Starmus: The Adventure is Just Beginning (Day 2)

Starmus: The Adventure is Just Beginning (Day 2)

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Tuesday was another inspirational day at Starmus, filled to the brim with dynamic speakers and hearty intellectual fodder. Sessions were moderated by former SETI director (and one of my personal heroes) Jill Tarter, whose no-nonsense personality won me over immediately — as I am also “a stickler for the rules.” :)

Listening to music on the final day of his mission=the most emotional moment of Rusty Schweickart’s space flight

What the festival makes clear is that science and art don’t know that they are separate.

The pale blue dot meets the global selfie. Longing to grasp the meaning of our existence

The story of Cassini is a story of longing. Of longing to know more. –

We are redefining ourselves not to be masters of nature, but collaborators with nature. –

Even harder than studying cosmology = studying human behavior. – Edward Moser

I have hope in this new generation because they were born global, with that sense of connectivity. –

Anyone born after 1995 = Generation Exoplanet. –

Science can inform, but it cannot decide. – Chris Rapley

The ocean acts as a liquid thermometer for climate change – Chris Rapley

Keeping astrophysicists & cosmologists to a 20 minute time limit is a challenge of galactic proportions :) Well done !

Our dark dark universe by

In astronomy, we can only guess at the future, but we can actually *see* the past.

Great visual – triangle has different shapes based on curvature of universe

Note: You can also check out the videos I took during #Starmus2016, which are in this playlist: