I wish more people, across every input from capital risk to physical testers and users, were willing to take the kind of hardcore technology risks that people were taking from 1940-1969

The amount of insane things done under the fuck it we ball “could work or might kill us all - let’s try it” ethos was very high

It is currently very low which is sad

> Humanity has grown accustomed to always having someone overhead, circling the planet every 90 minutes. When the ISS falls, that presence ends — at least for now.

Kind of wild to think about. It's like losing a moon.