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Note: The following post is not financial advice. It is for informational purposes based on independent research. Money is easy to spend and difficult to acquire. After learning more about personal finances though, I found it easier to get ahead of money problems, and start planning instead of reacting. And I mean that in an empowering way: that anyone can pursue financial freedom. Here’s a overview of a few basic concepts and some specific investment options related to personal finances. I’ll try to cite another source for some of the topics, in case you want to look more into it. But if you only look into one other source, here’s my personal favorite book on personal finance and a quote from it: ...

I was watching the 2018 adaptation of Aniara the other day, and it got me thinking about how close we are to space travel between other exoplanets. In the movie a ship accidentally gets blown off course on the way to Mars, and plunges into deep space. Spoiler alert, the ship doesn’t encounter another solar system for 6 million years. We don’t know exactly where the Aniara ended up, since the movie only reveals that it’s in the constellation Lyra, which contains stars of varying distances from earth. This stack overflow post explains the math to find Aniara’s speed and distance given the time it took to get there (at least, it seems correct from my minimal astronomy knowledge…). Apparently, the ship would have been going between 1 and 31 km/s (traveling between 25 and 620 light years away). ...