We're just going to be up front about this: We have absolutely no good reason to post the above photo, and we're not even going to bother casting Tim Blake Nelson in the Discovery Channel's Zero Gravity: The Incredible True Story of Stephen Hawking's 25 Seconds of Flight to give ourselves even the flimiest of Hollywood tie-ins as an excuse. On a magical Friday morning like this one, when anything seems possible, just knowing that even a 65-year-old genius astrophysicist's wildest dreams can come true is justification enough.

[Photo: AP]

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