EPTi thought the most beautiful thing in the world is to be on top of a mountain, solitary and looking down at the entire world. then i looked up
I started watching an anime called Moonlight Mile (or moonlit mile perhaps). It is about two men who loved to climb mountains by themselves, with the wind and snow shattering against them, yet still pulling through the most dangerous and solitary tasks in the world.
Eventually the men become, with their skills, the first "space construction workers".
It wasn't until I rewatched the NASA International Space Station videos that I could relate to this anime and the men that worked so hard.
To be an astronaut is one of the rarest tasks in our universe. To be a construction-orientated astronaut is one of the most thrilling. Can you imagine having to go outside your spacecraft to perform construction and repair tasks?
Just how damn skilled, passionate and confident would you have to be to be one of the FIVE people in the entire world who does this?
Most anime "lighten" the subject of space or deep space. In Gundam it is clearly no feat to construct an invincible warrior machine that can fly a million miles per hour and shoot ten million bullets a second.
But in watching Moonlight Mile and re-watching the real life attempts of NASA to create a space station, I have been brought back down to earth, where the greatest realisation for ME is to look down from upon a mountain, and that going into space really is an achievement that deserves recognition far beyond what we currently give it.
I am SEVERELY disappointed how few videos about space are available on torrent. I know that our world is a pile of concrete shit, but when the zillions of minor creative outlets hit our atmosphere I wish they were are lot more like The International Space Station, or even more like Moonlight Mile S1.
