I think the statement/argument is not so much about the present, but about the future and Python is just an example. Can be any programming language.

Congratulations! Great and even race! It was a fantastic day...

Have a great race!

Die Zauberflöte

More seriously, this passage demonstrates just how deeply Newton was committed to the corpuscular view of things...

Seemed like a perfect description of setting up initial conditions for cosmological N-body simulations... 😆

esawebb.org/images/potm2...

I also think that most of the atoms in our bodies (definitely, oxygen, carbon, etc.) were inside stars in the past, and actually not one, but several different stars.

Here is a mid-infrared image of the same galaxy. The emission in this image is produced by the warm dust and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

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And here a lovely overview of #arxiv statistics from Ralph Wijers.

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