Captain Kirk doesn't really like space.

[something daft already!!]

William Shatner recently went into space and I don't think he really liked it very much, going by what he said.

After describing the exhilarating launch procedure and beginning of his zero-gravity excursion, Shatner wrote that when he turned around to look into the void of space, he was shocked by the emptiness he found.

"When I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold," Shatner wrote. "All I saw was death."

https://futurism.com/william-shatner-space-grief

Not quite the reaction I would have expected. I would have imagined that space, from space would look quite full of stars and the odd planet. I can see it might make you and Earth seem quite insignificant and fragile.

 

[Lysander]

What he saw was the truth.

 

[GreatAuk]

If Shatner had posted that as a thread here it would definitely be a case of 'worst I went to space and had a profound revelation thread ever'.

 

[robfosters]

He made that assumption from his view of the universe which was about 00000000000000000000.1% of it

 

[Hotwired]

He made that assumption from his view of the universe which was about 00000000000000000000.1% of it

Our closest object is the moon.

I was recently informed that every planet in the solar system can fit in the distance between Earth and the Moon and from a quick check that seems about right.

Space is mind bogglingly empty.

 

[413x]

He made that assumption from his view of the universe which was about 00000000000000000000.1% of it

But at the same time... That's all yours see in99.9999999999999999999 etc of it


Actually you'd see much less

 

[Devilman]

Space is mind bogglingly empty.

So is Bill's head, it would seem

 

[fez]

I hope as he was going up he treated them all to a rendition of Rocket Man.

 

[swillsy]

 

[SPG]

Our closest object is the moon.

I was recently informed that every planet in the solar system can fit in the distance between Earth and the Moon and from a quick check that seems about right.

Space is mind bogglingly empty.

Just play elite dangerous..... aint that the truth even with the distance speeded up its still mind boggingly empty

 

[Raymond Lin]

If one were Captain Marvel that can travel through space without external power and doesn't need to breath at all...Sure, space is full of wonder...

As a mere human that relies on oxygen tank and have no chance of ever reaching of those tiny stars you see....it is just death.

It is a bit like living on a boat at sea...whilst the sea itself looks wondrous, you are not going to live for very long jumping into it.

 

[spaggyboy]

Blokes in his nineties. Of course, he didn't like going to space. Nonagenarians are not exactly the most adventurous bunch of people.

 

[i-bert]

“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

 

[Hades]

Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.