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“Hey there June bug, wacha got there?” Ashton blinked and paused his work to look towards the little girl that tugged at the hem of his shirt, holding onto a piece of paper. He bent down to be on her level as she revealed the masterpiece done and it was pushed into Ashton’s hands. “Aw June.. is this for me?” It was such a strange mix of emotions seeing the little beautiful drawn art gifted to him, it was just the most endearing thing ever to see her enjoying space enough to draw it, and that he hoped those books were of her interest enough to distract from the horrors they lived in with the beauty of everything else out there. And somewhere in there was tossed with nostalgia, as if young Ashton was right there with her drawing too, much more badly than this talented girl could, thinking of the wonders of the universe and daydreamed about the future. 

The brightest smile broke through in the short moment of silence before he kept himself in check to respond, “how many more secret talents you got up your sleeves? This is beautiful thank you.. you captured space perfectly.” Perfectly enough in his heart. He flashed a grin as he showed her her own work of art, pulling out a pen from his desk, “this definitely needs to get framed, and you gotta add your own artist signature down below too. And than after that, how about we find a place to display it?”

Someone previously mentioned the name was ‘Opportunity,’ but either way that is incredible. 

"Firstly, the North Star can't be seen in the southern hemisphere in a place like let's say Australia, which wouldn't make sense if we were on a flat surface. Similarly how the southern cross generally can't be seen in the northern hemisphere unless you're below 26 degrees north. Secondly, the sun on the equinox over the equator follows a straight line. This means that, for a 24 hour period, the sun moves in a straight path above the 'flat earth' while always being visible, but yet finds itself back to where it started without rotating or teleporting. This requires that the earth curves. Thirdly, commercial flight times, from the America's West Coast to the Oceania and Asia. At the end of the day, the greatest problem with flat earth is, and always will be, geometry. But I know Flat Earthers will discount all of these anyways, it's easier to convince them to join another conspiracy groups to abandon this one.

...I once had fun getting my astrophysics students to find the best arguments against flat earth theories in class." @rioreeve

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"Hmph, I don't have anything good to say to them. Except you're completely heartless if you don't look at this image and feel bad saying it's not deserving to be a planet."

"Well, one of my favorite summarized thoughts on space that stuck with me is from Carl Sagan, that the Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. The only home we’ve ever known. I think it's humbling to know we're so small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things, so who knows what else is out there?

...I mean, space sucks, literally and figuratively. Might just be the vacuum."