According to Matt Walker (the sleep expert), if you hold your thumb out at arm’s length then your thumb nail is roughly the size of what your eyes actually see and your peripheral vision is just your mind filling in what it believes to be there. Also you look at an average of 4 different spots per second even if you don’t feel your eyes moving.

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when u really meditate and think about it, its totally mind blowing, that there never was a beginning.

I think Conformal Cyclic Cosmology is a fun idea.

or how about the idea of infinity. No end or no beginning to anything. Universe born, universes die, and it just goes on forever, and yet it never even began in the first place, it just always was.

I have to do something similar with the Pleiades. Looking directly at it I see one dim star, but when I look off to the side and move my eye back and forth, I see a weird tiny cluster of dots.

Still am unable to see it well enough to count. Probably needs to be viewed form somewhere even further away from the cities.

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For real space is crazy.

You are stardust. The stuff your body is made from was forged in the hearts of stars and in cataclysmic collisions and explosions that rang the very fabric of spacetime billions of years ago.

And somehow, you, this aggregation of star dust, looks out at the very cosmos we were born from and asks "why?".

The two stars in Andromeda constellation that point to it are about as far apart as the distance onward to the galaxy *------*-----0

My brain hurts from reading this

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No bone to pick with most of what you wrote... but

> around the rocket

1.5 kilometers from the rocket.

IMMEDIATELY around the rocket (which is what I'd mean if I said simply "around the rocket") would be a different story. Obvs.

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Give it a couple billion years, if there's still life in the milky way, for the you that exists then, that forgot the you that is now ever existed, it'll be a lot easier to see then... just give it some time.

I wish I was on shrooms for this.

I remember following his training as much as I could when I was a kid. Instead of JT I was obsessed with Lance and, as a massive Sailor Moon fan, was obsessed with space too. The type of access to training he had, as a civilian, was essentially impossible in the US after the Challenger disaster. IIRC he did an accelerated training program in a matter of months that would’ve normally been like 2 years long.

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Well firstly you need to be in the northern hemisphere.

Here down under we get the large and small Magellanic clouds and they're impressive in their own right, but not quite on the same scale as Andromeda.

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WTF did I just read, is this a new language?

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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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