Question:
Is it normal to cry A LOT when thinking about space?
2017-05-14 06:05:52 UTC
Space is my passion-well, obsession, really, ever since I was born. I always knew the universe was incredibly huge, but it wasn't until my early teen years when I really came to understand just how big it is. And it makes me tear up every time I even so much as think about it, or see pictures/videos of space.

I don't cry or tear up because I'm sad, or because I'm happy. In fact, I can't even tell you what I feel, because I feel like it's every single emotion I could ever feel all at once. I don't wanna be a wuss or anything, but it just seems like I'm weird because people will be like "yeah the universe is big" but I just seem to go more into it and it makes me so emotional and I can't explain why.
Eight answers:
?
2017-05-16 20:00:25 UTC
I am passionate about space too.

I think I will have a tear in my eye when Cassini takes its dive into Jupiter.
Quadrillian
2017-05-15 09:35:19 UTC
Back before Spielbergism took over the world of sci-fi, it would be considered a little "unusual" except after watching "the blob".



Nowadays the spine chilling music or other absurdly over-orchestrated sound effects that accompany spacey shows is enough to make anyone cry when they think what has become of the once respectable science known as astronomy.



One thing that the marketing spin-doctors are good at is surgically targetting people's emotional lobes with their jive. Just take a step back next time you are confronted with one of theor productions and just see how many primal nerves they touch with their greasy words and slick effects.



Cheers!
?
2017-05-14 23:21:26 UTC
a lot isn't normal.... but to be in awe once you actually grasp the size? Yeah, perfectly normal.
Gary B
2017-05-14 21:16:52 UTC
it is NOT normal, and shows a mind that is immature and incapable of separating fantasy from real;ity.



YOU need to bee seeing a psychiatrist rather than space pictures.
poornakumar b
2017-05-14 14:27:49 UTC
Most don't think about Space, a majority of them don't know Space. So you are in a happy minority. With this small number of cases it is very hard to diagnose your medical 'condition'. Probably crying A LOT when thinking about space may not be abnormal. Anyway I suggest you visit a very good Psychiatrist (and let me know the diagnosis, please !).
Araktsu
2017-05-14 08:15:56 UTC
Professional Internet troll asks readers to make an evaluation:



"Is it normal to cry A LOT when thinking about space?"

• https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20170514060552AAuamAr



No, unless it is just a coincidence.



Professional Internet troll posts vacuous claims:



"Space is my passion-well, obsession, really, ever since I was born. I always knew the universe was incredibly huge, but it wasn't until my early teen years when I really came to understand just how big it is. And it makes me tear up every time I even so much as think about it, or see pictures/videos of space. I don't cry or tear up because I'm sad, or because I'm happy. In fact, I can't even tell you what I feel, because I feel like it's every single emotion I could ever feel all at once. I don't wanna be a wuss or anything, but it just seems like I'm weird because people will be like "yeah the universe is big" but I just seem to go more into it and it makes me so emotional and I can't explain why."

• ibid



If however I am mistaken and you believe it, please consider the following.



Following was the first relatively crude experiment demonstrating that electromagnetic energy can make even dead muscles work, so long as they have not decomposed. This was long before radio was invented, even before anyone knew that electricity and magnetism were related:



"Luigi Aloisio Galvani (Latin: Aloysius Galvanus; September 9, 1737 – December 4, 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who discovered animal electricity. He is recognized as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. This was one of the first forays into the study of bioelectricity, a field that still studies the electrical patterns and signals from tissues such as the nerves and muscles."

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galv...

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Around the turn of the 20th century radio had been invented and people began similar experiments to see if radio frequency energy could also stimulate nervous tissues, including the brain. By mid-20th century it was already well established that it could and directed energy weapons were being developed as fast as those involved could manage. Great advances were made in radar by that time, also.



Proof that a human can be tracked by radar and specifically targeted by a shaped beam of electromagnetic energy:



"The ADS was deployed in 2010 with the United States military in the Afghanistan War, but was withdrawn without seeing combat. On August 20, 2010, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department announced its intent to use this technology on prisoners in the Pitchess Detention Center in Los Angeles, stating its intent to use it in "operational evaluation" in situations such as breaking up prisoner fights. The ADS is currently only a vehicle-mounted weapon, though U.S. Marines and police are both working on portable versions. ADS was developed under the sponsorship of the DoD Non-Lethal Weapons Program with the Air Force Research Laboratory as the lead agency. There are reports that Russia and China are developing their own versions of the Active Denial System."

