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Originally Posted by Blue Mythril You know what? For some reason I don't think I view "out there" as being real as such...
I dunno, it's like it's not truly reality like Earth etc. Hmm, having trouble explaining here. But when I read articles or see pictures from Hubble I just seemto think of it more in terms of "beyond" or, for lack of a better word, spiritual or philosophical terms.
Ok, this is sounding really weird even to me, I think I'll shut up now.
*Makes mental note: avoid stoners from now on.* |
You know when I really, really realized that "out there" is a real place? July, 1969, when the first astronauts set foot on the moon. Their was real dirt, with real folks walking around (despite the yahoos who claim that the landing was a hoax). And then, even more realization in 1976 when I saw the first photos from the first soft landing on Mars (was it the first? or just the first to send back such spectacular photos?). We happened to be in Houston and visiting the space center, and they had an auditorium set up to view the pictures as they came back and were processed. Amazing. A real landscape, with dirt and rocks and sky.
But, heck, even when I was a little kid, I always looked up at night and wondered who was looking back. Probably fallout from having been taken to science fiction movies from the age of about six weeks.
P.S. How's the "avoiding stoners" thing going?
