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thenewgreen  ·  4536 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Space exploration is about us.
This is wonderful mk. It is far too easy to think of space as science fiction, something that you can see portrayed on a screen but could never actually experience. I enjoyed envisioning the winds of Mars and the the lightening of Venus. We have a hard time conjuring empathy for that which we've never experienced. If a tree falls on Mars and nobody is there to witness it, does it make a sound? (please ignore the obvious inaccuracies in the previous thought experiment)