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What would the vastness of outer space feel like?

Anonymous Fri 04 Sep 16:29:57 2020 No.12084687 View Reply Original Report

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Would it be too overwhelming for some people, frightening even ?

This enters my mind when people bring up space tourism in the far hypothetical future. I feel like the average person would just be too terrified of how hollow and eerie space truly is, the scope of it all.

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Anonymous Fri 04 Sep 2020 16:48:28 No.12084746 Report

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People adapt. Some may overthink things and go all nihilist "I don't matter", but that's a spook. I am, and always will be, my Self.

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Anonymous Fri 04 Sep 2020 21:47:19 No.12085514 Report

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space is super big like mega big and its also super poisonous
being lost in space is like being fucked for eternity

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Anonymous Sat 05 Sep 2020 00:25:18 No.12085999 Report

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>what is 'agoraphobia'?
I've gone skydiving before. You might think that's scary as shit, jumping out into nothingness, the ground 5000 feet below you.
But it's not, really, because the ground is too far away for stereo vision, out of range for depth perception; it's just this flat image below you, no sense of how close or far away.
Then you reach terminal velocity and float on a cushion of air.
Being in space, no gravity, nothing around you for at least millions of miles in any direction?
The disorientation, there being no 'down' or 'up' would probably bother you more than anything else.
If you're agoraphobic, you might freak out.
If you're claustrophobic and in a vac suit, you might have a *serious* problem.
But otherwise? Nothing is threatening you? You're in a ship, or a vac suit, you're not in any *imminent* danger? Probably adapt to it quickly.

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Anonymous Sat 05 Sep 2020 00:26:02 No.12086002 Report

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I think it would feel like a really loose vagina.

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Anonymous Sat 05 Sep 2020 03:18:38 No.12086459 Report

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>>12084687
My guess is an overwhelming feeling of the sublime, perhaps something similar to the Overview effect, a transcendental experience for everyone no doubt

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01340/full

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Anonymous Sat 05 Sep 2020 03:23:09 No.12086466 Report

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>However, although awe can be seen as having an overall positive valence, it has a negative flavor (Chirico et al., 2016, 2017). Awe seems to be a complex emotion or emotional construct characterized by a mix of positive (contentment, happiness), and negative affective components (fear and a sense of being smaller, humbler or insignificant). It is interesting to notice that beyond English “awe” is often captured by a combination of positive and negative terms meaning something like “fear mixed with admiration”

>Huge and steep mountains, starry night skies, waterfalls, grand canyons, deserts, thunderstorms are all examples of grand stimuli triggering experiences of the sublime. This type of experience arises when we are confronted with an overwhelming vastness or power and nature offers paradigmatic examples of such a grandeur.

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Anonymous Sat 05 Sep 2020 03:28:06 No.12086472 Report

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Also I'm reminded of what Gene Cernan said and how it impacted him-

>When Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan spoke those words on 13th December 1972, boots deep in lunar dust, the magnitude of the occasion was not lost on him. “Imagine sitting on a soft swing on God’s front porch,” he describes of his travels 250,000 miles from our planet. “Looking back at the Earth and its beauty – the blues of the oceans, the whites of the snow and clouds, surrounded by the blackest black you can conceive in your mind with thousands and thousands of stars – it was just absolutely incredible.”

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Anonymous Sat 05 Sep 2020 03:29:16 No.12086475 Report

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probably the same feeling as being in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight

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Anonymous Sat 05 Sep 2020 03:32:01 No.12086479 Report

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also see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424873/

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Anonymous Sat 05 Sep 2020 08:02:09 No.12087039 Report

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Imagine being in intergalactic space. So dark you can’t see your hand if it’s in front of your face. No visible light except for the occasional faint smudge of a distant galaxy. A true void.

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Anonymous Sat 05 Sep 2020 20:56:11 No.12089112 Report

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nice

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