I have not been to space, but imagining the blank, clean matter-of-factness of it, the sterility of it, the emptiness of it, and understanding that is what the

I have not been to space, but imagining the blank, clean matter-of-factness of it, the sterility of it, the emptiness of it, and understanding that is what the incomprehensible vastness of the universe "is" except for the rounding error of matter, is a strange and scary thought. I have talked to someone who has travelled to the ISS before and they mentioned the most strange part of it was seeing the ISS in pure sunlight, as if it were just an object sitting under stage lighting in complete, context-less darkness. I'd imagine it's surreal to be present in the visual and auditory silence of space, knowing the dead nothingness hides the extreme danger of what would come if one were simply put into it.