Delta-v

Sorry. Just paralyzed by the indescribable beauty of the cosmos. We'll get to work.

Well, for once in my life, I not only know why I’m here, at this place, I finally know why I exist. I’ve always wondered why I was so odd. What possible evolutionary purpose could a person like me serve? No kids. Focused on my own experiences... This is my purpose. This has always been the purpose of people like us. We blaze trails. We chart oceans. We push back frontiers. Without us, humanity slowly dies.

Adisa did manage to tune in Earth radio stations, and occasionally he would play music or news throughout the habs. The news was strangely the same—war, political crisis, and celebrity.

And yet on Earth, we spend a trillion dollars on war without blinking an eye. With each passing year, the chance of a global catastrophe mounts—the climate, an epidemic, a financial crash, or a war that shrouds Earth in space debris and prevents us from reaching space. Possibly ever again. Humanity’s future depends on going—now, not later.

If we want to have any future as a species, then we must learn how to build our biome—the one for which we evolved—out in the harsh vacuum of space. By learning how to create our ideal environment with our own hands and our own minds, we can even begin to understand how Earth’s ecosystem functions—and in doing so we will not only secure humanity’s future but we may learn how to fix Earth’s climate as well.

Banks lend only the principal. However, loans must be repaid plus interest—and with long-term loans like mortgages, the total interest payments far exceed the principal itself. Unless the overall money supply keeps growing, there will never be enough money to pay back all the loans plus interest.

Because in the modern world money does not represent value, Mr. Tighe—money represents debt. And the more debt that is created in the world, the more money there is.

No, it’s better than alchemy—it’s science.

There comes a time, J.T., when you realize you’re the oldest one at the party.

We have sequenced each of your genomes from the blood samples you provided and have determined that—as expected—a disproportionate number of you share what’s known as the ‘wanderlust gene,’ DRD4-7R. This gene is highly correlated with a desire for novel experiences. Many of the world’s greatest explorers, adventurers, and entrepreneurs have this gene. Its