The World Is Just Awesome: Difference between revisions

** ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' climaxes with the fiery and regal birth of the planet Genesis.

** ''[[Star Trek: First Contact|Star Trek First Contact]]'': When Picard finally convinces [[Genre Blind|Lily]] that they are aboard a starship in orbit.

* ''[[Star Wars]]'': The Death Star.

** The double-sunset on Tatooine. Just... damn.

* Explored in ''[http://www.gregegan.net/PLANCK/Complete/Planck.html The Planck Dive]'', by [[Greg Egan]]. They did send a poet, and the mathematicians were thoroughly unimpressed by his complete inability to even comprehend what was going on, and adamant refusal to even make the attempt.

* The ''[[Chalion]]'' books by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] have this happen to people who've met the gods. They spend the rest of their lives trying to find a way to describe it, unsuccessfully.

* The Land from the [[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]] is nothing but this. What's even better? Everyone gets another sense to see Beauty and Health.

 

** Most of the Doctor's companions are changed by their trips with the Doctor, making repeated references to not being the same. Most notably this applies to Sarah Jane Smith, Rose Tyler, Donna Noble and Amy Pond, but the rest of them as well.

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by The Doctor a few times. In a DVD only scene with Amy Pond, he asks her if she knows "what he keeps in here", walking to the TARDIS doors. He opens them to say, "Absolutely everything.", whereupon he showed her that they were in deep space. He does this again in the Christmas Special, when, [[It Makes Sense in Context|transporting a shark to the planet's clouds]] he responds to Abigail and young Kazran calling the TARDIS amazing.

* Sarah Jane Smith continued the tradition in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. In "The Warriors of Kudlak", she found herself looking at the Earth from a spaceship in orbit:

* [[wikipedia:Brian Cox (physicist)|Professor]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12619455 Brian Cox], so much so [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhn8j7S4uKU his style of delivery has been spoofed.] (NSFW!) He could be talking about the end of the galaxy or our sun going supernova but by the time he's done talking, you'll be completely convinced that whatever he's talking about is the most heartbreakingly beautiful occurrence in existence.

* The whole point of ''[[The Amazing Race]]''. Racers tend to react like this when the race brings them in the presence of great natural beauty. Of course, there's also the subversion, usually brought on by bad interactions with locals, where racers declare that foreign cultures ''suck''.

== [[Toys]] ==

* Subversion in ''[[Bionicle]]'':

** Another subversion occurs in ''Bionicle Legends 4: Legacy of Evil'', when the Piraka have just stumbled upon the island paradise of Mata Nui:

It was disgusting. }}

 

*** Armstrong's own words, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind", brought [[Walter Cronkite]] to tears of joy and wonder -- and the rest of the world as well.

** Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, had this comparatively more laconic transmission upon his first time.

** Tom Stafford's take on the experience:

* This is pretty much the point of the Disneyland attraction "Soarin' Over California" and its cousin in EPCOT, "Soarin'."

** Epcot also has "Impressions de France", "Wonders of China", and "Oh Canada!" The first is a tour of France projected on ''five'' connected movie screens for a wrap-around effect, and the other two are full-on Circlevision 360, which is exactly what it sounds like.

** Not easy to do this unless you're a sailor, but sit out on the deck of a ship in the middle of the ocean with all external lights blacked out. Wow. Just... wow.

* Bill Hicks describes his experience of taking psilocybin mushrooms as being like this:

* 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.