Damn I remember back in 2018 I used to watch your videos religiously and then I enrolled into a maths degree inspired by you. Now I have my degree and will soon be doing masters in maths. The nostalgia is epic when watching the videos 🥺😭

a vihart video… i was so young the last time i was here i will watch with my whole heart, eyes, ears, and mind

My grandma told my mom a story of her experienced a total eclipse as a child. She was young back in Europe, she was in the middle of a farm field with a few cows, alone. Suddenly everything went black in the middle of the day as it became total. She thought the world was ending, and so did everybody else around

We truly live a special existence. The moon and sun being the same size from the perspective of earth, allowing for the moon to perfectly cover the sun, is truly stunning.

This video is an actual work of art

Beautiful. Thank you. I will be watching with my small boy’s imagination and open soul . I am 74.

The paper folding over itself was ingenious!

Even if Luna is sometimes an eldritch horror now, I am glad that your experience of it resulted in this lovely essay. Thank you for sharing this. "It is a corpse, a dead thing, the dusty remains of Old Theia, horrifically attached to its sister planet by a withering gravitational umbelical cord." It's not what I expected to have running through my mind as I watch the unlight creep across the continent today, but I'll smile whenever it pops up in my network of mental associations. I've never regretted subscribing to this channel; never finished a video thinking that I might have done something better with the minutes spent here. You're a good human; I'm glad to share time and a planet, and the occasional moonshadow-show, with you somewhere on it.

so much eclipse media is written in the pop-scientific voice. it is rationalized and detached from the sensory, from the emotional, from the mystic. that scientific voice has its place but, storytelling is important too. poetry is important. and you have used those arts wonderfully, to capture the feeling of this for people like me, who cannot see a total eclipse. i've often felt that good poetry and storytelling can more accurately preserve the feeling of moments then photography can. i'm autistic, and struggle with chronic pain and fatigue. both of those things make travel really hard for me, and on top of that, me and my partner just could not justify spending thousands of dollars traveling across the continent to book a hotel in either (1) one of the states with good chances for clear skies (most of which seem dangerous for trans people right now) or (2) risk it with the more northerly states and have a significant chance of getting clouded out, making all the stress and fatigue and pain and expense of travel feel somewhat wasted. and so i've kinda accepted the fact that i'm probably never going to see a total eclipse, and it can be sorta... demoralizing, in this Endless Hype Cycle of media, to accept that. it feels like everybody wants to sell you on Experiences, on spending money to travel vast distances to see the Big Deal Ultra Rare Celestial Event That Might Only Happen Once or Twice in Your Life. but as i've spent more time in this world though, i've come to appreciate the mundane and ubiquitous just as much as, or perhaps more than, the rare and spectacular. i have been reduced to laying in the grass staring up at a sunset in awe of intense colors and shapes i cannot even name. i have taught myself botany and every new plant i meet is like a little miracle who captures my imagination. ephemeral and local experiences like eating bigleaf maple flowers or visiting certain parks at certain times of year, these things that are free and here now, if only one pays attention to them, simple things like being woken up by robins before the sunrises, they define me and ground me and root me in a place and time. i am in love with the whole world. when i was very young i had a science book that referenced the total eclipse of 2017 in the future, an event that was almost 10 years away for me at the time. i deeply wanted to witness it. i was Going to see it, i decided. in the meantime, i saw partial eclipses in i think 2012 or 2014. I adored them but it seemed like nobody around me really *cared* about the partial eclipse. i was the only one in my large family who bothered even going into the backyard to see it. i was fascinated by the leaves projecting pinhole camera eclipses onto the walls, the strange colour of the daylight. in august 2017 i was in college, and had to work to cover rent. my work had scheduled a mandatory training meeting the day of the eclipse. so this thing i had wanted to see for nearly a decade was taken from me. my family got to go travel to see the total eclipse and had a great time but i was stuck in a classroom being taught about using zoom to do online tutoring sessions with students (a skill i never even used). i was heartbroken. kinda mad. but at least they let us go outside for a short period of time during the partial eclipse. i loved looking at those feathery crescents from the leaves, the wind and trees whispering secrets about the eclipse the eye could not see. in 2023 we didn't manage to travel to the zone of annularity. but once again, the much more common and accessible partial eclipse was there to comfort me. and i was not disappointed. even though the sun was only reduced to a thick crescent, it was a sublime experience to explore my neighborhood as it went through the altered state of being eclipsed. the peculiarity of the feathery eclipse-shadows and the color of the sunlight, the way the birds became frantic, the strange sense of seeing the normally invisible moon made manifest in the sky, the sense of togetherness with my friends, talking to our fellow neighborhood people. it was a day on which we *went out to play*. if i had traveled to the zone of annularity i would have been in an unfamiliar and stressful place. routine and comfort and familiarity are so important for me as an autistic, a sense of place is so important to me. if i had been in another state i would have missed how my Place experienced a partial eclipse. i think i'm a "partial eclipse person". having seen four of them, they've always kind of been there for me. a lesson in subtleties, in meeting your circumstances where they're at. like we mentioned, the political situation and finances and my personal health has made traveling to see this total eclipse not really an option. and unfortunately it's very rainy today so we probably won't get to see the partial eclipse either. but that's okay. because you released this wonderful work of storytelling, and that's practically as good. these days, we appreciate good storytelling just as much as we appreciate being in the story for ourselves. thank you thank you.

