Collection of brief poetic-scientific thoughts (Twitter)

Scientific poetry is in the minds of scientists who do not always know the words to describe it.

It is also in the minds of poets who marvel at a science they may not fully understand.

Poetry and science seem to be antagonistic at first view but at some point, they find the chemical bonds that join the words. The verses follow the correct curves in the three-dimensional space of the world. The emotions of the endocrine system spill out into stanzas: and a soul of schists becomes sensitive when writing a poem…scientific, of course.

Here is a collection of brief poetic-scientific thoughts that the polyhedron has found in its virtual trips through Twitter.

 

Scientific (and technological) poetry: Two poems for Laika, the space dog

On November 3, 1957, the dog Laika was sent into space on a journey of no return. 

Laika was a stray dog ​​and she was the first living being in an Earth orbit as well. Today, she is remembered on the list of the fallen Soviet comonauts in the Star City, at the Northeast of Moscow. We now know that she died few hours after the launch due to a failure of the capsule's thermal insulator.

Although I already knew about Laika and her travel to the space, I did not know the whole sad story of this little dog. I recently learned about what happened and it impressed me very much. In this post, I share a poem of that time and a poem that I wrote to her.