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Den...



The video below was still online as of 23 September 2015, a demonstration by U.S. military:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzG4oEutPbA

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When you consider that a drone can be operated via radar and radio control from thousands of miles away, and a space explorer from millions of miles away, the task of tracking one human being among many may seem trivial. But it is quite sophisticated, the ease with which it seems to be accomplished having occurred only by many years of research and improvement of radar technology and the miniaturization of electronics allowing computer aided operation.

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There is an electromagnetic component to neural signal transmission. That is no secret:



“Electroencephalography (EEG) is an electrophysiological monitoring method to record electrical activity of the brain. It is typically noninvasive, with the electrodes placed along the scalp, although invasive electrodes are sometimes used in specific applications. EEG measures voltage fluctuations resulting from ionic current within the neurons of the brain. In clinical contexts, EEG refers to the recording of the brain’s spontaneous electrical activity over a period of time, as recorded from multiple electrodes placed on the scalp. Diagnostic applications generally focus on the spectral content of EEG, that is, the type of neural oscillations (popularly called “brain waves”) that can be observed in EEG signals.”

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography



It is why cochlear implants and other radio-to-brain signal devices work. For example, here is proof that radio energy can directly stimulate the brain:



"Hearing aids amplify sounds so they may be detected by damaged ears. Cochlear implants bypass damaged portions of the ear and directly stimulate the auditory nerve. Signals generated by the implant are sent by way of the auditory nerve to the brain, which recognizes the signals as sound."

• https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/cochlear-implants

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A more direct proof of radio frequency electromagnetic stimulation of the nervous systems can be demonstrated with TENS (transcutaneous electronic neural stimulation) devices for pain control. It does not contact the neurons or even bundles of nerves one by one but rather transmits a signal past the outer barrier of skin and muscles to affect the neural system in a prescribed manner. That methodology is an antenna effect rather than direct current stimulation. A similar proof can be made for electronic anesthesia.



Learning how to shape an electromagnetic beam from a distance and aiming it from an increasing distance has been accomplished long ago. Some idea of how that can be accomplished and how efficient the technology has become since, say, 1940 can be found at the article at link below, at least as of Halloween 2016 (31 October) when I last checked it.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array



Readers anywhere are usually not sufficiently educated regarding how electromagnetic energy is directed, nor how the electromagnetic component of the central nervous system works, and how the two areas of knowledge can be put together, to make a reasoned judgment on its feasibility or level of complexity. I do not intend to write a book on the subject. I am sure it would never be given attention by the vast majority of persons in the developed world who are permanently transfixed to video infotainment and otherwise short of both time and personal energy to undertake such an education.



Unfortunately adverse signals can be and have been designed. Go figure. If you need a review of how the human nervous system works, how its electromagnetic signals corresponding to brain-controlled events can be recorded, it should be little trouble to also imagine how to adapt that to radio technology. That is why the technology is referred to as a category of electronic warfare rather than a category of electronic medicine. It is vastly superior in causing distress and malfunction than in curing disease.



It is a mainstay for the psychiatric drug industry, among other military uses:



"DoD [U.S. Department of Defense] Announces New Transgender Policies; Will Pay For 'Gender-Reassignment Surgery'... Military doctors will be given new instructions pertaining to 'transition-related care,' and military medical facilities will begin offering treatment in line with the new instructions... Despite announcing a new set of policies for military doctors and medical facilities in treating transgender servicepersons, Carter said, 'the medical standards don't change' when asked about the military's provision of 'gender-reassignment surgery.' "

by Robert Kraychik, 30 June 2016, Daily Wire online

• http://www.dailywire.com/news/7105/dod-announces-new-transgender-policies-will-pay-robert-kraychik
?
2017-05-14 06:43:52 UTC
Whatever the reason, we cry when we cannot express with words, what we feel.



Try to find what you cannot express, when you are crying.
Sofia
2017-05-14 06:26:28 UTC
maybe you cry because you cannot comprehend exactly all that is out there.


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