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Except for the unicorn, your last paragraph is my reality. Oh and it’s five weeks vacation, actually. My wife even has six. Sick days not included. Those are all part of the universal health care we have.
38h work week btw. Rarely overtime.
I create space related content on YouTube, mostly using Kerbal Space Program to demonstrate concepts: https://youtube.com/ShadowZone
Except for the unicorn, your last paragraph is my reality. Oh and it’s five weeks vacation, actually. My wife even has six. Sick days not included. Those are all part of the universal health care we have.
38h work week btw. Rarely overtime.
If you like grounded sci-fi that elicits a “it could happen in a few years” vibe firmly rooted on Earth, check out William Gibson. Most of his stuff is excellent, but “The Peripheral” and its followup “Agency” are recent highlights. From his older stuff I very much enjoyed “Virtual Light” the most. More than his acclaimed “Neuromancer” (he invented the word cyberspace in 1982 and popularized it in this 1984 novel) even.
Neal Stephenson - “Seveneves” One of my all time favorite sci-fi books. It is set mostly in space, but very realistic and never leaves the Earth’s influence. Time setting is basically now or a few years from now.
Also by Stevenson: “Anathem” Marvellous alternate universe story with a few twists. It’s on Earth, just … different.
If you wanna go for the classics (1960 roughly), look into Stanislaw Lem. “Solaris”, “Eden” and “Transfer” all left a lasting impression on me.
Andy Weir’s second best book after “The Martian” in my opinion. But not by far, it was a great read and I enjoyed every page of it. Rocky for intergalactic president!
Sure, here you go: https://youtu.be/2pgnU8UKk1I
I used my Pixel 5 as a mobile recording rig. Plugged in my audio interface via USB-C (which powered it as well), two wireless XLR receivers and used the app n-track to record an interview with an astronaut at an ESA event (lav mic on myself and the astronaut).
In that moment, I felt like a pro.
Unfortunately, the interview didn’t get a lot of views on my YouTube channel haha
This is a W. It started with different registers here in Austria as well (“registered partnership” vs “marriage”) until our supreme court ordered it was unconstitutional to make that distinction.
Now all marriages are equal before the law. As they should be.
This was the solution that worked for me as well. Thanks!
Thanks for adding more context to this!
Yep, gut-liver-brain axis is a thing and people definitely don’t know enough about it. Including myself.
I admit it: I’m a lurker 99% of the time. I do partake in the up- and downvoting though.
This. When I got my CPR training, the consensus was: if you hear or feal something crack, don’t stop. Messing up is better than doing nothing.