The Archivist

12 April

12 April · 21:20 UTC

Imagine this astronaut slowly descending to the ground. What would he feel when his feet touch the planet? He'd feel a pushing, up into his feet. He wouldn't stop floating like this, it'd just be a floating mixed with that planet pushing up into him, with every step. He's not weightless in this photo, he has the same amount of gravity on him that we do, here on the ground. Curious if people can reboot their experience, to feel themselves literally floating in space (we're in space too, as much as he is, the atmosphere adds no gravity). Floating every moment, but with that Earth under us constantly pushing up into us. Imagine yourself every moment as being lowered onto the Earth like this. Not as someone on the ground with 'weight', having to hold yourself up.

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