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[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I find the Universe to be horrifying rather than beautiful or wonderful.

Seeing the Earth spinning through the vast blackness of space fills me with dread.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

But it's more than just "blackness". In fact, there are other planets that are right next to Earth! And we've sent robots to bring us back color photos of their surface.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNx9hcrUpww

If Hitler had won WW2, the Germans would have made colonizing Space a priority. They were already the 1st country to launch a rocket into Space, and all the best scientists that helped land the first Man on the Moon were of German origin.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

By volume the vast majority of the known universe is empty vacuum. People truly underestimate the logistics of space and its colonization.

[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You don't seem to be aware of the vast distances involved here. Even the moon is 400,000 km away, from which distance the Earth looks like this. Mars and Venus are vastly further distances away. And the solar system itself is insanely far away from other solar systems.