100 Days of Wonder-#7

It may not be immediately obvious what you are looking at here but it is literally rocket science. In January 2023 we did a day trip to the Kennedy Space Centre to break up the Disney Magic with some space exploration wonder. I don’t know how I feel about space exploration. We’ve done quite enough damage here and if only the money going up in flames in this picture had been put to solving the world’s problems… We saw this particular rocket on the Space X launch pad. It was actually meant to launch the day before it did and we had forgotten about it and then happened to see it from out hotel room and it took a minute to realise what it was. It was sort of fun to have seen the rocket on the launch pad and then see this and I got lost in the wonder and the big what-ifs and wow space… and then it wore off. Somehow space has never really held my attention. Astronaut was probably one of the few things I didn’t want to be as a kid. The questions as to whether we are alone or whether there are aliens seemed irrelevant when as a kid I could just go to Narnia through a wardrobe…spaceships and rockets seemed excessive. Now the science got more interesting as i got older and then less interesting as I got even older (because I no longer understood it). So, because I really want to be a science nerd (but don’t understand…) I admire the science and the engineering and all of that. I love understanding fully how something works but I rarely do and I just think we should be doing something other than launching more junk into space with that knowledge. So for this post I marvel, in a very unjoyous way at the stupidity of us humans. I am sure I just don’t really get it but I think all that ingenuity, resilience, problem solving, time and money that has gone into, literal space, should perhaps have been put to better use. Back to the Happiest Place on Earth tomorrow, promise.