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"The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too." -Stephen Covey
"An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us." -Elon Musk
The Cape Town Orrery is dead. Its 32-eyed body lies in a black coffin in the Natural History Museum. Nobody is sure what to do with it.
Whenever I talk about black holes, I get questions from people worried that one will wander too close to Earth and destroy us all. The odds of that are what scientists like to call vanishingly small: So close to 0 the difference hardly matters. The percentage of stars that can turn into black holes is very low, and the galaxy is very, very big.
Here’s where to safely see starry night skies and constellations across the UAE