Astrophobia - Why is space so terrifying?

Well bossanovas, this is ground control to Major Bourkey and I've got another banger of a video for ye'. On this week's episode of 'AHHHHHHHH' we look at the topic of Astrophobia - The fear of celestial objects or others surrounding it. I cheated a little by including Spacephobia in this too but last I checked this was my channel so cry about it. This is definitely a bit of a departure from what I usually cover but I do hope you enjoy, and by all means please do let me know if you'd like to see more of this kind of stuff, I might just listen :)

[@kelton1695]

Space is the stupidest thing

[@NoodleFlames]

How is this twelve minute old comment pinned

[@bobjosefuerte7516]

fr

[@bourkey1567]

Cuz this is by far the most complex and well informed take I've read so far, it has so many layers.

[@sol9808]

best take no argue

[@ImNotMister_Mallow]

I've never heard anything so informative, in my life

[@devn_08]

I just find the idea of floating in an endless dark void and looking up at a HUGE sphere just floating there lifeless and still, absolutely terrifying.

[@justinarzola4584]

I dunno I would be pretty chill.

[@PoIarisPrime]

Horrifies me on levels you may never imagine

[@vikinggamer7727]

@@justinarzola4584 ...until you enter that planet.

[@MinecraftWillZoBoB]

I keep dreaming about seeing the earth, in one dream i was in a floating car then i sped up and zoomed past the earth, made me so scared

[@Ghostmanguy]

@@justinarzola4584 yeah until you asphyxiate and freeze to death due to lack of space suit lmao

[@nzinemwe]

My worst fears as a kid was space, not because it’s unknown but because it’s just so empty. I remember playing games like minecraft and subnautica, we all know what happens if you dig beneath the bedrock or Wonder too far of the map in subnautica, it’s an empty void, nothing was more terrifying than that…..

[@BananaNutCream]

I hate that shit in video games - even blue hell

[@smack9518]

It’s just eerily my fear is a combination of the 4 gas giants and some of the dwarf planets I’m not scared of the other ones tho I’m prob scared of the gas giants and some of the dwarfs because there di mysterious and the gas giants are huge but looking at a picture of them with a block void just scares me so much it gives me chills

[@skyral4137]

@@BananaNutCream Blue hell in old open world games oh the nostalgia.

[@paris5831]

It’s not empty it’s just huge

[@bertafjertafisalukta2302]

the void in subnautica is so fucking scary

[@goldaxolotl12]

Does anyone have the fear of space but loves it at the same time? If so you aren't alone

[@Colyde25]

That’s me, I don’t like looking at pictures of Stars or even talking about them. But planets & talking about space in general is cool. I love sci-fi & interstellar space travel.

[@Jaytwisty23]

The beauty and hostility in equal measures fascinates me

[@voidstrider801]

I have equal parts respect, adoration and fear for both space and the ocean. You can enjoy something while still respecting the fact that it is dangerous and absolutely indifferent to your survival.

[@roboterrr]

Absolutely. I love researching about space but looking at images for too long I WILL start to shiver from fear lmao

[@BowelSyndrome]

*You’re never alone in space* 🙃

[@samfarrow348]

Personally, my first reaction when it comes to space is fascination, shock and ultimately....amazement. The reason why some people fear space is because it's unknown to us and something that us humans can't make sense with, as much as we try to.

[@sapiensfromterra5103]

No dude a Black Hole that is bigger in radius than the solar system is frightening because of its colossal size, not because we don't understand it

[@Crow_Rising]

My fear of space is a combination of two things: Megalophobia, and an amplified version of the same fear when a gun is pointed at your head. Pretty much everything in space is capable of killing you in a number of horrendous ways, the majority of which there's little to nothing you could do about if you were unfortunate enough to find yourself in close proximity to them. The safest place in the universe we know about is right here, and even that is something best not taken for granted.

[@xxxl1n9xxxm0zxxxkg-umhio2]

Im the same space is so cool !

[@bluenightfury4365]

Same boat with you, I'm fascinated by space, despite how easily we could die in its environment, I'd rather die exploring our universe than stuck in one place.

[@Yanate1991]

No, its the size of the objects.

[@mixoys]

To me, space is more like an "out of bounds" zone for real life 😭

[@themetalmario77]

The outer planets don't even have their collisions mapped out

[@SoftServeNeo]

@@themetalmario77 cheating mf's

[@skeletonking2501]

Only difference is that we got entire squads dedicated to ruining it and showing us the outer worlds.

[@JJtoob]

The thing is, you and everything you know is in space.

[@UrFriendlyHoax]

@@themetalmario77 Wdym. The outer planets orbit, so how can the collide with others, unless its and asteroid or other small objects

[@MrLeva115]

I’ve never feared space. But I’ve always found it incredibly fascinating

[@UltraViolent21]

Everyone is in space. Having feet on the ground doesn’t mean you aren’t in the 3rd and 4th dimension. Space knows no bounds.

[@backwardjelly2923]

Same

[@TheSpadeStealer_98]

Same.

[@Candywiththeyams]

Same!

[@cocolove9916]

@@UltraViolent21 only when the heat like death happens then its knows some bounds haha

[@reversalmushroom]

The gas giants scare me because I imagine being on them. Looking at an abyss of clouds is terrifying. It's the most extreme version of a fear of heights imaginable. And the same goes for deep water because the clouds eventually compress into a liquid, so the entirety of underneath the clouds is an ocean thousands of miles deep. These planets could literally swallow our planet whole.

[@izanagisburden9465]

This.... man the gas giants scare me... imagine falling through oceans of toxic gasses while the winds there keep you in eternal vertigo

[@IamINERT]

Imagine your in your space suit trapped in a colliding orbit with Jupiter. It grows larger and larger the closer you get as you slowly but surely make your way to the atmosphere

[@DEIFAN]

Imagine seeing them unclose

[@bonkc7313]

Right just imagine falling through the atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn

[@Serovious]

Absolutely terrifying. They have no surface so you just get pulled to the core of the planet.

[@koldboy4659]

this fear extremely amplified my megalophobia, i was always eerily fascinated by space and its colossal celestial bodies and this video gave me such existential chills, thank you

[@chieludz]

shivers myan

[@crassirus]

The two flavors of phobia: 1) Even being reminded it exists fills me with existential dread. 2) Everything about it fills me with existential dread, I must rub my own face in it.

