Black hole of my nightmares
This is why I never want to be an astronaut. Watching this video gave me enough anxiety to get my heart racing. At the beginning of my astronomy class back in Senior year, we got an assignment asking us why we were interested in learning about space. I wrote that I was afraid of the unknown mystery of space and wanted to learn more about it so there would be fewer things my imagination could make up to scare me. Unfortunately, it didn’t really work.
At first I thought I was afraid of the dark, and that’s kind of true. I’m not afraid of dark rooms or dark streets, I’m afraid of the dark. The ultimate darkness. And this black hole is about as dark as it gets.
Watch at your own risk.
~D
Categories: Reflecting, Technology
black hole, darkness, fear
You know what’s scarier than a black hole? Intergalactic space. You wouldn’t be able to see stars at all. It would be just black. 1 hydrogen atom per cubic meter.
Black holes at least are bright and destructive.
Anyway, what scares you about the dark?
Wow, thanks. Now I have a whole new thing to be afraid of.
Like I said, I think it’s sort of fear of the unknown. If I’m on a dark street, at least I know I’m on a street, in a city, and that thing over there is a building, and the ground that I’m walking on is concrete.
If I’m floating through some endless abyss, I would be so disoriented that fear would probably just take me over. That’s why I thought taking an astronomy class would help, since actually knowing some facts about space, what it’s like to be in space, and what sorts of forces I’d be subjected to in that environment would probably get the whole “unknown” factor out of “fear of the unknown”. But all I learned is that we don’t know enough to quell my fears. There is always an unknown and so I won’t be signing up to work at NASA any time soon.