I'm watching this sitting in a little nowhere town in rural Arkansas, having picked out a secluded spot on the back roads where I won't be in anybody's way, surrounded by farm fields. In 2017 I planned more and I still got overtaken by clouds. This year I feel like I planned less but everything is coming together for a beautiful, solitary, transformative experience. The sky has just whispers of cirrus. Happy viewing everybody.

This does a good job of capturing it. I saw the totality today. I figured it would be cool...I've seen a handful of partials and I absolutely love the eerie, dim quality the light takes on. But the totality? Wow. I was not expecting the raw flood of primal awe at the spectacle. I was a tornado chaser in my past, and this experience beats all of the tornaodes I ever saw in terms of how incredible it felt. I see why people travel thousands of miles for that experience. I see why entire mythologies are inspired by it. Edit: Also, my nephew kept asking if it was a black hole!

I saw it today. You were right about the cold. The sun is the source of all warmth and light --- how fragile our planet is that it can become that cold within barely an hour of its diminishment. You were right about the sharpness. Everything was brighter and the shadows were deeper, it was like the light before the sunset. But the dimming was nothing like the sunset. Not warm toned, but a greying. Not like cloud cover, just a uniform darkness. There was a sunset all around me at totality. It wasn't black, but it was blue like twilight. It was a shining ring in the sky. It was beautiful, it was a goddess, it was an eye in the heavens, it was a diamond ring in the sky and then it returned. I will never forget today

The path of totality goes right through my home today, and I'm living halfway around the world where nothing will seem remotely out of the ordinary. The sun has risen and will soon set without fanfare. I teared up a little at this video. Missing my home, missing being with my family in the driveway trying to catch a glimpse of something from the edges of the outer path in 2017, but mostly just taking in the quiet awe of your story set against so many lovely attempts to capture through art something you know is inimitable. One human to another, thank you for this.

Thank you for this wonderfully human story. Something about the one tent and car really got to me. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm disabled and suffer from extreme chronic pain, so I wasn't able to travel the last bit from SE Michigan to Ohio to see totality. I'd been looking forward to it for years, after being in the 1979 Oregon eclipse as a kid. But, sadly, it was not meant to be. I got to see as much as I could after my nurse helped me to get outside in my wheelchair and for that, I'm thankful. I gave away my extra glasses to people passing by who exhibited varying levels of apathy, and each person went from "whatever" to "omg, it's so beautiful". So in a way, I'm glad I got to help a handful of people experience something special. I was the one tent helping others pitch there's, if only for a moment. Take care, and thanks again. 😎🤘☮️

