Correlation Doesn’t Imply Causation, But It Does

Space Is About 100 Kilometers Away. That’s Far Away—i Wouldn’t Want To Climb A Ladder To Get There—but It Isn’t That Far Away. If You’re In Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, Central Japan, Central Sri Lanka, Or Portland, Space Is Closer Than The Sea.

The Universe Is Probably Littered With One-planet Graves

I Used To Work At Nasa In Virginia. It Was Nothing Glamorous; I Was Just Tasked With Making Code Compile For Obscure Projects, And I Wasn't Very Good At It. Now I Spend Most Of My Time Drawing Pictures And Looking At Funny Things On The Internet, Which In Retrospect Is Largely What I Did At My Old Job, Too.

But I’ve Never Seen The Icarus Story As A Lesson About The Limitations Of Humans. I See It As A Lesson About The Limitations Of Wax As An Adhesive.

Take Wrong Turns. Talk To Strangers. Open Unmarked Doors. And If You See A Group Of People In A Field, Go Find Out What They Are Doing. Do Things Without Always Knowing How They'll Turn Out.