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I love these kinds of presentations. I do however think this one doesn’t give as good an idea of scale as Cosmic Voyage did, but it’s a great clip nonetheless.

I was going to just add this video to my previous Digsby post, but I do believe it warrants its own page

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No, this isn’t Nigeria returning Hollywood’s favours. This is a concept I’ve heard of, but I’ve never seen applied in such a positive manner. For $10 you can get your name on a bit of space real-estate, and be informed of any future discoveries surrounding your star. Funds go to a non-profit organization (White Dwarf Research Corporation) and 100% of the proceeds are used to support scientific research on the stars that you actually adopt. I Adopted two stars – one for me, and one for my angel, right next to each other.

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