If you’re paralyzed with existential dread in these early days of 2020 already, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has provided an incredibly soothing video that might change your outlook. “An Astronaut’s Guide To Optimism In 2020,” released this week, has Hadfield talking about all the good things that happened in 2019, plus the past decade. “[She] controls her ‘siwwy gwanpa’ just by moving her eyebrows,” Hadfield says with a laugh. Smallpox killed 500 million people in its last 100 years in existence but we beat it.”Ian Tuttle via Getty Images Chris Hadfield attends the 2020 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet at NASA Ames Research Center on Nov. 3, 2019. “That sense of wonder and privilege and clarity of the world slowly shifts your view, of course.

Source: Huffington Post January 04, 2020 17:03 UTC