Quotes About Space

How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed in space? Do we need to travel everywhere bringing destructive power on our ships, so as to smash anything that runs counter to our understanding?

Dice che una buona idea deve essere: sconfinata come gli spazzi freddi dell'Universo e precisa come la scelta di un gelato.

One viewed the existence of man then as a marvel, and conceded a glamour of wonder to these lice which were caused to cling to a whirling, fire-smote, ice-locked, disease-stricken, space-lost bulb.

Here's what I've learned about soon; it's short for someday. We make space in our lives for what matters, now. Not in promises and soons, but on mantels with sterling frames, in shelves we clear to make room for our now. Everything else i talk.

By reframing and redefining what the information space is, we unlock new possibilities

Interaction works as a kind of glue for understanding. It takes all the pieces of an understanding problem—representations in the world, the tools we work with, the space around us, and the computations in our head—and weaves them together.

When we extend information into our immediate surroundings, the space around us becomes a structure for holding information, which, in turn, reduces the individual cost of understanding. By using space in an intelligent way, we extend our cognitive abilities.

Those redshift numbers. The cephalopods must be leaving at close to light speed." "Where do you think they are going?" "Maybe that isn't the point, Maura. Maybe the point is what they are trying to flee.

Earth stuff, Mars boy.

And our sailors of space have a legend of the furthest star of all, where the gods lay their plans against us, or plot the catastrophes of the end of time: the pachacuti . We call this undiscovered star Karu, which means 'far'.' 'As we speak of Ultima,' Quintus mused.

Blake's Seven.

Colonists of, ah, Per Ardua, meet your autonomous colonisation unit!

But the Moon has its own intrinsic geography.

It is as if we are all embedded in a vast graph of possibilities, a graph with an axis marked time, for our own future destiny, and an axis marked space, for the possibilities of the universe.

A recent history of the British Aircraft Corporation's 'Mustard' concept of the 1960s is Dan Sharp's British Secret Projects 5: Britain's Space Shuttle (Crecy Publishing, 2016).

Space is for the cephalopods, Maura. It never was meant for us.

Stephen Baxter

Water in space would be hugely valuable, far more so the gold, given the cost of hauling water up from Earth. On b moon, water would support life, and using electrolysis (pass ing an electric current through it) water can be broken dow into hydrogen and oxygen to make rocket fuel. The moon could become a filling station outside Earth's deep gravity field that could be used to support a general expansion ins the solar system, just as was dreamed of before Apollo.

Maybe it doesn't have to be the way Jake Sully bleakly summarized it to Eywa. Maybe there is a way for us to keep the Earth green, without giving up our civilization and all the benefits it brings: by using the resources of space.

But in that space were crammed humans, not animals.

Earth was the first planet to be terraformed.

Stephen Baxter

They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space.

Ohio has produced 23 astronauts. Tell me, what is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?