First things first. Alex Filippenko is a highly regarded and highly visible cosmologist and professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley.
Now, if you’ve watched as many documentaries about space as I have (you haven’t, trust me) you’d come to find two things strange about Mr. Filippenko (Or Captain Supernovae as I like to call him, and I’d like to think he wouldn’t mind that I do):
1. The man doesn’t age. I have watched docs from the early 90s straight through to 2 months ago. He’s in 70% of them. He looks EXACTLY the same.
2. He smiles. All the time. And not just a weird “Hey I’m on TV smile” but a deep and genuine “SPACE IS AWESOME” smile. I would describe the man as the heretofore undiscovered “Jolly Scientist”. He can and will map out the literal end of the universe with a certain gravity (jazzhands), sure, but I guarantee you he’s smiling while he explains it to you. Moreover, he’s probably using helpful props to help you understand how you’ll die.
Hypothesis: Alex Filippenko is the undiscovered Cheshire Cat of Cosmology.
Now, whether he’s alive or dead is up to Susskind.
I’m awfully grateful that you cats bother with me at all.
with the liquor and drugs.
how am i the first person to reblog this piece of classic american music. how.
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I learned today that Zeroth is a thing.
As in, “Congratulations, you came in zeroth place!”
It was then that I realized I’ve won so many awards and contests and didn’t even know.
What does this mean?
It means the shirt is fake, and that’s sad.
Or the fake shirt is sad.
Or that person has the fake shirt sads and needs to talk.
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