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NASA advisor. Antarctic explorer. Author (https://t.co/POt1wWvuuP). Global director @ScienceHackDay. YouTuber https://t.co/Gf4aP1VquO. Art school grad.
Mar 1, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, Famed pale blue dot image taken by Voyager 1 spacecraft, sho lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter & forager, every hero & coward, every creator & destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, Famed pale blue dot image taken by Voyager 1 spacecraft, sho
Aug 7, 2019 13 tweets 11 min read
NASA is offering funding to visionary ideas (from a variety of disciplines) that can be applied to transforming the future of space exploration or aeronautics. Application is a 3-page white paper that’s due September 20. niacfellows.org (1/12) The program is known as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) - @NASAIAC. It funds early studies of bright ideas. This is where to propose never-been-done-before ideas that likely wouldn’t be funded anywhere else. ~12 awards are given in the amount of $125,000 each. (2/12)