Everything You Know About Space is Wrong

It is our sense of curiosity that led us to harness powers beyond our own muscles: first firewood and yoked animals; later the sunlight and the energy locked up in the atom. Now we create and explore computer-generated worlds to satisfy that itch. Pushing out into space is not a ‘nice to have’ or an ‘optional extra’. It is an adventure that will forever call

If the entire observable universe were shrunk down to the size of the Earth, then Captains Kirk and Picard are, generously speaking, playing about in a region the size of your left nostril.