[@Stiksta]

There's this game called "Freelancer" for PC that came out in the early 2000's. You get to fly around various solar systems and celestial bodies in a personal spaceship. And there are just... areas... in that game that are really rough to handle for me mentally. Even if it's not like there's some monster out there to punish you. And the 3D plane you can explore goes in infinite directions up and down. Bumping into some rock in some purple clouded hellhole and spiraling down into a direction I don't belong in was terrifying. I dunno why I but I just preferred to think of the game as a 2D one on a flat plane. The thought of there being some infinite expanse above and below me just could not be something I could safely mentally wrap my head around. It gets bad when there's like heavily radioactive areas and/or minefields with potential enemy patrols lol, but even in the "empty" maps it was still something I always hated traveling through.

[@GuhPerson]

SAME BRO

[@usensitivead]

"Megalophobia" Megalovania reference!1!1!1!1!1!!1

[@jakecavendish3470]

I don't think this really counts as a phobia, it's a legit and logical fear of a place that would 100% kill you

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

​@@camorangerenthusiast6 unless you're lucky (or unlucky)

[@lofkii]

even looking at a picture of space makes me uneasy and sometimes I'm so paranoid that when I look at an image and touch it, I think I'll be teleported into space (weird ik, but that's what a phobia is)

[@jakecavendish3470]

@@lofkii I think that's more than a phobia 😬

[@scottydu81]

It’s unreasonable to think that space could kill you unless you really try hard to get there lol

[@jakecavendish3470]

@@scottydu81 You might fall off the earth, it's why I always wear heavy shoes

[@cosmosapiens216]

Being a giant space nerd myself, i will share a few real "horror" stories about space. You might have heard of the Apollo 1 fire incident, when the newly designed Apollo spaceship was about to launch with three astronauts onboard. 27 January 1967, during a test on the launch pad with the astronauts in the cabin with the hatches closed and locked, a fire broke out inside. The astronauts tried their best to get the hatch open again and get out, but considering the fact that the capsule's atmosphere was filled with 100% Oxygen and it takes a while to get the hatch opened, you can imagine what happened. You can find images of the interior of the capsule and the spacesuits after the incident, and there's even a recording of the transmissions of the astronauts as it was happening. All of it lasted just a few seconds. After that, the spacecraft had to be redesigned to have also Nitrogen in the atmosphere and generally more safer. Rest In Peace Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. Just three months after on 23 April, The Soviet Union launched their newly made Soyuz spaceship with Cosmonaut (Russians call their astronauts Cosmonauts) Vladimir Komarov onboard. The flight overall faced a lot of problems controlling the orientation and one of the solar panels used to power the ship failed to deploy. A decision was ultimately made to abort the mission and bring the cosmonaut back as soon as possible. But unfortunately, the main parachute failed to unfold to slow the capsule down. He tried manually deploying the backup chute but it got tangled with the drogue parachute (a smaller parachute to keep the G-forces low during parachute deployment). As a result, the capsule crashed into the ground at about 40m/s (131ft/s), which was obviously way faster than normal. You can find the picture of his charred remains in a casket after being recovered from the destroyed capsule. I gotta way, it wasn't pretty. There are descriptions saying he crashed into the ground while crying in rage. The audio can be found on the article linked below. Rest In Peace Vladimir Komarov. www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage The most popularised one is definitely Apollo 13, while on the way to the moon just like Apollo 11, the oxygen tank blew up that almost killed the three astronauts onboard. It's a miracle how they all survived and made it back. Just imagine, they could have died as the exolpsion could have torn the capsule's walls exposing them to the vacuum of space, they could have run out of power freezing to death or suffocated to death by the build-up of CO2, or the heatshied could have malfunctioned turning the capsule into a literal meteor, the parachute might have failed just like Soyuz 1 above, or in the worst case in my opinion, the spaceship could've drifted into an unreturnable trajcetory because the spacecraft's engine failed to ignite. This meant they would struggle to live with almost a week worth of supplies left knowing they aren't going to make it back, while they could be the Earth just there outside of their windows. And for those if you wondering what mission control centers would do if they knew the astronauts were stranded and they had no way to get back after literally trying EVERYTHING, the most likely scenario will be making their ends as respectible as possible. They could let them talk to their families and say their goodbyes, and when it is time, the mission control would cut their communications to the spacecraft entirely to let the astronauts depart the way they prefer to in privacy. The quick options for the astronauts would be opening the EVA hatch, or they could go as long as they can with the supplies left. There are more stories of disasters like the ones of space shuttle Challenger or Columbia, but you can read about them if you want to. You can also find some fictional horror series on youtube like Local58 or Gemini Home Entertainment which i think are pretty great and worth diving into. But the point i want to make is the horror stories you can find about space aren't just on movies or games, some of them are also real like the ones above. It doesn't require a terrifying alien predator to make something scary, just the fact that their fate is sealed and there's nothing they can do about it is enough for me. And the funny thing is, all of the astronauts know all of the dangers yet trust all of the people and hardware involved including themselves to not let them a reality. They are willing to risk themselves for science and progress to make our lives better down on the ground. That's what makes me not afriad as well. In sight of the vastness of space and everything in it, we feel scared because we didn't know what they were and what's out there. But we also feel amazed by the beauty of it and some of us are willing to actually go out there for themselves and figure out what's going on. I think both of these feelings are our instincts. We are afraid of the dark and the unknown because of the potential threat lying inside them, but we are also explorers to venture into them to acquire more living space, resources and more importantly, knowledge.

[@adityasharma287]

Wow this really gave me chills.

[@heliax9924]

@@adityasharma287 me too

[@heliax9924]

could not have said it better myself

[@scottydu81]

*_NEPTUNE HAVE M U T A T E D_*

[@idontcare9797]

I remember reading that during testing in a vacuum chamber one of the LEM windows popped out. If that happened in space when they didn't have their spacesuits on it would have been deadly.

[@gregthepeglegpregdreg]

I find it odd that the black abyss of space doesn't terrify me at all, but the abyss of the sea has the ability to paralyze me with fear. I think a big part of why the sea terrifies me is we know it's teaming with life so even when you're so deep that light can't reach you there's something there lurking just beyond your view in the dark, and not only that but in the sea gravity has a stronger influence on you and is constantly pulling you in deeper. Space on the other hand strangely comforts me in its enormity and emptiness.

[@robdeskrd]

That's cause the ocean is EVIL bro, not the stuff in it, I mean the fucking water!

[@bostonian4650]

Both paralyze me for opposite reasons. The ocean scares me because it’s full of life. Space scares me because of it’s emptiness.

