The World Is Just Awesome: Difference between revisions

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* The comic ''[[52]]'' has a "the Multiverse is just awesome!" scene. "Welcome home."

* A lot of the surrealism in ''[[The Sandman]]'' can be like this. A little girl becoming a bird, any scene where we are shown the castle of the Dreaming or in a dark version the palace of Lucifer, all the Gods visiting Morpheus in Season of Mists, Morpheus' hair and Delirium shaping little soap bubbles into a multitude of signs and figures in Brief Lives.

* In a ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars: Empire]]'' comic, a number of Rebels [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire26/blz02.jpg land on a new world]. A rather young Luke Skywalker [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire26/blz05.jpg has some time to kill], and he spends it running around exploring and [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire27/lukeisaprettygirl.jpg looking at things] until he finds some [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire26/blz07.jpg graves].

* In a ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars: Empire]]'' comic, a number of Rebels [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire26/blz02.jpg land on a new world]{{Dead link}}. A rather young Luke Skywalker [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire26/blz05.jpg has some time to kill]{{Dead link}}, and he spends it running around exploring and [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire27/lukeisaprettygirl.jpg looking at things]{{Dead link}} until he finds some [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire26/blz07.jpg graves]{{Dead link}}.

* ''[[Elf Quest]]'' somewhat subverts this: the character Skywise has spent his entire life obsessing over the stars, and ''finally'' gets a chance to fly a spaceship. He makes the walls of the ship translucent to show everyone the beauty of space, only to find that his best friend Cutter (the comic's main character, who suffers from fear of heights) just wants to close his eyes and get back to earth.

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* [http://xkcd.com/442/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' comic

** And the following [[Memetic Mutation|meta video]] of that comic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQAk_T9SBbw here]

* [[Sinfest]] offers up quite a few of these. [~~http~~://~~www~~.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4009 Usually] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209171110/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2763 in] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209182735/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2700 the] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209180112/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3099 Sunday] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209183658/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4030 strips].

* [[Sinfest]] offers up quite a few of these. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209185421/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4009 Usually] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209171110/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2763 in] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209182735/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2700 the] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209180112/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3099 Sunday] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209183658/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4030 strips].

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{{quote|From 'Rant in E Minor': I lay in a field of green grass for four hours going "My god ...I love EVERYTHING!"}}

* Anyone who has ever climbed a mountain will know exactly how amazing that the world can be. To think that millions of years of pressure have been pushing small, insignificant pieces of rock together, moving so slowly it can't even be seen, until one day, you look at it, and the result is a range of mountains that can cover entire expanses of countries, and literally pierce the clouds, makes a person really appreciate just how ''powerful'' and how magnificently ''old'' our planet is.

** Likewise, going in the opposite direction, caves. In particular, [http://www.jdonohue.com/parks/photo/mediumSize/CarlsbadCaverns.jpg Carlsbad] [http://www.worldbestspot.com/Spotimage/cavernas%20carlsbad.jpg Caverns]. Drip by drip, over millions of years, the magnificent structures of this cave were built. In pictures, it's difficult to adequately show the scale and sheer majesty of the caves and its chambers. One of the most famous structures is the [http://www.nps.gov/cave/photosmultimedia/upload/br_roa_jones.jpg Rock of Ages], housed in the adequately named "Big Room," which is one of the largest cave chambers in the world, with a floor size of over 350,000 square feet.

** Likewise, going in the opposite direction, caves. In particular, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140319235402/http://www.jdonohue.com/parks/photo/mediumSize/CarlsbadCaverns.jpg Carlsbad] [http://www.worldbestspot.com/Spotimage/cavernas%20carlsbad.jpg Caverns]. Drip by drip, over millions of years, the magnificent structures of this cave were built. In pictures, it's difficult to adequately show the scale and sheer majesty of the caves and its chambers. One of the most famous structures is the [http://www.nps.gov/cave/photosmultimedia/upload/br_roa_jones.jpg Rock of Ages], housed in the adequately named "Big Room," which is one of the largest cave chambers in the world, with a floor size of over 350,000 square feet.

* Most everyone who's heard of Stone Henge has seen pictures of it. Those hardly do the monument justice, but you are unlikely to think more than "Hey, this is cool," when simply looking at it. That feeling comes from actually ''touching'' the stones. While it's now prohibited to touch the stones in the actual henge, there are a few of them across the road that are readily available for this purpose. While I'm unsure of how intense The World Is Just Awesome feeling is for people who merely lay their hands on the stone, I know from personal experience that giving it a hug lets you for a moment feel the power of the world around you. Words can't describe the feeling with any sort of accuracy.

* One cannot fully appreciate the size and beauty of the California Redwood until they stand under one and look up.