July 2012
People talk about chance encounters all the time but I could never quite relate to those stories. Every time I left my house, I left with a certain determination; I had to be at work on time, I was meeting up with friends, a sandwich needed to be eaten. I had my earphones in, walking as fast as possible, this is New York after all. In two years, I have rarely taken the time to just walk, to soak in the humanity bustling around me.
With a smile on my face and an open mind, I will leave my house. I will let whatever happens, happen. This is a day for me and the rest of the world to finally meet, no inhibitions, no limitations and no expectations.
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Teen girl from Egypt has just reinvented space travel →
now.msn.com
Egyptian Aisha Mustafa, 19, has dazzled the physics world with a new invention that could launch spacecraft off the Earth’s surface and soaring through space without any fuel. Space is filled with a billowing sea of quantum particles that jump in and out of existence, and Aisha Mustafa proposes using thin silicon panels, spaced closely together, to trap these particles and then move against them, creating a propelling force. This innovation would make space exploration lighter, safer and cheaper than the traditional “blast off” method. Mustafa still has some design work to do, but unfortunately her research is currently limited by lack of state funding for space science departments at the university level, though her school’s science club did help fund her application for a patent.
What a woman.
Fucking pro