Limitations of Humanity

Kurzgesagt outlines how far humanity will ever go in the universe. Ever.

Yep. Even with science fiction technology, humans – even the robots or species that will ever come after us – will never travel any further than the Local Group.

And yet the possibility of getting off of this planet and becoming a space-faring species seems almost an impossibility. Not because of the technical challenges – but the political ones.

*SMH*

If you’ve known for the past twelve months that you were going to be out of your home this Friday, Wednesday is a poor time begin your search for a new home.

Here’s some helpful advice: embrace the concept of being homeless if you’re unable to plan some simple things.

Rhymes

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My mind has been blown: cats only have 7 lives in German! (They have 9 in English!!)

…because German is just that much harder to learn.

I suspect that a contributing factor is that because in German, the word for “lives” is “Leben”, and the German number that most closely forms at least an imperfect rhyme with Leben is sieben (seven).

Katzen haben sieben Leben.