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"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it." - Samuel Johnson I have a six-sided die. I'm going to roll it ten times, and record each roll. And when I'm done, I'm going to have an incredibly rare, bet-you-can't-reproduce-it result!

"Computers don't make mistakes. What they do, they do on purpose." -Dale Gribble, King of the Hill Alright, so I know you're all impatient with the most burning Starts With A Bang! question of all: what was Ethan for Halloween? Well, without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to my avatar for the next 12 months: King Triton from Disney's The Little Mermaid!

"Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive." -Josh Brolin How do you figure out what something is made of? You take it apart -- cracking it open if necessary -- and look inside. This is something we've been doing since... well, since before our ancestors were even human.

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell." -Edna St. Vincent Millay

"The Universe is made mostly of dark matter and dark energy, and we don't know what either of them is." -Saul Perlmutter

Asteroid dust, black holes almost biting off more than they can chew, Mars, Mars and…Mars. These are only some of the most out-there space finds of 2021. There were also, among other curiosities and objects of fascination, a perilous brush with the Sun and an asteroid-crushing mission straight out of a video game. Of course, this was the year of Perseverance and Ingenuity (there is a reason Krispy Kreme released a donut in the image of Mars when the launch happened).

 “Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle!” -Sanya Richards-Ross

"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity." -Jean Dubuffet