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
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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.