Outer Space Philosopher Gifts

'This can't be good.'

Very Difficult Conversations

"He's declared it an area of natural beauty"

"You can't possibly know how I feel. Everybody likes you."

"Do you think the birds like me?"

"What if Newton came up with a different idea from a fallen apple."

Coronavirus

Creativity

"When I was your age, we wished on stars. Now, we wish on satellites!"

"We've all said things about heliocentricity that look bad when taken out of context."

Questions

"I've thought about retiring, but there's a great deal of gravity under this chair."

"I've been supporting life for billions of years! You'd think they'd be supporting themselves by now!"

"Tracks of black bear cub... Tracks of black bear mother... Tracks of Henry David Thoreau."

'God?' Earth receives its first transmission from space.

"Lighten up! Your charts aren't that bad."

"Shall we put it in play?"

'Look at him out there... so cold, so distant. Why do I always fall for the bad boys?'

Eviction Notice for Earth...

"What, then, is theorigin of cosmology? Some say it has always been with us and always will be. Some think it arrived spontaneously, while others feel it started very small and is expanding..."

'The big bang theory of creation.'

"Since I got out here, it seems my mind is like it's in a vacuum."

"Let us recall the parable of Jesus turning the other tentacle."

The Farmer Sutra.

"Kind of makes you realize how insignificant my awesome beard is."

"I've never read such utter nonsense! There's a guy here reckons we're all living in some kind of computer simulation!!"

'By George, this one I think I'm going to like!'

I've realized something: It's likely that there's only one way for mankind to reach the stars in our lifetimes. Do tell. Scientists believe we'll be able to upload our minds in just 30 years. That means NASA could upload everyone's mind to a robot, and launch it into space. We wouldn't need life support. We wouldn't be affected by radiation or anything. We could even sleep for the 100 years or so it took to get to the nearest star. Then that robot could build more robots and download our minds t

"I love the way it blurs the boundary between inside and out."

Crouching God Hidden Buddha

'I became a bit claustrophobic living in a warren all the time: I prefer camping out now...'

'I know just how you feel. Sometimes I think I'm living on the wrong planet too.'

'If the Sun doesn't explode in five billion years, do you realize how foolish we'll look?'

The moon used to be a ghostly, unreachable companion in the night sky. Men and women would gaze at it at night, and its mystery would get them in the mood for lovin'. House of Java . Net Cybercafe. Then NASA had to go louse it all up by sending people there. It took decades of us giving up and abandoning the moon for it to start to seem untouchable again. Just last year, it finally regained its magic ... Then China went and landed on it. I still don't think you can sue China.

"Wow, it almost makes me feel as insignificant as an unpaid internship."