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[New post] Tonight I Learn that We Live in a Croissant-shaped Bubble in Space

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Tonight I Learn that We Live in a Croissant-shaped Bubble in Space

Luisa A. Igloria

Sep 12

                  "The only clue is pleasure." ~ Claire Schwartz  Would you rather be a landmine  remover or a firefighter? Both  involve risk of sudden explosions.  Would you rather be a stuntman  or sanitation worker? Someone has to jump  the car wreck then pick up the pieces.  How about an oil rig worker or prison guard? A scientist or Lego  master model builder; chocolate taster  or boulanger, which is a fancier term for bread maker? I learned the hard way that yeast  can be killed if the water  is too hot, that egg whites  won't form soft peaks if  the bowl is even a smidge wet. Think of how, for every job,  someone must have had to practice   countless times: the chemist  figuring out the particle differences  between poison and the benign,   the podiatrist making copious notes on ingrown toenails and plantar fasciitis. Tonight I learned   that heliosphere is the name  for the field in space in which our solar system is tucked—   like a long sheet of cling wrap  sheltering us from solar fires and magnetic forces  that would otherwise bend us out of shape or turn us into unknown mutations of ourselves. Scientists   up the road at NASA are saying that this pocket holding us and other planets is shaped more like a croissant—  I peer at the simulation image which does  somewhat resemble the flaky layered  pastry which my husband   loves so much and which I can get "free," four to a box, if I buy a tub of chicken  salad at the grocery. Curled  on its side, red lines stripe it like  a banneton would. Perhaps this represents  that magnetic shield; and we are somewhere   tucked there in the sweet-salty middle, all  together with floury constellations while  the oven temperature rises steadily.                  
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