• kryptonicus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It really isn’t hard to imagine how much Lovecraftian dread pre-scientific man would have experienced when looking up at something like this.

    And it’s an amazing testament to the human appreciation for beauty that we can still experience a similar sense of awe and wonder, even though we know the naturalistic explanation for the phenomenon.