26 nov 2025, 9:44am
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i watched a live rocket launch on the news yesterday. i love watching them, especially with multistage rockets where the engines are detached from the main rocket. it's also so fascinating to see the ground expand and disappear into the earth's horizon. i've always thought the blue glow on the boundaries of where space meets the earth was stunning.
i watched lots of space movies like the martian and armageddon as a kid, and my parents often got me books on space. i remember this one atlas of space that was so heavy it was tough to carry. it might still be somewhere in the house, and i'll definitely have to have a look at it again one day.
the sheer size of the universe has always amazed me. i recently discovered this site (scaleoftheuniverse.com) where you drag a scrollbar and see objects' sizes relative to each other, and it's just so fascinating to me. i was going back and forth for at least 10minutes lol
it reminded me of those videos id come across a few times many years ago. like the website, they often showed celestial bodies next to each other, and each new one that came into view in the screen was so large in comparison that all the previous planets and suns shrank to less than pixels. it's just so captivating.
i will never intend to become an astronaut, but the thought of floating in space is such a wonderful thing. i just recently watched a video by steve mould where he got a nasa astronaut to test his chain theory (the mould effect) in space, and the way the physics works in space is so counterintuitive, it's like magic. in a vacuum, in zero gravity, everything just works so weirdly and differently it's like another dimension, and i can never get over it.