CM scraps

Scraps and blurbs for "Celestial Mechanics" that don't really fit easily in the timeline. 
==Vera Rubin==
shmoo92 sent a photoset, "Vera Rubin"
shmoo92: We must find out what resources of hers were around in 2006 so Edan can be starry eyed about her work
pickle-plum: HIIIIIIVEMIND.
shmoo92 sent a GIF
pickle-plum: she'd already done the groundbreaking dark matter work by then.
pickle-plum: BUT 2006 is the year she's featured in a BBC documentary on dark matter-ish stuff.
shmoo92: Yes, right, I was thinking that women and their accomplishments are either claimed by men or are quietly worked around so Edan may not have heard of her
shmoo92: So the letter he sends Hermann:
shmoo92: "I AM IN LOVE
[full page portrait of ms rubin]
SHE IS EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE
(Please overlook the fact I'm not a woman nor Jewish nor [nationality].)
I want to be her. Or marry her. Or be her intern/assistant/indentured servant/furniture/ANYTHING.
She did all the things I want to do! She laid the ground work for all the things I /want to do! (future tense)
Oh my god Hermann she is /so /great--
Hey, if I married you, would that take care of the Jewish part?"
pickle-plum: love. it.
pickle-plum: (he would've heard of her because, at the very least, she got the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for her work in 1996.
pickle-plum: so I'm gonna guess that if he didn't find her on his own, the manchester program probably would've brought her up, especially seeing as one of their focuses is dark matter)
pickle-plum: (FYI: she's a USAmerican, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
pickle-plum: i will find a place for this letter!
pickle-plum: (I'm guessing "Darkness" is the place. He repeats her quote about the space between stars, then launches into this, maybe.)
shmoo92: Oooo, I like it in "Darkness!"
shmoo92: "Also--[portrait] I AM IN LOVE. etc."
pickle-plum: i will find a picture, too!
pickle-plum: quick image search turned up Ms Rubin and John Glenn at a function together. though it's a crap image of her.
pickle-plum: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/31055019574/in/photolist-8v5kES-56Uekn-a3873T-6gkEo4-Pje6nY-Qq3d3g-LH4Akk-a3884V
shmoo92: I love it!!
shmoo92: She looks a lot like my gramma
shmoo92:*like my gramma, actually
shmoo92: So I'm possibly biased that it's a wonderful picture of her
pickle-plum: i love the smile, the only concerns i have with it is the way the composition makes her secondary to Glenn and she has her eyes closed.
pickle-plum: and here's one of her at gramma age.
pickle-plum: http://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2014/11/Vera-Rubin.jpg
shmoo92: Can you crop it so he's partially cut off?
pickle-plum: yep, cropping's no problem.
pickle-plum: [image]
pickle-plum: here we are cropped down to just her face. 
pickle-plum: here we've reduced Glenn to a phantom wrist.
pickle-plum: [image]
pickle-plum: now he's a disembodied hand.
pickle-plum: while I'm thinking about female astronomers, I'm pretty sure most of Edan's astrophysicists at the PPDC are female.
pickle-plum: one of them will take over as the lead after he dies until their funding is removed, then she tries to keep it up from academia.
pickle-plum: (while Hermann does his best to take over from /within the PPDC)
shmoo92: So her position's removed and Hermann fights to get it back?
pickle-plum: yea, that would be the first stage. when it's clear the astrophysics department is no more and never will be again, hermann takes it on himself to carry on in their place in the time he doesn't need to spend on coding.
==Jewellery==
shmoo92 sent a photo post, "diamondsinthelibrary: Chanel “Facettes” ring in 18-karat white gold set with 158 brilliant-cut diamonds for a total weight of 2.3 carats and 27 fancy-cut sapphires for a total w eight of 21.4 carats. Via The Jewellery Editor."
shmoo92: Probably too gaudy for Starcrossed
pickle-plum: yeaaaaa ....
pickle-plum: Edan would /probably wear it, but i doubt they could afford it.
shmoo92: No, no they couldn't XD
==Joy Division==
shmoo92 sent a video
pickle-plum: niiiiiiiiiice.
shmoo92: But did you notice the 'victim's' shirt? :D
pickle-plum: totally did.
pickle-plum: XD
shmoo92: Essssselllent
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