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Marco "more boyfriends than limbs" Bott ([personal profile] vonkrieg) wrote in [personal profile] nomoneystillproblems 2015-04-10 12:57 am (UTC)

D110 sorry

[Pilot had loaned him the book some days ago, and while he'd had plenty of time to pore over it while he was resting in medical, it's a thick enough tome that he still hasn't reached the back cover. (The whole venture is slowed down by translation issues too - he has to wait for his cuff to spit up real-life subtitles for him as he goes down each page.)]

FROM: bott.marco@cdc.org

Peter this is insane. Did you know that not only is this planet spinning but it's orbiting around the sun too, not to mention this entire solar system is rotating around the center of the galalxy and the


[Woah, too much nerd excitement for one text.]

FROM: bott.marco@cdc.org

galaxy itself is moving? Well it says here that galaxies just look like they're moving but it's actually that the space between them is increasing because the univers is growing bigger.


FROM: bott.marco@cdc.org

So even if we're standing still we're constantly moving and we're never in the same exact spot twice. It's unbelievable!


[Any typos are due to some combination of a. his one-armed state of being and b. his academic euphoria.]

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