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For the lazy:

• Margaret Burbidge

• Geoffrey Burbidge

• William Alfred Fowler

• Fred Hoyle

Shamelessly stealing this link from r_slash:

• The paper they wrote together that made them famous: B² FH paper

Does this depress you as much as it depresses me?

A 1997 poll reported that Americans had an average estimate of 20% for NASA's share of the federal budget, far higher than the actual 0.5% to under 1% that has been maintained throughout the late 90's and first decade of the 2000s.

[from wikipedia]

Mother of God.

If I could finish a novel in an hour, I'd be an English major too.

Oh, good. Because I have no idea what subjunctive means.

So it's super badass and awesome that we landed a spacecraft on a comet, but can you tell us a little more about what we've learned / hope to learn from the mission?

(Hopefully a little more specific than the "learn about our solar system's origins" that everyone keeps repeating)