I never understood the popular fascination with outer space. When no mans sky was announced I thought I was missing something
It'll still be 1-in-10,000 or something like that but at least we won't have to check them each one by one
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People don't think about how much our conception of beauty has developed according to our evolutionary environment.
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We like flowers because we eat fruit etc. On a planet we didn't evolve on, I fear that beauty would be hard to find for the human eye.
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A purely evolutionary definition of beauty can't account for the beauty of outer space, yes. But aren't the stars beautiful?
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Yea...from earth
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And they're useful to us for nighttime navigation and illumination.
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What about the ever popular Hubble photos of galaxies and nebulae? Even without the colorization and photoshop there's beauty in outer space
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Maybe we only see beauty in extraterrestrial things insofar as they resemble things on earth. Flowers, shells, etc in galaxies.
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That's my theory. I don't think it's a coincidence that we call things by analogous names: the "rings" of Saturn, the "tail" of the comet.
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