When the water hits your face.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

—Voltaire (via setbabiesonfire)

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Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato.

The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.”

—NASA Lunar Science Institute, We Originated in the Belly of a Star, 2012. (via setbabiesonfire)

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It’s scary business having a baby. Properly deciding that you want to have a child of your own is a big commitment and includes thinking about the financial impact, social impact, and just the overall fact that you’ll be bringing another life into the world that you’ll be responsible for for the…