We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ~ Carl Sagan

Three Questions, February 6, 2025

You can find the background to The Three Questions in my recent post about it. I’ll be answering the questions each day for the next year and putting this experience into a book. Here we go!

What was the most beautiful thing I encountered today?

It was my parking spot, empty when I returned home from work late. I’ve been in a battle over the spot, a neighbor has insisted in parking there and I thought for sure I’d be walking in the rain tonight, that empty spot was a beautiful sight.

What did I learn today?

The spy satellite Corona in 1960 shot 3000 feet of film of the Soviet Union, in order to get the film back to the US government, it tossed the film canister from space in a capsule. The capsule had a heat shield, a chute popped out and then a plane caught it with a fork on the front of the plane. Pretty amazing.

What made me happy today?

Today I finished three probationary employee reviews and happily all of them are doing great and are now permanent employees.