I enjoy power tools.
Today we began construction of a plywood skirt for the hab. The hab sits on legs, a few feet off the ground, leaving many of the pipes exposed to very cold winds (one cause of our broken toilet, and also several other problems around the hab).
I also enjoy shoveling. Thankfully, I will get to do a lot of this in the next couple days. Each of the boards must sit in a ditch, several inches deep.
I am becoming spoiled by the sky here. Moonrise isn’t until well past 11pm these days, so we enjoy several hours of jaw-dropping stars after the sun sets. I can tell I’ve been hanging out around an astronomer … eight light years is starting to sound like not all that far away.
Interesting space factoid: when galaxies collide, most of the stars don’t even come into contact with each other, because there is so dang much space between them. Our galaxy is scheduled to collide with another galaxy in a couple megayears.
Another interesting space factoid: the International Space Station is orbiting Earth so quickly that you get a sunrise and sunset every 45 minutes or so. It’s just like The Little Prince.
Looks like it was supposed to be 3 gigayears, not 3 megayears. Oops. I’d think if it was 3 megayears it’d be getting pretty big in the sky by now…
Oh …
… and I guess we can’t even use the “orders of magnitude” argument for this one …
Happy New Year! Thinking of you down here on Earth. Your nephew was the hit of the dance floor at the party we went to. He did the electric slide. Two years old and he’s already a better dancer than me.
New Year’s.
Here’s wishing you a stellar