Wonder of ScienceNov 22, 2022

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
#earth #space #saturn #planets #nasa

Show threadYoav Zack

@wonderofscience
This one just... It got me.

Maybe it's the complete silence that my headphones are producing, here in the middle of the night.
Maybe it's being closed in my small room, with two bright monitors near me.
Maybe it's just a combination of everything else, my thoughts and my body intertwined as a messy braid.

But this picture made me feel alone. Stranded in space, thousands and millions of kilometers from everything I have ever known.

Utterly alone, but in peace.

Dec 22, 2022 at 11:32pmWeb
Show threadYoav ZackDec 22, 2022
@wonderofscience
I wish that I had my copy of "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" to guide me here. This is a feeling that needs a word. And I'm sure there is one, but I'm not good enough with them to find it out myself.