’s size over 2,000 years ago using shadows, distance and geometry
- Ancient Alexandria shows how scientific understanding grew through questioning assumptions about the natural world
- Curiosity and exploration drive us to look beyond what we already know, and understand how we fit into it

yay dragons 😎

craving dragons again

uhh wdym there’s another metal?????

There is so much happening but I’m slowly getting closer to the end… what the heck is gonna happen at the end?!?!