[@lucian5389]

Space scares me because its most definitely full of life.

[@gregthepeglegpregdreg]

@@lucian5389 of for sure it is full of it and I definitely get that view, but the enormity of it means I probably would never encounter anything which at least gives me comfort.

[@debrakleid5752]

Agreed to be honest. I live only about 4 miles from the ocean and when I used to swim in it as a child and suddenly my feet has nothing under it it freaks me out. I also live in the Shark Attack Capital of the World which doesn’t help. I haven’t been in an ocean for years (haven’t been in a pool for over 7 1/2 due to my central line in my chest that can’t get wet so I stay on dry land. If I was shot up in a rocket up to space I’m sure I would be scared especially with so much unknown. In reality there is more of the unknown than what is actually known and that goes for what’s here on earth and in space and other celestial bodies.

[@rafox66]

It doesn't really cause fear in me, I find it all so fascinating. And it gives me peace to know that all the stuff I'm worried about doesn't matter at all, the universe existed long before I did and it will keep on existing long after I'm gone. And I'm grateful that I got to be here now and think about it. It's what I love about being human.

[@rafox66]

​@johnblackberry305 Haha very funny, like you know any better. From my perspective there is no escape, there's nothing to escape from. We're here now and some day we won't be. But what do you think?

[@TitaniusAnglesmith]

@johnblackberry305 Well I'm a (sort of) scientist and I don't. So...

[@JB-ns6ek]

@johnblackberry305Such a gross projection of your beliefs on another human. ‘Have you got a surprise coming!’ What are you trying to say loser? That some person you’ve never met is going to hell for eternity? On the contrary then: you’ve been fooled into believing this life is simply a stepping stone to be judged at a shot for some eternal bliss your mind has made up? Hope you enjoy wasting time in the one life you’re surely to be given due to your own projected discomfort of what the after life very likely is ❤ Have a good day!!!!

[@skullarchives-x1m]

Cheesy way to explain you love space but it's a beautiful thought

[@Omega-jg4oq]

That's a reason to believe in God, you think those planets are just floating in Space on their own.. Planet Earth could have been destroyed long ago or we could have died by anything much earlier.. Whatever if Sun burns the Earth down or another planet crashed with Earth or planet Earth itself exploded or Alien invasion or anything else

[@boredb5623]

for me its when looking at a gas giant. not the ones with bands or colour dicrepance like juipiter (thats also scary) but just imagining whats in those clouds. i saw this vid where they said once you get into the clouds its pitch black and the clouds surround you.

[@ubrugernavn5063]

I can't stand the fact that there isn't a solid surface to stand on. It disturbs me to an unreasonable degree

[@VixiDixi]

For me it's the thought of floating in an abyss with nothing around for trillions of miles

[@KingChao]

the worst part is just the absolute scale of it

[@delta-7operativeAK]

For looking at a gas giant and imagining flying through it is just epic. Even my pfp is Jool from KSP.

[@Drakey_Fenix]

I have the same fear. Imagine being on a spaceship that has lost control and is descending into a gas giant and you can hear the wind rushing and pressure growing on the hull while outside the ship it is pitch black. The fact that you will never reach the "surface" alive scares me so much, you're just going to fall until you get crushed by the atmospheric pressure and also get vaporized by the growing temperature. It's both fascinating but also terrifying at the same time.

[@CustomStoryGatherers]

I think the game "Iron Lung" really captures the scariness and loneliness of Space. To think that voyager took several decades just to exit our solar system, after this, it will be thousands and thousands of years of nothingness until it might pass the first star. Space is so unthinkably big and filled with billions and billions of dead planets and moons. Another scary thing is deep time, the fact that perhaps in a trillion trillion trillion years (and probably more) space will still exist but eventually everything with heat will die. Leaving behind empty rocks and black holes for eternity on a unthinkable scale

[@aronenark]

The heat death of the universe is even more terrifying than you imagine. It will not take a “trillion trillion trillion years” for space to go dark. It will happen by the 1 quadrillion year timeframe. This is still at least ten thousand times longer than the lifespan of the universe so far, so it will be in the far future. Yet the fact that it can be quantified is a primally unsettling idea. This will mark the beginning of the Degenerate Era. New stars will no longer form. The entire universe will be full of glacially cold balls of rock and gas, and the decaying remnants of stars. Interstellar space will be lit by an imperceptibly dim glow from the remaining stellar cores as they cool off for eons, approaching absolute zero. No technical instruments could detect such dim light. By one quintillion years, no solar systems will exist; near everything that orbits any star, from planets down to tiny pebbles, will have been ejected from their orbits by random perturbations and encounters with other galactic objects. Galaxies will gradually be consumed by their black holes, or strewn apart into a diffuse nothingness, as the force of gravity that holds them together is overcome by dark energy. Every few billions or trillions of years, a black hole will reach the end of its life; suddenly exploding in a violent burst of Hawking radiation, briefly punctuating the abyss with a blip of detectable energy. Everything will be so distant from everything else that causality will become impossible, as the space between every isolated pocket of matter remaining will be expanding faster than the speed of light. We now reach your “trillion trillion trillion years” mark. Protons are decaying. The remaining atoms in the universe disintegrate gradually, over an impossibly long period of time. All that remains of the universe is a diffuse void of subatomic particles and a handful of only the heaviest remaining supermassive blackholes. In time, one by one, every last blackhole dies, with an approximated timeframe of 10^100 years. All that remains are bosons and leptons, each isolated from the other, never to interact for all of eternity. This is the Dark Era. With no possibility of interactivity, we have effectively reached the end of entropy, and the universe effectively does not exist. This interpretation is predicated on the assumption that the acceleration of the expansion of the universe will continue, and that proton decay occurs, both of which are still contentious, but probable.

[@manicpepsicola3431]

Deep time is extremely more terrifying than deep space

[@Immolator772]

yeah but actually blood is too thick to swim in.

[@thedoublessymbol]

"Leaving behind empty rocks and black holes for eternity on a unthinkable scale" not only that, but if protons decay, then everything will eventually vaporize into nothing leaving only black holes. And if that doesn't happen, then quantum tunneling converts all atoms into iron-56, and everything becomes an iron star which all eventually decay away into black holes

[@georgerafa5041]

That's what physicists speculate and it may very well be true. But there's no way to know for certain. Human understanding of science is always changing.

[@WoHJosh]

Seeing pictures of planets unnerves me. They’re all images I feel like I wasn’t supposed to see. Even in them being massive they’re really nothing in comparison to the vast void. This video was fantastic. This is a odd fear I’ve always had since as long I can remember. It’s almost instinct like. I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s felt this.

