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Re:Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Ca... by whatshisface on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:33PM (#16435168)
>The moment he saw the brilliant light captured by his camera, “it all clicked” for Victor Buso: All the times his parents woke him before sunrise to gaze at the stars, all the energy he had poured into constructing an observatory atop his home, all the hours he had spent trying to parse meaning from the dim glow of distant suns.

It sounds to me that the sweat capital this guy poured in dwarfs by far the "social capital" of inspiration that the rest of us could have (and often) got from watching PBS shows.

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Re:Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Ca... by jxramos on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:28AM (#16435335)
It likely did, but that's why its even more remarkable, for social capital has a multiplying effect. Every parent wishes their child to surpass them in the end. All of this makes me think of that Created Equal episode of Milton Friedman's Free to Choose, https://youtu.be/YRLAKD-Vuvk?t=650 as well as the talk about family inheritance https://youtu.be/hoFdVuqrMZw?t=3928
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