Feeling unreasonably cheerful because I’ve made a tiny start towards starting a personal space program 
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Which is why brain surgery replaced rocketry as the paradigmatic “smart” field sometime in the 80s. It’s even more unintuitive. Even though we ARE brains, nothing in our direct experience works like a brain. Except maybe global population. 7.5b people/planet vs. 86b neurons/brain
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lol remember when i deduced that if earth was much bigger the propellant mass fraction of the best chemical rocket would be way too high to be useful and so any potential civilization growing up on a big planet would have to go around chemical rockets if they wanted to go up
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