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10 things I learned from Explore/Create: My Life in Pursuit of New Frontiers, Hidden Worlds, and the Creative Spark by Richard Garriott

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    1. Richard Garriott wrote Ultima (video game) and has lived on the space station: a polymath.

    2. Dungeons and dragons is a negotiated narrative. It is game that is played without rules.

    3. He is a “serial enthusiast“

    4. He made haunted houses as a child for every holiday, including Fourth of July

    He eventually made world famous haunted houses in Austin Texas and spent $100,000 or more on each one.

    5. He was an early investor in space travel in the 1980s as a 23-year-old. Buzz Aldrin asked him to invest.

    6. The international space station is composed of more than 20 compartments that are shipped up there individually. Each nation provides a module as required, and the only requirement is that they have the same size docking section.

    When you travel inside the space station from one to another, notice the differences.

    7. Using the space toilet on the ISS is one of the more dangerous things you can do on the space station.

    8. An astronaut on a spacewalk could potentially be killed by a piece of space debris about the size of a pencil eraser because everything is traveling at about 17,000 miles an hour

    9. He is friends with Peter Diamandis and Elon Musk. There is a very tiny cabal of people that has really shaped the direction of the planet in the last 25 years.

    10. The Ultima online game ultimately became a place where you could earn real money and do other transactions. They did not anticipate this at all when they were building a game.

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