[@ahuramazda980]

I feel the same way. It's like we extended a magnifying glass to an object and violated nature/God because our biology alone cannot accomplish such a feat. I remember looking at Jupiter and its moons through a telescope and feeling nervous as though I was in the act of breaking a law.

[@tkomod]

the idea of sitting in the edge of a crater, and seeing nothing but a huge hole and pure black, is terrifying.

[@graviidy]

I agree actually, like even standing at the edge of a big pool and looking down the deepest part, not seeing the surface floor, is scary af. Thalassophobia kicks in xD

[@lowgpu1687]

I remember as a little kid, my brother, dad, and I would go to the pool. The pool was around 5' deep, and I would usually jump in first. Every time the idea of sharks and the unknown came to mind when I was alone in the pool, I'd freak out and literally RUN out of the pool LOL @@graviidy

[@KreatandZonalwolf2]

i know what feeling@@graviidy

[@a-person2310]

I think space and quantum physics have made me believe this: we have significance. Yes, there are massive galaxies to which we are a speck. To subatomic particles we are impossibly large. Our significance is in the connections we have with the people and other forms of life around us. If we are alone in space, we have each other. If we are not alone in space, then we have to expand the idea of ‘each other’

[@everythingfootball8620]

We are the thinking and feeling parts of universe. We are the cosmos pondering itself. If the universe has no purpose, then the only purpose that matters is the one we give it.

[@a-person2310]

@@everythingfootball8620 My absolute favorite Carl Sagan quote, and he has some absolutely legendary ones about astronomy. It’s something hard to grapple with, but understanding it allows a greater connection with our surroundings, and not the separation that drives many people insane.

[@JohnFromThere]

no not really man

[@anirudhmitra4232]

@@everythingfootball8620 universe doesn't work according to humans and is not obliged to. We just give our minds some reason to calm down our fear.

[@Numinon]

Finally somebody with a brain. I applaud you, genuinely.

[@christiangeisner2928]

There is a short story in The Illustrated Man called Kaleidoscope, and it is just a man's thoughts as he drifts off into space, his connection with his crew mates being cut off. It is one of the most terrifying things I've read

[@SuperLollerz]

Thank you for this comment!! Immediately went to go find a PDF of this to read it

[@Emma-qh2nf]

You should listen to space oddity by David Bowie!

[@SB-131]

I saw this in a play! very good!!!!!!!!

[@christiangeisner2928]

@@Emma-qh2nf I did just relisten to it, and I forgot how lonely the end felt. For most of it, it just felt mystical, but halfway through it felt hopeless. Thank you for suggesting this :)

[@rachellee8533]

Leaving a comment to remember to look into this later

[@mcamazed]

Imagine being on LSD in space, something incredibly fascinating and terrifying at the same time to think about

[@lucascrider3907]

Don’t know if my brain could handle it lol

[@zombiekila187]

no doubt you would have a bad trip, way to overwhelming

[@vbgsantander]

I knew someone would write this...God damn hippies!! JK i would love to try that

[@Saturnia2014]

Your mind would shatter into a trillion pieces; then, because of the sheer panic, you'd tear a hole in your space suit, causing the vacuum of space to end you.

[@richardlawson6787]

I'd rather be on alcohol...and I don't even drink

[@slurples149]

I've honestly never felt this way about space. Space has always felt weirdly comforting, no one and nothing around but the millions of stars in the sky

[@liar-888]

Yep. Nothing matters when you’re in space except yourself

[@Ella-li3sd]

@BrivalRB life could be a dream

[@Dr_Mid]

yeah same

[@Nimbus3690]

Damn really? Space is so dreadful

[@LightSeerzKing]

that if most of those stars came close to us. It would be over for us

[@constantinexi6893]

The idea of thinking of planets as almost Lovecraftian horrors (like the point of the video about if Saturn were close) makes them seem like massive entities, their composition and layers almost like the anatomy of some cosmic horror.

[@otavio_reisr12]

-" The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest fear to mankind is the fear of the unkown." - H.P Lovecraft

[@elijahsmall5873]

👌

[@cherubin7th]

To me space gives me hope and peace. I guess it was because I am a Star Trek watcher. I also studied physics, and the large space actually is full of stability and protection. Jupiter cannot jump out of its path, because it is way too heavy to be moved. It is not like in the game at 9:50. Things in space don't happen easily.

[@NightmareRex6]

ever when realized dreamign tryed to noclip as far as can?

[@davisdf3064]

Same, although i can't help but still feel... eerie? When looking at gast giants. Those enourmous planets are easy to spot in the night sky (Jupiter and Saturn)... Yet we know so little of them. We barely understand how their Magnetosphere is created. And don't even get me started on Uranus and Neptune's, their Magnetospheres are even OFF-CENTER!

[@lyreofgilgamesh]

Yes, as a Star Trek watcher too here, space and celestial objects give me a calming reassurance that I cannot fully put into words. I personally think the fact that there are objects for example, WAY larger than Earth is VERY reassuring because if hypothically our planet was one of the largest solid objects in the universe it would be much more terrifying. The gas giants are protecting us and have been for billions of years after all.

[@EmperorDionx]

Spotted the Elon Musk fan

[@Immolator772]

it gives you hope and peace? Knowing how small we are compared to space is truly terrifying.

[@angel_existential]

I have this phobia pretty severely. I hate thinking about the reality of our existence. Its too weird.

[@riddlesticks]

Me too 😢 how do you deal with it?

[@boombasher103]

I’ve always found photos of planets, especially gas giants, really unsettling. They’re just…floating out there. And they’re ridiculously big but still completely lifeless and tiny compared to the nothingness around them

[@USSFFRU]

The scary thing about the gas is they're just there. Staring at you as you stare back.

[@dfxedits4607]

​@@USSFFRUit doesnt even terrify me that these planets are inhospitable, its the fact that they exist for nothing living to exist on it in the first place

[@USSFFRU]

@@dfxedits4607 It's like abandoned towns, unlike abandoned towns where you atleast get the comfortable feeling that people were here already, you already know for a start you're alone with nobody. No animals, no bacteria, no humans, no nothing. Just you and the air and whatever God that's looking down at you.

