Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.
When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.
A lot of them complain because they say the word denial puts them in the same bin as holocaust deniers. That's too bad. But the thing is, they do have something in common: a denial of evidence and of scientific consensus.
Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.
Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.
Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places. . . and that's just at Saturn.
. . . if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress is won by the good temper and grace displayed while dancing. . . for dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers are in good health and sound of limb, after which they are permitted to kiss their mistresses in order that they may touch and savor one another thus to ascertain if they are shapley or emit an unpleasant odor as of bad meat. Therefore, from this standpoint, quite apart from the many other advantages to be derived from dancing, it becomes an essential to a well-ordered society.
I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.