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During his 10-day stay at the ISS, Mr. Laliberté will share information about water-related issues through an artistic and poetic mission, themed “Moving Stars and Earth for Water”. The message he transmits from space will help to raise awareness for the ONE DROP Foundation. The centerpiece event will take place on October 9 from space and in 14 cities simultaneously around the world... Central to the mission is a poem written by Canadian author Yann Martel. The tale will be delivered piece by piece, one destination at a time.

So he going to be reading a poem about the rustle of nature in super-hushed tones and beaming it—line by slowly enunciated line—to various cities all over the planet. Sure you might smirk about how it's a little bit cheesy and a lot pretentious. But he'll be doing it from mother-effing space. How awesome is that? Are you in space? No, no you are not.

The picture, by the by, is the actual Soyuz TMA-16 that Laliberté took to orbit. It was a NASA Image Of The Day last week. The full picture should give you a sense as to why.

[Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls / Wiki Commons]

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