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What's the point? Astronauts and cosmonauts who have been on the ISS's famous globe window...it's not like they were overwhelmed or collapsed onto the ground c

What's the point? Astronauts and cosmonauts who have been on the ISS's famous globe window...it's not like they were overwhelmed or collapsed onto the ground crying because of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXi9PTh96w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXi9PTh96w What makes our jaw drop is wired into our brain for evolutionary purposes. A wonderful wheat field = means abundant food An amazing lake/river = means abundant drinking water An incredibly attractive woman = means possibility to pass down genes If travelling at 600mph and 40000ft gets old so fast, I think so will the trip at 50 km or 100 or even 200. Bezos and Branson are happy and pumped because they are the people behind the effort and managed to allocate raw materials, human resources, goodwill, money...in a way which made them succeed at something so hard as space travel. But it's not unlike what the CEO of BioNtech and Moderna felt, or even Zuckerberg , Brin or Gates for their endevours.

DerekBickerton 5y ago
> It's not like they were overwhelmed or collapsed onto the ground crying because of it. Being able to see the curvature of the very planet you live on shouldn't have to be a a rare and expensive privilege. After all, you were born on this planet, and it would be nice to see roughly half of it in one glance from space. You don't know what that feels like if you haven't experienced it.
- maverick-iceman 5y ago
  > rare and expensive privilege Rare and expensive privileges give us satisfaction. Besides the things we are wired to like for evolutionary purposes, the more expensive and exclusive a thing is, the more we are satisfied with it. It's not the thing in itself, but the validation we get because it's something done by few. As soon as you step into a commercial plane you look down for like 1 hour and then go straight to the movies. As soon as you get in a private jet it seems amazing for like 5 hours before you realize that you are in an RV which is capable of flying. The half life of non evolutionary driven experiences is very short.

DerekBickerton 5y ago

> It's not like they were overwhelmed or collapsed onto the ground crying because of it. Being able to see the curvature of the very planet you live on shouldn't have to be a a rare and expensive privilege. After all, you were born on this planet, and it would be nice to see roughly half of it in one glance from space. You don't know what that feels like if you haven't experienced it.

maverick-iceman 5y ago
> rare and expensive privilege Rare and expensive privileges give us satisfaction. Besides the things we are wired to like for evolutionary purposes, the more expensive and exclusive a thing is, the more we are satisfied with it. It's not the thing in itself, but the validation we get because it's something done by few. As soon as you step into a commercial plane you look down for like 1 hour and then go straight to the movies. As soon as you get in a private jet it seems amazing for like 5 hours before you realize that you are in an RV which is capable of flying. The half life of non evolutionary driven experiences is very short.