Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you’ve seen a shooting star ever, you’ve seen a cosmic collision, because a shooting star is not a star. It’s a tiny dust or pea sized fragment of an asteroid or a comet hitting our atmosphere and burning up as it hits in, as it comes in. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
I would encourage anybody who’s interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
Hubble wasn’t designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a little bit of modification to the software, it could look at solar system objects. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, ‘Eh. So what? Jupiter’s huge. Comets are small. And so when I saw the first impact site and it was huge and dark, I was flabbergasted. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation of our own solar system – as well as the solar systems beyond. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
Being insignificant statistically doesn’t mean it’s right or wrong. It just means you don’t have enough data to show yes or no. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
Climates always change. The question is, how are we going to adapt to climate change? Now, it may be true that we are accelerating it inadvertently by messing with our atmosphere, but regardless of that, the climate will change. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
Planetary missions are great, but they’re usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up. Heidi Hammel Read Quote
