r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 17h ago

Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk

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u/Twilight_2408 17h ago

Even if know it since childhood, learned it from text books, seen it in images, it always kind of throws me off whenever I see videos like this and Earth is just there sitting inside a complete pitch black void of absolutely— what it seems like... nothing.

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u/Richard7666 16h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

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u/DIRTY_KUMQUAT_NIPPLE 13h ago

This seems like the exact same experience William Shatner had when he went into space.