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Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. —Niels Bohr
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. —Erwin Schrödinger
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. —Rumi
“. . . And then in 1975, the US government decided to use fiber-optic cables to link computers into a network for the first time,” my narration is going strong as I make my way down another stairwell. “This happened to be at the air force’s classified facility in Colorado Springs. Cheyenne Mountain,
As Carme and I like to say, the more links in a chain, the higher the probability that the chain will be compromised or broken. The more doors to your house, the more likely the wrong person will enter.
Your average person never thinks about what might happen if and when Russia or China or both decide to take out our satellites, our space stations and telescopes, our rovers and rockets.” “Or worse, take them over to turn on us,”
the page half-filled with her handwriting, tiny and flattened as if the words are too shy to raise their hands in class.
One of the great ironies is our defenses are knocked out most efficiently by our own personal beliefs and learning, by our own programming and wiring.
Bringing to mind bent-pipe telemetry, where a signal sent from the ground and up to a satellite is then bounced back down to another location somewhere on the planet. Similar to what we’ll do here at Langley when we link to Ames before a bad storm hits.
Just because it’s not right in front of you doesn’t mean it isn’t. Just because it isn’t there doesn’t mean it’s not.
Because information is dangerous when it’s untruthful, whether we’re talking about an airlock in a tunnel or the steel-ribbed chest cavity of a NASA anthropomorphic test device. Accurate answers to life-and-death questions are the only way we’re going to know whether an environment is safe to work in.
I’m the Maytag Man no one respects.
“Then you believe it’s all connected. All from the same source of ugly.” “You know what I say about coincidences.” “You’re not getting an argument from me,” he agrees.
