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3Hotdogs

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5. If ya won the lottery, would you buy a ticket?

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Sat Jul 24, 2021, 08:10 AM

Jul 2021

I wouldn't.

When I was a kid, '50s's there were tv shows that were space westerns. I wanted to join the Space Academy. No longer.

I think my biggest reaction against me in space is the loneliness when I would look out of the capsule - rocket - spaceship and see the emptiness of it all.

I have enough emotional difficulty imagining the emptiness of my own death without adding the emptiness of space to it.

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