00:00Willst, from Mark Cameron, this is from Mark Cameron.
00:15Willst, in space, have you ever looked away from Earth into the black void?
00:21Yeah.
00:22Yeah, all the time.
00:25Yeah, because you can see the stars.
00:27Oh, yeah.
00:28And pretty much all the time you can see the stars.
00:38We were never able to see stars from the lunar surface or on the daylight side of the moon.
00:44The sky is deep black when viewed from the moon as it is when viewed from cislunar space,
00:58the space between the Earth and the moon.
01:00And we cannot see stars.
01:02It's not a black void.
01:03It's a cool thing.
01:04I mean, it's black, but there's all kinds of little polka dots.
01:06There's all the stars there.
01:07And the cool thing is, by the way, you can see it during the day.
01:09And when you're in space and you're looking into deep space and you're on the sun side of the orbit,
01:14the sunlight washes out all the starlight, so you can't see any stars, just like here on Earth.
01:18There's all the stars there.
01:19And the cool thing is, by the way, you can see it during the day.
01:25Yeah, you can.
01:26And there's more than stars.
01:27You can see planets.
01:29You can see moons.
01:30You see the gas magellanic clouds of the Milky Way galaxy.
01:35Yeah, you see the magellanic clouds.
01:40The sunlight washes out all the starlight, so you can't see any stars, just like here on Earth.
01:47Pretty much all the time, you can see the stars.
01:49Then when you look out into deep space away from the sun, it's the darkest black you can imagine.
01:54Just the inherent beauty of it, the velvet, bottomless bucket of the universe.
02:00And like, just hanging there in a vast sea of darkness, and the most frightening darkness that you could ever imagine.
02:07Pretty much all the time, you can see the stars.
02:09From Mark Cameron. This is from Mark Cameron.
02:11Whilst in space, have you ever looked away from Earth into the black void?
02:17And the most frightening darkness that you could ever imagine.
02:23Pretty much all the time, you can see the stars.
02:28The sky, of course, was black, but it had sort of a velvet sheen to it.
02:35The biggest visual surprise was just how black the sky was.
02:40You have a brilliant sun, brighter than any sun you normally would see even here in New Mexico.
02:45You have these extraordinarily high mountains.
02:49We were in a valley deeper than the Grand Canyon.
02:52But then you have this black sky, a sky blacker than black, as the old Vitican expression used to be.
02:59There's all the stars there, and the cool thing is you can see it during the day.
03:03I've often tried to explain the difference between darkness, when you turn out the lights and it's dark in here, or blackness.
03:11Blackness is the endlessness of it all. It's hard to comprehend.
03:21Pretty much all the time, you can see the stars.
03:24We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.
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