From the Land of Greece to the Lands of Titan

摘要

I come from a country where people look up at the sky quite often, especially at nighttime. And from ages lost in time, they usually try to make sense of what they see. How Aris-tarchos invented the heliocentric solar system, how Eri-tosthenes proved the Earth was round and discovered the distance to the Moon, and how Anaximander had the Universe all structured out were my bedtime stories. And of course, I was very close to the sky myself. Not only because my name gave me rights to an Olympian abode but also because in my family, except for my mother, we were all a little nuts about the sky: my father and brother were both in the Greek Air Force.