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[–] [email protected] 174 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I always thought this one was more haunting.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey! The images of Ryugu that were taken from Hayabusa2. What a sad lonely rock that place is - a loose collection of boulders in an endless orbit, in which it will probably continue without further interaction from now until the end of time. You could sneak a few ghosts onto that place, right enough, and no-one would notice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Somebody please draw this and give the space rock some ghost friends.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Something beautifully haunting about seeing the endless abyss from another rock traveling the cosmos.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That one will stick with me a for a long time. Something about it reminds me of some cosmic perspective of our cold, lonely universe, the vast, VAST fucking stretch of time those rocks and gravel have drifted through boggles the mind. Utter darkness, glittering stars, cold infinity in all directions for billions of years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

To that point, I think it's also unnerving how natural it is. This isn't some alien world. I could go to the Mojave and walk around for 5 minutes to find a photo identical to this. Earth is indistinguishable to one of these rocks hurtling through space, there's just something growing on it very briefly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Yes, but I still think there is something more haunting about a landscape that you know hasn't been touched by anything since maybe before Earth existed, every dust-grain on that surface has sat there for millions and millions of years without being disturbed by so much as starlight. And it will continue to hurtle through space undisturbed long after we're all gone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm jealous of them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

That shot is definitely creepy.