[@dfxedits4607]

@@USSFFRU "no bacteria" must be a clean ass place then LMAO, terror off, self comfort and nirvana ON

[@M-fk5eg]

⁠@@dfxedits4607until you realize you’re considered bacteria yourself... PANIC MODE ON

[@robinelisabethstervik5183]

In the podcast The Villain Was Right, Craig Fay presents an interesting take on the idea of the Xenomorph (one which doesn't work when we get past Alien and Aliens, but those were the movies they were taking on). The characters refer to the creature as the perfect predator, but when you actually go through its traits, that's not the case; they reproduce in huge numbers and grow to adult size in no time, they're built to run and hide themselves in the dark, they live in massive colonies, and when something tries to attack it, it produces a toxic chemical. Those aren't the traits of a lion, or a crocodile, or a human. Those are the traits of prey. These are traits it shares with rabbits, deer, and ants. And if we imagine a native ecosystem for the Xenomorph, where they play the role of ants; what does the ant eater look like?

[@azrieldalusong5042]

To think Xenomorphs are just prey in their home world is fucking terrifying.

[@radioactivegaming6781]

God damn thank you for telling me that now my imagination is gonna scare me

[@j99044]

So then what could the predator be?

[@DrSpaceman42]

that's bananas!

[@CrankyB1tsch]

this is one of the best ideas i've come across to

[@smoogs1841]

Still literally my favorite video on KZbin. I'm not scared of space but I understand peoples fear because it makes you feel very small. Every birth, death, thought, person, entire lifetimes, all achievement ever completed by any known living creature ever on a rock in space hundreds of thousands of times smaller than the sun which is just one of billions of stars in our galaxy and billions to trillions of galaxies in the universe and past that there is nothing or an infinite universes.

[@Lasagna_Garfield_]

I don’t understand this way of thinking. Like yeah we’re tiny but we’re sentient and intelligent, creative etc. which is a lot more to say than just being huge. I’m open to hearing why I’m wrong though bcuz I genuinely just don’t understand it

[@TitaniusAnglesmith]

@@Lasagna_Garfield_ I can't speak for anybody, I don't have that fear, but I've heard from someone that the idea that their life has no greater meaning makes them depressed.

[@reeldirtiestudios]

I'll never forget the terror I felt in my chest when my father handed me a pair of binoculars one night when we were camping and I looked up and I legit saw infinite stars going forever as far as I could see

[@kazmiller7195]

What lmao

[@xxitseroonxx2603]

Gas giants are the ones that scare the hell out of me. I remember havibg a dream about saturn. The dream was super wierd but let me explain it to you in a nutshell: I was an astronaut and I was outside earths atmosphere (by that I mean I was like (on earth), if u know what I mean, idfk). But I saw something coming closer to earth SUPER FAST. And that planet was Saturn. All i heard was saturns sounds. It crashed into earth and in that moment I woke up. I swear I have some beef n' shit with saturn ever since that dream

[@lorenzop.8249]

Cant even bring myself tonread your damn dream

[@Picklemonster8557]

Bro started his villain arc right there

[@randomguy7951]

Damn, this nightmare of yours sounds exactly like a famous horror manga called "Hellstar Remina", in which astronomers spotted a strange planet moving erraticaly through the void, and after one scientist observed it and went mad saying the planet looked back at him, it started moving towards the Earth

[@Kotarojujo170]

Bro started beef with a planet

[@JayTheThugginAlien]

Wow that’s terrifying

[@PokemonProfessorNebula]

For me what makes me terrified of space is knowing that as many stars and planets there are, the odds of you ever coming across another planet like ours is slim with how big and empty the universe truly is. A Hundred thousand light years of Trillions of stars in our Galaxy, each with a varying number of planets, and it's still just so empty in between.

[@MountainDuwu]

The game that comes to mind is Iron Lung by David Szymanski, I don’t even have Astrophobia but the premise itself got me on edge. The game is scary not because of what happens, but because of what doesn’t happen. It keeps you on edge and doesn’t even do anything until the end.

[@MountainDuwu]

I swear I’m not working for David, it’s just a good game.

[@ic0nic707]

I’m honestly really hoping for some more Iron Lung content. It’s definitely possible, considering the game got an update containing literally just a lore computer a while ago.

[@fumothfan9]

Isnt that more thasslophobia fear of water? But yeah same concept. An ocean of pure human blood really sets the stage

[@ic0nic707]

@@fumothfan9 The lore to me is the scarier part, every planet and star just dissapears from existence leaving the only life as the many colonies on the remaining space stations, suffering wars, lack of resources, and overall just the panic and confusion that the rest of humanity has after an event like that.

[@zeeboss7553]

Also the story itself is terrifying to think about. “The quiet rapture” is literally an event where most of the universe just disappears. There is no explanation because how could anyone possibly know the cause. We know so little about space that we don’t even know something like that could actually happen.

[@redneck472]

I've always been completely terrified by the absolute scale of these planets and just the fact that things this huge can even exist. I once played universe sandbox in vr and made the mistake of accidentally making the Earth basically life size. So there I was, staring at what my brain thought was the actual Earth in front me. Let's just say I didn't play universe sandbox in vr again.

[@bourkey1567]

VR universe sandbox was chilling. Seeing planets that close up compared to me was something else.

[@Radical_Larry]

Try SpaceEngine in VR, whole new level of immersion and scale

[@ericgolightly8450]

You look at the Earth the same way an atom looks at you.

[@jaymxu]

@@ericgolightly8450 No, an atom would be a grain of sand looking at earth. Not even close.

[@ericgolightly8450]

@@jaymxu Close-ish. I didn't mean for it to be exact.

[@benm3382]

I'll never forget playing Mass Effect for the first time. I felt like it really captured how I feel about space exploration. The joy and surrealism of meeting other races, the unfathomable scale of the lore as you read about other planets, the eerily cold calculation of planning your trajectory into the deep nothingness of spaces, the deadly silence of approaching and exploring an empty planet, and the gut-wrenching rumble of a horrible creature appearing where there shouldn't be anything. Such a wonderful game, hard to believe it came out only 11 years after Mario 64 introduced most of us to our first 3D game.

[@DillonCatterson]

Those empty uncharted worlds with nothing but a strange pyramid along with random corpses of dead turians or salarians, mixed with the howling sounds of wind is pure astrophobia.

[@RJSQsAccount]

I love how he's always able to keep a mild humorous tone while covering such a dark topic. Kudos to him.

[@RJSQsAccount]

Yo, a heart that fast!?! That's some real dedication.

[@acerlaptop2661]

4:08 that part cracked me up 😂

[@ahronthegreat]

Space isn’t a dark topic

[@TheCrispyCrumbler-nz9gi]

@@ahronthegreat are you suuuuureee?

