# outerheaven

> A letter of hope: poetry, care for the living, and scientific discovery.

Canonical page: https://outerheaven.ink/

## Words on the postcard

Let everything
happen to you:
beauty and terror.
Just keep going.
No feeling is final.

Source: Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours · trans. Barrows & Macy.

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Source: Walt Whitman, Song of Myself.

From womb to tomb,
we are bound to others.

Source: Sonmi-451, Cloud Atlas · 2012.

I will face my fear.

Source: Frank Herbert, Dune · Litany Against Fear.

The kingdom of God
is within you.

Source: Luke 17:21, King James Version.

## Original passages

salt in my air, ink in my lungs, i am alive in this moment

i found the ocean in my heart and let it crash over me

the waves love the ocean as i love you

Source: text supplied by the site owner.

## Marginal notes

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Ole lempeä eläville. — Be gentle with the living.

Prenez soin du vivant. — Care for the living world.

命を大切に。 — Cherish life.

Olet tervetullut. — You are welcome.

no deliverable required.

dignity ≠ utility — Worth is not conditional on usefulness. An ethical statement.

∀r ∈ readers: welcome(r) — Every reader is welcome. An ethical invitation, not an empirical or mathematical proof.

## Scientific figures on the postcard

### One living family.

Hug et al. 2016, Supplementary Dataset 2. Circular rendering of the published maximum-likelihood ribosomal-protein tree, preserving topology and branch lengths; 3,083 terminal taxa. Labels omitted at clipping scale. These are sampled genomes/taxa, not a census of all species.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201648

### We measured the afterglow.

Fixsen et al. 1996; Fixsen & Mather 2002. Published monopole spectrum in MJy/sr; 1-sigma uncertainty converted from kJy/sr. Curve uses T=2.725 K. Error bars are smaller than symbols at this scale.

Source: https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/cobe/firas/monopole_spec/firas_monopole_spec_v1.txt

### We heard spacetime.

GW150914 discovery-paper Fig. 1 observed and waveform H/L text files. Detector-specific processed strain and model are shown at their supplied time coordinates; these are not raw detector data.

Source: https://gwosc.org/events/GW150914/

## Invitation

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