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I was listening to the Apollo 11 logs sampled in the Austere composition "Principium Somniferum", recorded when the spacecraft departed Earth's gravitational field to be captured by the Moon's.  It's a profound composition inspired by the similarly profound story of men sling-shotting themselves in a bubble of metal away from the protection of Earth's physics toward a desolate chunk of rock based on an extreme faith in their mathematical calculations and belief that they'd packed adequate provisions for the journey.  The transitional moment the Houston engineer spoke of reminded me of a concept my father often pondered and discussed.  Humans, being bipeds who evolved with their brains accustomed to living at walking or running speeds, have to adapt their thinking to the discontinuity of the way we travel today.  Our minds have a timeline of prediction that leads minutes, hours, days ahead of where we are at the present time.  When we make large leaps lik...