Yesterday, the kids and I had gone for a walk, forgetting that I wanted to watch the SpaceX rocket launch that was scheduled for that afternoon. Something reminded me, and so we paused on our walk and watched the rocket launch on my phone.

The rocket launch was impressive, even on my phone's tiny screen, but also impressive was the footage from the ship which was able to transmit pretty good quality footage because it's connected to starlink, I think.

While we may have many frontiers, the one I was thinking about yesterday was the edge of our atmosphere. I have no real desire to go to space or to work on space things, but the launch made me think that we are getting closer to a time when people may see space as a viable personal frontier in the manner of the American West or the Hellenic sea -- or perhaps our children will see this.

For myself, the frontier is, and has always been, the Internet. It remains a lawless place of unconstrained construction -- I think much more so now that a little bit of prompting can often turn any idea into a site.