[@ahronthegreat]

@@TheCrispyCrumbler-nz9gi shit I’m a reta*d🤦‍♂️

[@pedrolemos8114]

In the past years KZbin is lacking creative and entertaining channels, yours is the ones that keep KZbin alive

[@kalleranta2260]

Anyone remember in Garry's Mod the space sandboxes? They terrified me, even if I knew it was just a small 'sandbox' uncomparable to real space.

[@zapdog_]

god i wish spacebuild wasn't dead, i never got the chance to get good at it

[@hvvnsent]

I get the same vibes from Outer Wilds. Even though the planets are not realistic or to scale in any way, I was still terrified about the idea of it all

[@justaneditygangstar]

No mans sky definitely freaks me out

[@maksymiliank5135]

I remember when I was a kid, my mom bought me a couple of DVDs about the solar system. Each video was dedicated to another planet, its moons and so on. The first thing I felt when i was watching one of them was something in between fascination and fear. It gave me chills

[@T-W-M]

I have a feeling that humanity has already experienced/exposed to our face the realities of what’s going on. We just see it as typical entertainment so we don’t bat an eye. The beauty of brainwash.

[@cosmicnomad8575]

I’m glad there is someone else that has a certain fear of space but at the same time draws an excitement and fascination from it. It’s truly an incredible thing

[@mqnm]

What do you think about rouge planets?

[@ed3n4]

The noises Saturn makes are always my favorite. It's so eerie and terrifying, but oddly beautiful.

[@steezyonyoutube9896]

Like why does it sound like that 💀

[@bjmmstudios1004]

@@steezyonyoutube9896 A child is literally riding the car of the sun 💀 and the sun's car going like, 69420 miles per minute.💀💀

[@johnwirk]

What got me was one night at the age of 12 or 13, I looked at the stars one night and realized what Im looking at is possibly infinite and in knowing that, we are lost in space, infinite space. I instantly got a little dizzy from my mental simulation of being in space. My sense of direction was gone, I felt lost, and then panic ensued. Since then Ive enjoyed learning about space and all but I'll never forget when it hit me.

[@georgesb3388]

I've had this fear ever since I was a kid and I never knew there was a name for it. When I was younger I was one of those kids who was always obsessed with space, and the reason why is the same reason that I am interested in things like horror movies or heavy metal music or spicy food today. It's just exciting to engage in something that is challenging for you, to experience the fear of the unknown, and to overcome something you didn't think you were capable of. The concept of space is perfect for media that tries to engage with you in that way because it is the quintessential example of something that is beyond our understanding as humans, not just as individuals, but as a species.

[@docchicken245]

I like what you said, specially: "to overcome something you didn't think you were capable of".

[@docchicken245]

It reminds me as well of Nietzsche's eternal return.

[@PupokGeims2003]

imagine that you are walking in an open space where the sky is open and you start falling into the sky

[@Kyrnyx]

I've had nightmares like that. There was gravity in space and I fell below the Earth. Fuck that.

[@scro0213]

Lay down on the grass outside and look upside down, it always makes me feel like I’m gonna fall into the sky and it’s terrifying.

[@Kyrnyx]

@@scro0213 I did exactly that while high as a kite. Do not recommend.

[@nexus7860]

Bro that is exactly what I have fear since I can remember. it even gets to the point were I can't lay down without being underneath or holding something.

[@Boundlessness]

I’ve had a nightmare like that before where gravity would suddenly reverse but only for me. I never had enough time to run and reach something to grab onto before I was taken into the sky

[@MordyMcCheese]

I absolutely love your editing and narration, my man. You're funny as hell and have great charisma. Its nice to watch an Astrophobia video that's not all doom and gloom.

[@Kyrnyx]

Saturn sounds like Hell itself and cosmic horror had a miserable love child. That shit actually gave me gnarly chills.

[@nikolayordanov3115]

Astrologically makes sense :D

[@Kyrnyx]

@quandale dingle He can keep that honor. I'd prefer my furniture not start floating as soon as I open my mouth.

[@Kyrnyx]

@quandale dingle I was going off of mythology. I guess the joke went over my head lol.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

And the ruling class worship it, no coincidence

[@YE4rt]

I have been searching online about Astrophobia and could barely find anything. I have always, and will always, love space. Last year, I wanted a telescope for my birthday. I am so fascinated with it and what is out there, yet it is the one thing I am absolutely horrified of. Occasionally, I can't even open up Google Earth without recoiling and closing it down immediately. Thank you for covering this in a video!

[@brasileiroloko5375]

you should try space engine vr

[@Darthwatches89]

You trying to kill this guy?

[@Lothnar5070]

To be honest I've never had this fear of space, I'm more fascinated with it for different reasons so it's an interested perspective you have on it. Great video

[@blckrig1817]

When I was younger I used to have nightmares about there being two moons in the sky, or other massive celestial bodies dwarfing the moon. It’s one of the reasons I love space and am simultaneously fascinated and terrified of it! A fear recently reignited with the emergence of analog horror

[@joshualogsdon7471]

I have vivid memories of going to a planetarium for a field trip in elementary school. I remember walking in the dim room, seeing the framed pictures of space, and being absolutely paralyzed with fear. It was hard to understand at the time but this video has done an amazing job explaining my repressed childhood memory! 😅

[@chikenxlegend1833]

sbvc?

[@bobhope5114]

My intermediate school had it's own planetarium...other schools would send their kids to ours on a regular basis lol

[@cristakatsumi8515]

same but at the Los angeles Griffith observatory in the 90s when i was little lol it was scary. lol

[@scottydu81]

The plane-arium

[@A.The.H.]

Hey this is an awesome video. I was in the middle of a full on anxiety attack and was breaking down, funnily enough this video actually calmed me down. I even find space pretty scary myself, very unnerving and brings fear in me. Thanks for the nightmare fuel!

