Tim Chrisman

Humanity In Space Tim Chrisman

Humanity in space. There are few people alive who spent much time without there being humans in space. But we don't know what that means. No one tells their kids...oh well I guess if that doesn't work out you can always be an astronaut. Telling a child about going to space is talked about in the same way being President or a fairy princess. That's because humans in space aren't real...not in our minds. We know what is real because we can touch it, or because we can envision it. Since humans sat around fires telling legends we have brought the untouchable to life through stories. There were no cavemen explaining the math behind throwing a spear, nor were there any ancient Egyptians talking about the mechanics of biology. We brought those concepts to life by telling a story. Stories about people we all knew doing things we all knew about. Stories anchored the abstract into reality. This has been the case forever because math, science, and engineering are scary, complicated or just outside what we know. Space is the perfect storm of scary complicated topics. This book is meant to change that. It isn't a science book, nor is it a work of fiction. It is a space-age cave drawing. There are going to be things that aren't 100% technically accurate in the stories. There are going to be complicated concepts in the explanations of them. But at the end of the day, this book is meant to be a cartoonish rendition of the future. Not cartoonish as in funny, but cartoonish as in an attempt to portray the broad outlines of something without trying to get it perfectly accurate.