Brown Motion

The library again yielded some worthwhile content to read.  I did.  The entire weekend was spent lazily soaking in history and state of the planet we occupy. First title was Rocket Billionaires  - Musk, Bezos et al.. This narrative is the historic perspective on how the privatization of the space we call 'outer space' came to be.  A series of lucky coincidences, entrepreneurial hubris and flawed government oversight in the form of NASA and bloated bureaucracies largely paved the way for commoners to dream of cracking the Karman line (named for a Hungarian physicist), which is an imaginary plane at 100 km altitude above earth. While full commercial flight into outer space is not a reality there are significant strides to solve for a flight of fancy.  Why someone would want to take a joy ride for hundreds of thousands of dollars to be in the rarefied atmosphere and gaze down is akin to a solution waiting for a question. Yet there is an aspiration to reac...