Occam - 23 June 2010 04:00 PM

Damn, I never thought of myself as being similar to Spock, but as I learned all of those things as a kid, I just thought, “fascinating”.  Never had the ‘terrifying’ experience. 

Occam

Right on!  I remember reading about stars going nova in some sci-fi book and thought “WOW!!!”

psik

“Famous blue dot” picture which carl sagan made popular made me think about universe. I used to think that there was nothing outside our solar system, then vastness of universe was enough for me.

That pale blue dot photo was great!  So amazing, grand and minuscule, colorful and dark, humbling and awe inspiring, fascinating and beautiful, frighteningly lonely and unifying, all at the same time.

In that famous Cassinni photo of the dark side of Saturn, this NASA article tries to express the same idea.  The High resolution JPEG looks best.