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Mars, here we come!

Starship Serial Number 8 High Altitude Flight Test video from SpaceX Youtube Channel.

I was super excited this morning to wake up to the SpaceX SN8 High Altitude Flight Test. That Starship Serial Number 8 exploded upon landing is beside the point. It was a successful ascent, it did its jaw-dropping aerial maneuver which flipped it into position for landing. Yes, it exploded upon impact but it got us so much nearer to Mars in so many ways only a space scientist could enumerate.

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30 seconds naked

I couldn’t think of a better metaphor than the title of the foresight game we developed at the Center for Engaged Foresight to illustrate what happened to me personally tonight.

The night started out fairly innocently. We were excited to play Dreams and Disruptions, a game our team at the Center for Engaged Foresight developed, at the Edinburg Futurists MeetUp. We have been told that there was a good number of sign-ups from several countries spread out across the globe.

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