Sleeping on couches to Santa Barbara planets conference

I am so grateful to the kind people who have hosted me on their couches so that I could attend the Exoplanet Conference in Santa Barbara, California. Some astronomers even gave me some help paying the conference fee. I am deeply grateful to the people helping me stay in the field -- and the conference talks have been wonderful. So exciting to hear the work on the planets being found, and the expectations for what habitable planets may be like. My planet destruction project is also receiving a good welcome!