Space-time Philosopher Mugs

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

"Trust me kiddo, even donkey's years fly by way too fast..."

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

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

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Creativity

"Can that be right?"

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

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

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

Questions

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

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

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

"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..."

"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."

"Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock."

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

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

'The big bang theory of creation.'

'let's work with what we've got -- take a few of the more promising apes, and add some extra memory.'

Crouching God Hidden Buddha

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

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

"...and at the edge of the universe it says 'Abandon hope, all ye who look beyond here'."

Planets in solar system form a New World Order.

Well, we found intelligent life, but we still haven't found ethical life.

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.

'...And the precise value of the Hubble constant is critical to the question of whether out universe will continue to expand forever, or...'

'Looking into the vastness of space makes me realize how insignificant you are.'

Man in a desert looks up to see a sand timer sprinkling sand below.