the.com/outer space
the ultimate empty apartment, technically infinite, rent is zero but the commute kills you.
means everything beyond earth's atmosphere, where there's no air, no sound, and no line at customs.
from the phrase separates our thin blanket of breathable sky from the vast nothing past it; humans started using outer space seriously once rockets in the 1950s made the boundary a place you could actually cross, not just stargaze at.
no hard edgethe karman line, 100km up, is a convention, not a wall
it's loud silentsound needs air, so explosions there are mute
mostly emptyone hydrogen atom per cubic meter on average
getting crowdedover 30,000 tracked objects now orbit earth
for instance
international space station — 400km up, orbits earth every 90 minutes since 1998
voyager 1 — launched 1977, now over 24 billion km from earth
karman line — 100km altitude, the informal border of space
apollo 11 — 1969, first humans to leave earth orbit and land elsewhere