The Universe Is Probably Littered With One-planet

Our Brains Have Just One Scale, And We Resize Our Experiences To Fit.

The Explosion Would Be Just The Right Size To Maximize The Amount Of Paperwork Your Lab Would Face. If The Explosion Were Smaller, You Could Potentially Cover It Up. If It Were Larger, There Would Be No One Left In The City To Submit Paperwork To.

But I’ve Never Seen The Icarus Story As A Lesson About The Limitations Of Humans. I See It As A Lesson About The Limitations Of Wax As An Adhesive.

The Thing About The Internet Is That You Can Write Something... For A Very Narrow Audience And Make A Living At It.

It's Tempting To Just Write A Comic Called 'everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - Maybe It Would Work, And I Could Just Close Down The 'xkcd' Store And Sit On A Beach And Draw Pictures And Make Snarky Reddit Posts For The Rest Of My Life.