A few weeks ago I was giving a presentation on the future of US space flight. It was a pretty good presentation, if I do say so myself, and I had lots of fun making it and presenting it. It was a small crowd of about 30 – 40 folks, which is strange for a clear night at Kopernik Observatory, and somewhere during the presentation, one of those rare moments of inspiration arose, and I just had to share it here on the blog.
At the very end of the presentation, I presented a slide covering various technology and efforts which I hadn’t gone over in the presentation. I was only summarizing and providing a list of things to research for those interested. After all, we have to keep the presentations down to 45 minutes to allow folks to observe the heavens. However, I hit a moment where it was really just myself in the room despite all the others, and was able to block everyone else out. I absolutely long for moments like that, when everything became clarity, and time seemed to stop outside that moment. For a brief time, I had found a Zen like state to exist in, and it couldn’t have been interrupted by a better question…