Perseverance
March 21st 2021 Today I got randomly emotional at hearing an innocuous bit of information. I’m not entirely sure how, but I ended up watching a YouTube video about the landing of Perseverance — the latest rover to have been landed on Mars. Even my phrasing there “the latest rover” is a bit mental, and that goes some way to describing what choked me up a bit. Specifically though, it was this line from the video: “The first person to walk on Mars is alive on earth right now” That is to say, that within this lifetime, maybe even within … Continue reading Perseverance