In 2017, I was at my in-laws house in the path of totality. It was an impossibility clear day. We'd traveled over three hours to be there. There were people loaded up in boats on the lake behind their house. We could hear them laugh. Burgers had been grilled. We all stood, glasses on, on my in-laws' impossibly pale concrete patio. As the moon moved, the small spread out crowd got louder and louder. We were cheering up until totality. All of us gasped and were rendered silent as the sun disappeared. It was so dark and quiet. Even the birds stopped singing. It was unreal. It was uncanny. It was otherworldly. I can't imagine what it would have been like for folks who could not predict and plan. I understand why so many people throughout history have worshiped the sun. And now I sit in my home without glasses. Away from the path of totality. It's raining.

Moon Spoon left me feeling so deeply aching for what's to come! And now my yearning has been sated

You were the first person that inspired me to love math in the 5th grade. Now I've graduated college. You changed my life

"The sun is not yellow, it's chicken", Bob Dylan in "Tombstone Blues". Long ago I witnessed a solar eclipse while sitting on the top of a hill., I saw a shadow rolling towards me from behind the horizon. The nature around me went to sleep, cows came to their stable, a flock of birds went to rest on electricity cables, total silence . . . Then, light reappeared, like a lamp turned on by a light-dimmer, an artificial morning arrived, everything woke up again (a little confused). It was as if Time had made a mistake by making it night in the middle of the day and had hurriedly tried to correct it's mistake. Very impressive, I'll remember these few minutes for the rest of my days.

This might be my favorite video of yours yet. I genuinely do not know how you manage to so consistently turn the traditionally cold, logical, and hyper-analytical sciences into some of the best art I've ever seen. Thank you for still making these videos :)

Thank you for being our solar eclipse. You've gone on with your life, committed to nothing more than the annual "π sucks, τ rules" video, and every once in a while you pop in to let us know what impacts you, make art about the math, science, physics of it all, then move on to the rest of your life. I love your vids, and as long as you seem to like making them, I will look forward to them.

Nobody draws triangle people, stick figures and smiley faces better than Vi

Hello Vi, longtime fan here. I'm left stunned by your perfect words for the totality of 2017. For the split second that I saw the full eclipse through the clouds, it really did seem like a New Thing, something greater than the sum of its parts. Thanks for your recent videos about the enchantment of the world. I'm one of those troglodytes who never bought into reductionistic materialism, and it's good to see other people who study the world start quietly rebelling against the notion that the world is soulless.

Something about this, the poetic attachment to the sun, had me in tears. Thank you.

Your experience of the 2017 eclipse is similar to my own. “I know what an eclipse looks like. Yeah, I’ll go see it. Totality can be seen not far from my home and I’ve got friends there.” I was also unprepared for the impact that would have on me. There’s some music I can point to that can describe my reaction but I have yet to read the words that can nor can I come up with them myself.

i lost a noticeable amount of eyesight to the eclipse in 2017, so i wont be looking at this one, but youre so completely right that once you look at totality, you just can't look away. it's crazy

Eloquently said, Vi. It's not an easy thing to be poetic and artful about an astronomical event and not fall into the pit of religious imagery. I'm glad you did such a good job at it.

Science is love and wonder for the world and trying to understand it better. Poetry is trying to put that love and wonder in words. This stays my favorite channel ever. It's wonderful, and I love it.

And just like that, my disappointment from being in a location where the eclipse is just a tiny nibble has turned to gratitude that I’ll be spared the deep horror of witnessing totality. 😱🙏 (Though I HAVE seen a total eclipse, twice, and maybe 🤔 that explains some things) But any day in which a video from you appears IS a special day.

I used to watch ViHart 13 years ago when I was still in middle school. I'm so glad she's still making videos. This one was beautiful.

Vihart returns! Hurrah! I'm so glad you have shared your personal experience in this way. I often think of it as the Earth holding a dramatic photoshoot for it's pet rock. 😋

Commenting 5 hours before i see my first eclipse- and ngl, this video made me tear up a bit. I dunno if it's the anticipation of actually seeing one or your words describing it, but thanks nonetheless for uploading!

