A first post: on the fascination that only space can bring
The feeling of having watched a move that plays out in space, exploring what's beyond the earth, is always a unique one. It puts anything in a different perspective, almost an insane perspective.
11/26/20241 min read
Outer space is mesmerizing in its vastness. There is no feeling like the one you have after watching a space opera, like Interstellar. It reminds you of what could possibly be. Of how grand the world is we live in. Of that even after your life has come to an end, there will still be limitless human activity. People will keep wanting to explore. To make progress on the question whether there is other life out there.
Although movies are not the most accurate or representative, they convey the grandness of space the best by a sublime combination of visuals and audio. But documentaries also do the same, thinking of the Apollo 13 reconstruction. Also even just reading a Wikipedia article on the star system nearest to us, forces us to think outside the Earth. It forces you to imagine what could be there, whether it's the stage for a sci-fi novel or some daydream about future humans exploring it.
Maybe it's because I am educated as a physicist that I'm enthralled by thinking on different scales; imagining zooming in on the quarks inside a nucleus, and seconds later visualizing stellar molecular clouds.