What Project Hail Mary Can Teach IT Professionals (Part 2)
Inner Planets
Mid-Flight Checklist
What follows is a continuation of my observations and ideas inspired by “Project Hail Mary”, which I began back in part 1 of the series. Once again, I will warn readers that if you haven’t read the book and/or watched the movie (and I highly recommend you do!) and you don’t want it spoiled, you should probably stop reading, bookmark this page, and come back later.
Science (and tech) happens in steps, not leaps
There’s a wonderful 2-part series on YouTube where Mathematician Terence Tao discusses how each discovery about the space around our planet gave us the tools to discover the next step – something he calls the “cosmic distance ladder”. (You can watch that video here). As wonderful as it is to hear this history, we need to keep in mind that this is often the way all science happens. Not by a...
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