[@nuncapasaran9374]

Thanks for sharing this. I actually have spent a lot of my life compelled by the stars, sometimes spending nights staring up at them to escape my loneliness, which is kind of weird in the context of this video since really they're a testament to how alone we are. But I grew up somewhat obsessed with space, and sci-fi horror being one of my favorite genres. The haunted derelict space ship floating around forever in the middle of nothing. The experience so alien to the human mind and so far from home that it makes you go mad. I think of Space Odyssey, just something so strange to us that it can only be expressed as a metaphor, a man in a room, seeing himself age and die and be reborn, trying desperately to cling to the things he knows in his mind, to cling to his humanness because it's the only way he can cope with this terrifying thing that people aren't built to come into contact with. These things are just so deeply interesting to me, but I can also completely understand how they can be horrifying and create phobias in people. I play a lot of Elite: Dangerous and in that game you travel tens of thousands of light years and it can be quite lonely and isolating and yeah kind of scary when you're out that far. But in real life I can totally see those challenges in space flight if we ever get to the point of extended journeys to other planets or stars or whatever. It seems like the kind of experience that can break you down mentally and that as awesome as space is, we're not necessarily built for it and it is overwhelmingly big and staggeringly unknowable.

[@raygun23]

Old nasa photos of planets always terrified me, and it’s mainly what got me interested in space. The pictures of titan and Venus surface are scary.

[@CaitNightz]

I think Iron Lung can give you a similar experience as the games you mentioned. In that game, you're basically a prisoner in a submarine in an alien planet, which is covered with a sea of blood. It combines astro phobia and talasophobia

[@Gloverfield]

Gas giants scares me the most, just imagine being trapped in a entire darkness while drowning...

[@Roy_ow]

Yeah... Falling , falling , falling...

[@Videomaker-pz4xm]

How can you drown in gas when there is no liquid

[@Gloverfield]

@@Videomaker-pz4xm lets not nickpick things...

[@lepperkin]

@@Videomaker-pz4xm It becomes like a liquid at certain pressures. At great depths, the immense gravity combined with the weight of the gas above will cause gas to behave similarly if not identically to liquid

[@derekrequiem4359]

@@Videomaker-pz4xm Gas giants still have liquid.

[@raisinbran1421]

I find space scary because of how easily isolated you can be, whether or not you’re with a crew, the thought of being away from everyone and your home in a vast void of nothing is scary

[@jollygrapefruit786]

When I was a teenager and started really learning about about the cosmos, I would work myself into panic attacks frequently considering all the things that could kill us all in mere hours or even moments, especially black holes. I still found it fascinating and beautiful though.

[@Messier42-handle]

atleast there are none of those black holes nearby

[@Gman89-o7t]

The story by H.P. Lovecraft, " The Colour Out Of Space", brought me some terrifying thoughts of "what is really out there?". We have yet to know what is out in that unfathomable dark vastness and how do we handle something that doesn't obey our Earth's natural laws? Scary stuff once you actually think about it.

[@bourkey1567]

One of my favorite Lovecraft tales

[@LOBSTER_BOSS]

For a while now I have had this personal thesis about darkness & the fear of the unknown. To better explain my ideas on the 4 different kinds of darkness(Hylophobia, Thalassophobia, Speluncaphobia, & Astrophobia). I would usually use YT vids to better illustrate my points, but for the longest time, I couldn't find any video that went in depth on Astrophobia & the fear of the infinite darkness of space, until now. I especially like how u showed off other creators that I had used as examples of these phobias. It puts a neat bow on this Nyctophobia project of mine. Also great video 👍💯

[@artdonovandesign]

The best and funniest science narrator ever! 😄 What a great episode.

[@mariohomem838]

Yep. That feeling when you accidentally come across a rare yellow unfathomable Moon at night

[@evanjones5571]

I've always been a space enthusiast. Almost everything about space has fascinated me, from learning about all the different celestial bodies in our solar system to how one day we could colonize them and call them home. For some reason I have a feeling of peace whenever I see pictures of astronauts walking on the moon with its grey surface and the black sky. It looks lonely, quiet, and a place where I can just be alone with myself and my thoughts while walking among the surface and just taking in the view. But that's just me and I can understand why many can feel fear when thinking of it as you have explained. This was a great video by the way and I'm definitely subscribing. Surprised it doesn't have at least 100k views.

[@angelsandautobots]

"The greatest mercy is the human mind's inability to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance amidst a black sea of infinity. It was not meant we should venture far." - H.P. Lovecraft

[@ericgulseth74]

I've always had a dual awe/dread when it came to astronomy. The size, distance, and mass of everything just fills me with awe and then dread when the reality of it hits. We exist in such the smallest wedge, on the smallest mote of dust, in a unfathomably huge universe; a universe that just won't care if we disappear. I strive to appreciate that we do exist and we are here to witness all of this.

[@Nikieplays]

Anytime space images cross my feed I get an instant feeling of excitement and comfort. I take photos of the night sky when I can and seeing as there’s so many awesome beautiful things to view and possibly explore, even if they’re amazingly dangerous and deadly, it gives me a sense of excitement. It’s the exploration, discovery and artistic elements of space that drag me back for more.

[@ayysea5717]

3:14 i cannot stress how much i ABSOLUTELY LOVE the fact that thing in space sound the exact way you would expect space to sound

[@warriorbeard8872]

I find space absolutely mind blowing, beyond interesting and ultimately the most thought provoking of anything I can imagine. But the thought of leaving earth and journeying to space scares me to the bone. I'm happy on our little island floating in space time and looking out in wonder

[@emoplayeranime]

As someone with astrophobia, I can completely agree with everything you say. The thought of floating around in something like a void is something that gets me a lot. Thanks for uploading this, I can FINALLY relate to someone who has the same fear

[@geoffdb8118]

If the universe is so big, why won't it fight me ?

[@HoloFizz]

Being a fan of New Who, The second you mentioned the design of space suits being creepy my mind went to this scene as well. So I was surprised when you mentioned silence of the library, me being new to this channel.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

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[@burnt_frog]

"There are 2 possibilities, either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying" - Arthur C. Clark

[@henok_gk]

Being alone in the universe FAR more terrifying. The concept of how life came to be becomes even more bizzare.

[@Crimsonfireball]

Sometimes when laying down on a grassfield looking at the blue sky, it makes me imagine falling into the sky and gives me chills.

[@Lunar994]

This brings me back to a scene in Deep Impact where one guy was shot off a comet, never to be seen again, by a fissure. I think, though, the movie that really showed me the horror of space was "Gravity", where an accident causes a couple surviving astronauts to be stranded and at the mercy of space.

[@nilo3309]

i actually think the contrary, it fascinates me how just absurdly huge a thing can be, i absolutely adore seeing massive planets compared to ours, i don´t know why, but i do.

[@Eye_Exist]

the most fundamentally terrifying thing being, that its whole existence itself is completely nonsensical and against the very logic as we know it itself. and yet it has so distinctive and specific form it literally follows its own laws. it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, and yet its literally all we know of.

