"Girls go to College
to get more knowledge;
Boys go to Jupiter
to get more stupider"
by Á. age 6 1/4
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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." -Galileo Galilei
Yesterday, we started our goodbyes to Hubble's outgoing camera, WFPC2. It was literally 16 years ago that they first installed this workhorse onto the space telescope:
"A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our Earth, and the layout of the continents. We are now just learning the dimensions and ingredients of our entire cosmos, and can at last make some sense of our cosmic habitat." -Martin Rees
I hope someone lets her know we don't have to go nearly that far to get "more stupider." We can do it without moving.
This makes even more sense in Berkeley where there's a bar called Jupiter...
She was very taken with the Bay Area during our spring tour...
Her original version was "boys go to Mars/to get candy bars"
which was good, but didn't quite have the sting of the final version.