Welp. This is my final article for SYFY Wire. My first article was published on February 1, 2017 . I had been writing at Slate, and after that ended in late 2016 I was fishing around for someplace new to write. My friend Katherine Nelson came to my rescue. I met her when I was asked to moderate a MythBusters panel at San Diego Comic-Con ; she was a VP at Discovery Networks at the time. We became friends pretty much from the start ; from there she went on to be a VP at SpaceX and then NBC, which owns the SYFY Channel. When she heard I needed a new venue, she immediately invited me to write for SYFY Wire, because she is made of awesome. It’s been a good run. I’m not sure exactly how many articles I’ve written here, but it’s around 1,500. At a thousand words a pop, on average, you can do that math. It’s been a lot of words. I think — I hope — they’ve been good words. Writing about astronomy and space is deeply personal to me.…