I will take this substitute eclipse illustrations bc even though I'm in the path of totality, it's VERY cloudy today. Happy Eclipse day!

It's crazy to me that Vihart has to pretty much reach to divine and supernatural language to describe totality. I'm really sorry I'll be missing it, I couldn't make the trip. I've got to see it in 2045.

im crying watching this video. thank you for explaining things in words i understand but could never form myself. this is beautiful

Wow. A supremely crafted narrative, up to and including the last sentence.

Wow, i was just doodling pictures of the sun and moon, in my planner! Same thing, smilie faces and all- oh and vihart! Love your unique input and memory of 2017 here today!!! Thank you! 😎🌞🌙

As someone who has avidly watched your videos since I was a child in 2011, this upload was such a nice surprise birthday gift 🌘 Thanks for always sharing your thoughts with us, Vihart!

Watched yesterday with a group of middle schoolers in cloudy Texas. The clouds broke up just as Totality began. Incredible.

Thank you for doing the thing that you do

What I remember most from seeing the eclipse was all the animals in the city going ballistic right as it got dark, which like you mentioned happened a lot more suddenly than you'd expect. All the dogs were barking, birds were flying around. And once the total eclipse passed, they all calmed down after a few seconds.

Yayyyy notification Vi posts a video, and I drop everything to watch!

this is beautiful, thank you for making this video

I always love hearing your perspective on things. There really isn't anything like it on this platform.

"one tent, and one car in the parking lot." i got chills!! you have such a way with words ❤️

SUN IS SECRET CAT 😸 It was very satisfying to watch all these arty iterations of occlusion, well done ☀️🌚

Seeing the total eclipse for the first time in totality today and I can’t wait. This video makes me so excited to see the wonders of totality.

I don’t know what it means that your description of the horror makes me viscerally want to behold it. I think it comes from wanted to be dwarfed by something you cannot possibly comprehend with your conscious mind, regardless of any knowledge you may have had prior on the concept. To witness something incomprehensible- to know the meaning of horrifically beautiful- is awe inspiring in a way that cannot be communicated. I’ve always wanted to see on, just for the sky darkening, in hopes I could witness it somewhere where the stars would be visible in the blackened sky despite it being daytime. I had no idea that there was /more/ to it, and now I want this experience for a different reason. Thank you for writing this poetry; you really do a great job conveying what you felt in a way that makes me feel it too, and that is incredible.

Your uploads are always a treat, thank you so much! This one especially, as I'm in europe and have been teased with two fantastic american eclipses and no chance to see one myself. But this was by far the most emotionally genuine and relatable coverage of a solar eclipse and made me very excited for upcoming eclipses to which I might be able to travel to :)

I watched a total solar eclipse in August 1999 in Europe. It was breathtaking, spiritual, mystical, sciency, mind boggling and absolutely unforgettable. Which is why I watched all of them Thanks to NASA today😊. Thank you for deepening the experience!

Thank you. I'm crying tears of gratitude for our sun. I wasn't expecting that, but I'm glad for it. Maybe I needed something in opposition to the sun to appreciate it. Yay for numinous experiences for unreligious folk like me!

I love it when people describe their experience of something quantifiable in terms that are heavily laced with qualia and subjectivity. You described your feelings of the eclipse the way a novelist or a poet might. Thanks for yet another beautiful video, Vihart! I'm glad you're still sharing your thoughts on UKposts.

I’ve been watching you since the hexflexagon video. I still don’t understand any of the math bits but I like watching your doodles and listening to you talk.

What a lovely piece. This may be my favourite of all your videos. Since I live in the UK, I will have to watch this event on the NASA stream. Take care all, and use your Eclipse glasses.

