A speaker describes buying a ticket for a near-space balloon flight to see Earth from above. Others who've made the trip report that the view reveals the planet's connectedness and makes it feel like a living organism, with humans as just one small part.
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Well, I bought a ticket to space so that I could. It's like a capsule that it's on, like a hot air balloon, and it's like a massive balloon. It's like the size of a football stadium. And it pulls you up into space and then you get a view of the Earth. You get to see the Earth from. From space. Yeah. And look down on it. And I think that, for me, anyway.
It'S a way to see how big and how small our little planet is and how connected we all are. Right. I don't know what I'm going to feel when I get up there, but the people that I talked to that have done it, they said it changed their entire perspective of even other people and animals and the environment. They're like. It looks like a living creature, the whole planet, and we are just this little component of this living creature and that we really are all connected through subatomic particles, atoms, and the planet itself.