To be scared shirtless of Space...

[Sweets101]

And even more so by the fact we are in it? And there's really no getting away from that.

[TheSecondOfHerName]

The thing about space that makes me uneasy is that if you look down, the down goes on forever.

Disclaimer: I am slightly drunk.

[Honeydragon]

On the bright side the down is also the up

[shuijiao]

Why is it scary? What are you scared of? Like a previous poster I quite like knowing how completely tiny and insignificant we are

Don't go stepping into the Total Perspective Vortex by accident now...

[RosaRosaRose]

losgunna I used to be partial to a milky way. Was that the sweet you can eat without ruining your appetite?

[SuckingEggs]

It's amazing. A great way to get perspective when the world is going nuts over Black Friday.

[EveOnline2016]

This is confusing.

[Room101isWhereIUsedToLive]

But what about hitchhikers et al for eleven year olds? Should I start a new thread? She has a reading level equivalent to a 14 year old...

[Sybys]

Apologies if already posted, but;

i.imgur.com/e9DJjCo.jpg

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

Yanbu. My biggest fear is space and it's enormity. Being stuck just floating. Sounds ridiculous, I know it's ridiculous, but it scares the craps out me.

[GreatFuckability]

I know how you feel OP. It disturbs me too, the idea of this vast...well, space, that goes on forever is a bit overwhelming to me.
I blame watching superman films as a child, when the bad guys were sent spinning for all time in the flat square thingies. Horrifying!

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

TheSecond yes! What a way of describing it!

[ShowMePotatoSalad]

Sybys what's even more incredible about that is, despite its vastness, humans have collated all that information. It blows my mind that we are such a tiny, tiny part of the universe yet we have managed to work out so much about it.

(When I say "we" I mean boffins. I don't know my arse from my elbow half the time).

[shuijiao]

Room I think 11 is the perfect age for Hitchhiker's

[shuijiao]

To be fair, I have an irrational fear of chip pans due to excessive health and safety warnings as a child, so I can't talk.

[Tartyflette]

No sex as such but there are triple-breasted whores in it, Room

[cdtaylornats]

Space isn't a vacuum, it has a lot of stuff in it stars, planets, dust, in fact its got everything in it.

[mumofone1234]

I love thinking about how tiny we are. When I was a kid and had troubles like not having done my homework etc I would comfort myself with the phrase 'think cosmically', meaning remember you are just a tiny dot in a vast universe, and my whole lifetime is not even a millisecond in the timescale of the age of the universe.

Bloody hell, does the universe even have an age? What was there before it came into being?

I also don't understand when they say the universe is expanding...expanding into what?! Isn't the universe everything that exists?

[shuijiao]

Oops, forgot about that Tartyflette. I think a lot of that stuff just went over my head when I read it first time.

[shuijiao]

The universe is everything that exists, but everything that exists is getting bigger

[pregnantat50]

is this a sudden fear sweets

[ShastaBeast]

I hate the insignificance thing, the nothingness and meaninglessness. I had an existential crisis and became a space geek, I'm obsessed but terrified. I watch launches, have books and visited the space centre and Russian space exhibition at the science museum last year, but I'd probably die of fear if I went into space myself. The first woman in space was Russian, she parachuted out of the capsule, amazing but utterly insane. Reading about the first space walk and everything that was going wrong, Leonov was nuts but quite incredible too. Imagine just hanging out teathered to a metal ball in the nothingness of space, and they didn't even know if it was survivable. The Mars thing is fascinating too, there's a docu drama thing on at the moment in the US.

[roseteapot101]

its not that ,that freaks me out its wrapping my head around the concept that space is endless .Yet a concept in life we learn is all things come to a end yet the universe does not there is no end it just go's on and on and on

[EatsShitAndLeaves]

Sorry I don't get it.

It's exciting to me rather than frightening.

Looking up to the stars I see endless opportunities.

[Awwlookatmybabyspider]

I think its more awe inspiring rather than terrifying.
If all the stars in the milky way had names and you were to say them one after another without stopping. It would take you 4,000 years.
If Jupiter were hollow over 1,000 earths would fit inside it

[Moodybuggle]

I get more scared of the idea I think implanted by the lion king but probably a collective unconscious idea that we might end up as stars once we die - because I really don't want to just sit and burn in space for eternity

Actually afterlife terrifies me. Space is scary but at least people go there and we take pictures and stuff.

Gone off on a tangent - I was wondering if it was fear of the Unknown