Outer space is fascinating. It’s one of those concepts that sounds insane for it to even exist–like it’s just this fun story to tell kids and make sweet dioramas about but not a real thing. Kind of like dinosaurs. (Those things were REAL you guys. I can’t be the only one who thinks that is strange.)

This is mostly because of my own self-absorbed hyper focus on what is happening in my tiny corner of one tiny continent on one tiny planet in the universe. I rarely think about space.

But it’s there. Things exist outside our planet. It’s hard to believe sometimes those planets and stars and various arrays of space-rocks in the photos are actually real and that people have seen them. You guys, people have WALKED on the MOON. Why are we not more impressed by this on a daily basis? We should just walk around going “YOU GUYS THERE IS AN AMERICAN FLAG ON A BALL OF ROCK FLOATING IN THE BLACK NOTHINGNESS MILLIONS OF MILES FROM OUR PLANET” like all the time.

I mean people voluntarily LEAVE our PLANET and just float around amid balls of gas and nothingness…for science! And that’s really it. No other reason than just to know things. Space is awesome.

All that to say, if you haven’t heard, there is a fellow out on the International Space Station right now* who has been filming the greatest youtube videos of all time. His name is Chris Hadfield. He’s Canadian (what up) and is doing all sorts of fun show-and-tell videos about what it’s like to live in space.

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