Monitoring signals from New Horizons was my eye-opener.

Early mornings or never.

The 76 daily system checks in 'The Martian' novel had more screen time in my imagination than entire seasons of 'Star Wars'. It's like TV writers think we'd tune out if characters actually had to fix a faulty oxygen scrubber for three episodes straight. Sure, compressing time keeps plots moving, but at this point, the USS Enterprise feels more like a teleportation device than a starship. Maybe we need a show that's just a live feed of a generation ship's maintenance logs, narrated by someone slowly losing their mind from space boredom.

Remember trying to build my first PC and spreading thermal paste like it was butter on toast, lmao. My cable management looked like a bird's nest and I stripped a screw so bad it's still in the case. Definitely learned the hard way that tech isn't magic, it's just fragile and hates me.

Maybe your cat just needed more consistent conditioning to the moving vehicle environment. Proper desensitization training over weeks can make car travel tolerable for most felines. Blaming the cat's nature ignores the owner's role in inadequate preparation.