[@megab528]

for me, it's beauty. the absolute beauty of the universe is scaled to perfection, no words can comprehend how much i adore space. but also fear, afraid of being sucked up into the sky, being lobbed millions of miles into a whirlpool galaxy and onto another world, far from home.

[@isabelhawkins8955]

The episode of Doctor Who called “Midnight” triggered this in me BIG TIME the concept of a life form adapted to conditions completely hostile to any life form anyone, even The Doctor, knows of? I mean, it’s only logical to me that our form of life is not the only form of life bc conditions on different planets vary so much in space. Also…..just the fact that if I was in space and i got separated from the space station or whatever and that I’d just keep floating forever and space is just really fucking scary

[@divikplays1544]

Soooo super fun fact, space isnt actually black its so bright that we arent able to see the brightness for what it is so we perceive it as black, its the same with black holes black holes also arent actually black its just they're so bright we cant perceive the brightness

[@nerdytube5351]

I heard of the astronauts who almost got lost in the void while returning from the moon. Even the thought of their dead bodies floating about in the darkness of space absolutely terrified me.

[@marishiten5944]

Yeah. They like, made a movie about it. It was a big deal. Crazy you heard of it.

[@portalfan0438]

I have studied astronomy since I was very young and I think that something you seemed to only slightly touch upon was the distances involved. The spaces between stars or galaxies that even with advanced technology take years to traverse. The places in space with no light from stars, no planets, just nothing for what would be several millennia worth of travel time. That terrifies me, but also intrieges me. Like the bottom of the ocean being pitch black, I just wanna really see whats out there.

[@wormskull2454]

@20:27 I don’t want to be that “UM ACTUALLY” guy but, the ringed planet isn’t actually LV-426/Acheron. The planet is a gas giant named Calpamos, LV-426 is one of its moons, presumably the one The Nostromo is right in front of in that gorgeous shot. You can see the planet from the moons surface @20:47

[@NGinka]

For someone with this kind of phobia you surely watch a lot of space related horror stuff. If I was to make a video about my phobias, it would be exactly 0 seconds long, because just nope. Great video, thanks for the nightmares, I'm gonna go listen to 10 hours of Jupiter ambient relaxing meditation asmr music now...

[@_Mark41]

Underappreciated video. Seriously, great job! Altho I understand the fear of space, and the reasons people might feel like that; My view on space is more of, grandious exploration, yet, with alot of mystery to it. It doesn't mean i find it terrifying, just very fascinating and beautiful at the same time.

[@cloudsaysthings]

One of the scariest pieces of space media for me was Gravity. That movie gives me so much fucking anxiety. Being stranded on the moon is one thing, but stranded in the vast expanse of space, floating endlessly? Horrifying to an extent I cannot describe with words.

[@DMatt343]

I loved this video, and I'm so glad your channel was recommended to me. Keep up the great work! That Doctor Who bit was terrifying, by the way.

[@davidoh14]

Already a new favourite channel - love the approach you take to the design and method of delivery. Someone else crippled by existential dread is always an upvote.

[@wessel7089]

I’ve watched this video a lot. Maybe about 20 times? Idk why, but I love it. Such a well made video. Plus, space is just cool and stupid as hell.

[@NoFuqinIdea]

It's a little bit more out there with it's lore and it's science-fantasyness but I find Metroid, especially Metroid Prime 1 to be an amazing example of astrophobia in Video Games. Having a received distress signal from an unknown space station and it's following exploration being what starts the game still gives me shivers. It's almost as nerve wracking as the movie Alien (which actually inspired metroid).

[@artagle_14]

Personally I find the NES Metroid unnerving to me. Yes it is an old game but with the lack of story telling since the technology wasn’t there yet you just have to wander around the area not knowing where you are or who is there with you.

[@safespacebear]

The way you speak of being unnerved by space, I feel similar about tall mountains. Thinking about them gives me shivers. They are just so large and imposing

[@YABSGlobal]

I love this guys humor 😂❤ *new subscriber*

[@rb_memorablerexog8589]

space has never been scary to me but the flood from halo really changed that the story's about it and its history is one of the scariest stories ive ever heard

[@holiggan2008]

I love your references to Silent Hill through music, in this and other videos. And I'm also fascinated by space. Not necessarily fear, but a deep respect and curiosity. That's one of the reasons why I love Lovecraft: he has a way to put that kind of fear of the unknown and our tiny role in the universe in a great way.

[@heyaple]

The black sky above you makes you really think that "in space, nobody can hear you scream"

[@QuakeGamerROTMG]

Interesting video, I've definitely felt feelings of isolation and loneliness seeing and thinking about the universe like you describe here but it's very heavily outweighed by the sheer beauty of it all. We're small, yes and we could be wiped out in an instant by an uncaring universe but despite that I'm so glad we get to be a part of it. In my mind no fear can match the awe.

[@rooodis456]

The hollow moon theory is so terrifying and I love it. Some neon genesis evangelion type things

[@channingbloom7125]

“Space” as in going to distant planets and seeing finding new life forms is very intriguing for me. The “SPACE” between the planets is what scares me. I mean just think about it. The only thing that’s separates you from certain death is a mere pieces/layers of metal. That terrifies me.

[@alphanumeric6582]

I always imagined a moon very close to Uranus, standing on it and seeing your whole line of sight just filled with whiteness as you stare into that giant white ball that looks as if you're about to fall in at any moment.

[@Beeyo176]

Good thing I decided to listen to this walking home alone at night with a clear sky overhead 👍

[@friendlytalbot4050]

One of the things that always has stood out for me about space, and which has always given me a sense of pure dread, is how impossibly big and empty it is. We're never realistically going to go anywhere outside of our solar system. The other thing is how space is just nothing but hostile to us. An astronaut out there in space repairing the space station, that really scares me, because of how that emptiness could easily kill the astronaut. Either he gets flung out into space, with no hope of ever surviving other than the slow pain of running out of air, or he could get hit by a micro-meterorite like a bullet. The final thing that I also find scary is not just the end of the universe, where it just quietly dies out and everything just stops existing, or how ancient it is. It's the fact that it even had a beginning, and that it's still considered young. How do we even comprehend any of this?

[@mouhalo]

thanks for talking about this, everytime when i watch a video of a planet or star zooming in , i literally get paralised and anxious , its very difficult to explain but one of my biggest nightmare is to be face to face with a star . terrifying and a shame because i love space and space games but its plagued by all that fear and anxiousness. so big