How would seeing Earth from space impact you?

One of the things at the very top of my bucket list for life is to go into space. I sincerely hope that in my lifetime that technology will be developed more and space travel for civilians will become a viable option.

Looking back upon yourself. That is the lesson I take from the video. Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

I have no desire to travel in space. Just the thought terrifies me. I’m too claustrophobic I suppose. I appreciate the beauty and images others have provided and I supported the old NASA. I love watching the heavens through a telescope and studying astronomy. The thought of strapping myself into a rocket and shooting into space has no appeal to me though.

I have read that astronauts experience when they first see earth from orbit as a deeply moving spiritual experience. Particularly when they are doing stuff outside the spacecraft. I would really like to experience that feeling, and to see the whole of the earth from outside the earth.

I watched that video a couple months ago and it explains my view of earth, and why I can’t comprehend the animosity earthlings have against other earthlings because they look differently or have different lifestyles. I was born the year that Star Trek first aired on television, and so the concept of our sameness has always been a part of me. I woul love to go into space, but I would need to work hard to get into physical shape and win the lottery for that opportunity to occur in this lifetime.

http://zenpencils.com/comic/106-chris-hadfield-an-astronauts-advice/ – @uberbatman

No impact at all unless gravity takes me. Lol. Seriously, I’ve imagined this scenario many times. I would be tongue tied, teary-eyed and reinforce my feelings of how little we know of anything that’s why we create an imaginary God ourselves.

Awed (in the true sense of that word) is what I would be. And I think I would be overwhelmed by both its beauty and my loneliness.

There are a billion billion more interesting and beautiful things here on Earth than in all the rest of the Universe put together.

Awe, shock, and amazement like none other I’ll know in my lifetime, probably. I don’t think I’ll ever get to experience this but I do so badly want to.

@uberbatman Best of success at checking off all the things on that bucket list before you check out.

@bkcunningham Thanks for an honest answer. After watching one shuttle disintegrate on reentry and another blow to smithereens during launch, I can definitely appreciate that caution. But personally, now pushing 70, I ain’t got that many years left to hang around and I would go in a heartbeat if they wanted me.

@majorrich Just watching the video they put together was a deeply moving spiritual experience for me. At my age, if NASA needs a reasonably physically fit candidate who is expendable because he won’t last forever anyway, here I am.

@hearkat Hear, Hear!

And thanks for the great link.

@mazingerz88 Same here, but I’d sure love to go through it.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room My sentiments exactly.

@flutherother Not really. Even the little we now know about the rest of the Universe says just the opposite. And there are more planets out there than there are grains of sand in all the Earth’s beaches, seas and deserts. Who can even guess what beauty lies out there to be seen by human eyes? That’s what draws us. Why else would we spend billions of dollars getting off of planet Earth?

@deni Me to, my friend. I understand completely.

I would be breathless.

I am not going any place that I have to carry air in bottles.