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Shatner: My Trip to Space Filled Me With ‘Overwhelming Sadness’ - Boldly Go book

posted 2 years ago by Satan2016 (23248)
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It's like not seeing the stars from the moon because they only go during day time.

https://www.amazon.com/Boldly-Go-Reflections-Life-Wonder-ebook/dp/B09RX45KT5/ 4.5*
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/william-shatner-space-boldly-go-excerpt-1235395113/

In this exclusive excerpt from William Shatner’s new book, “Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder,” the “Star Trek” actor reflects on his voyage into space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space shuttle on Oct. 13, 2021. Then 90 years old, Shatner became the oldest living person to travel into space, but as the actor and author details below, he was surprised by his own reaction to the experience.

I continued my self-guided tour and turned my head to face the other direction, to stare into space. I love the mystery of the universe. I love all the questions that have come to us over thousands of years of exploration and hypotheses. Stars exploding years ago, their light traveling to us years later; black holes absorbing energy; satellites showing us entire galaxies in areas thought to be devoid of matter entirely… all of that has thrilled me for years… but when I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death.

I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing. I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her.

Everything I had thought was wrong. Everything I had expected to see was wrong.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Set phasers to ‘depress’ 😒

[–] Satan2016 (23248) a year ago

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[–] bozo_500 (12149) a year ago

Sounds like Bill had a close encounter with 'the undiscovered country' and did not like it one bit!

[–] maximmm (3032) a year ago

Space exploration has largely been romanticized.
Indeed.... space is cold, lonely, dangerous and despite the danger, not particularly exciting.
It does get more exciting if you can get from planet a to planet b in minutes - or from one galaxy to another in hours. With our current technology though.....

[–] [deleted] a year ago

To the contrary, ...'space' is actually a very busy place.

'Outer Space' - is the second Heaven of three, and is teeming with life, ...angelic life, both benevolent and malevolent.

These beings vibrate at very high and low frequencies, and are 'inter-dimensional' in nature. Much like the electromagnetic spectrum, of which we can see less than 1%, these beings are invisible to the human eye, but exist they do.

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