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Lost in Space

Having received ugly looks from my housemates for using the TV to watch either the NBA playoffs or play the office or family guy reruns, I knew it was time to switch channels. Having fallen out of love with JackTV because they show too much wrestling (which I also fell out of love with when I reached 30), I was free to engage in the universal pastime of channel surfing which almost always boils down to discovery channel, national geographic, HBO, and baby tv, I caught Cars on Disney channel but only managed to watch the last few minutes where Lightning McQueen left radiator springs to participate in the climactic race. Was able to watch the end credits in full though. This shows how bored I was. Flipping the remote, I came across Nat Geo's Known Universe: The Fastest. The episode talked about the theory of relativity and it caught my attention - despite the fact that I couldn't understand the explanations for the various concepts being floated around. I did manage to pick up so