Love this video. Such good writing. My experience of this April 8th, 2024 eclipse was weird, being in NW Spain, all the way over the Atlantic Ocean, during dusk. I don't know what I expected, but I certainly didn't want to miss it. It was a very weird feeling. We got 3% parcial at sundown. The clouds got weird shadows and the sky turned vanilla-brown instead of red and then dark grey brown to dark grey blue. We reached totality at the end of the Blue Hour. The weird shining in the west disappeared for a few moments, and it was a starry field in pitch black. And just after totality we got a bit of twilight and then true night.

I witnessed a total eclipse last year in Exmouth WA, the only place in Australia the path of totality crossed.

The only total solar eclipse I've seen was the 2018 one, and I also came in sure that it would be this neat little novelty that I could say I'd done, like when I saw the most recent transit of Venus. Cool! Space things! I love space things! It was so much more than that. It's not a novelty, it's existential. It's surreal. It's beautiful and horrifying and wonderful. It's eldrich. Thanks for sharing your experience. I love, love, love hearing people talk about it and wish I could have gone to see this one too.

It’s crazy how much I love your story telling. This one hit me different. I went ahead and made my way to see the eclipse this time around, and the story you described about seeing the solar eclipse with your own eyes is really true. It truly carries the weight that the word “celestial” provides. It’s more like what I imagined looking at the corona of a dark hole would look like, it really was beautiful. What an odd spectacle that photographs can’t visualize

This is the kind of story we need more of in the world, helping us appreciate the wonders of our existence and share that appreciation with others. It's only by connecting with each other and valuing each individual's human experience that we'll be able to improve our world for everyone.

I never got the hype around eclipses, but this video connected with some unspoken feeling in me. Your perspective on things is always eye opening to hear, thank you

This is why I love your videos. You can take anything, any subject or story or iota, and create the most captivating and moving experiences. All with a notebook, some sharpies, and sometimes more craft materials. It's so raw and refined at the same time. It's so human and, dare I say, divine? Not divine as in some incomprehensible being, but an innate connection to others that is overlooked and taken for granted.

Thank you!! (watching this, whilst my family is driving through Quebec, to have the amazing opportunity to see a total solar eclipse)

I saw totality this time! It was such a beautiful experience and I was so lucky to see it and get good pictures. Even more lucky to live right in the totality path!

I remember the last one, with its chill and the totality. I had a class that day, and our whole school gathered on the field to watch. I never felt any fear or anything but a sense of wonder and a vague dissatisfaction that I couldn't just stay out there with the returning warmth. If I were to put it poetically, I would say it felt like witnessing the bittersweet reunion of Apollo and Artemis, a hug as Apollo, just for a moment, gave all his attention and warmth to sister he doesn't get to see near often enough. Today, I didn't have near the same experience. I had had class not 15 minutes before, a weed wacker was being used nearby, I didn't have glasses or gear, and I ended up probably nearly blinding myself trying to cheat using reflections. A nice lady gave me the sheets of paper she was using, and I got to its beauty again. It wasn't anywhere near the first experience, I got some sad news earlier that day, so the bittersweet and magnificent was simply somber and passing. It felt simultaneously exhilarating and like a heavy weight on my chest. I couldn't do much than smile like an idiot and move on. I wasn't excited about this one because I wasn't in totality, but as it happened, I realized the weight of this event. It doesn't really mean much in the end as most things don't, but it's a physical piece of evidence of the scale the universe works at. And that scale, despite making me feel small, also makes me feel important because without us to see these events, they would mean nothing.

Vi, i dont even remember how long ive known your channel. It just be over 10 years by now. I ALWAYS have the same feeling with your videos. They feel cozy and safe. You have such a unique way of telling a story and I adore it. Thank you so much for your contribution to our lil planet

This was an amazing video. I creep in your channel every once in a while since I discovered your channel when I was a teen many years ago, and I loved finding a fresh 2w episode today. Thanks Vihart, this was deeper than I expected

your poetry is always so… emotional and touches on something uniquely human, but also something that ties us to the universe so innately

This is what UKposts was made for. Thank you for sharing this.

I'm so glad you upload regularly, you have such a unique perspective on things I literally do not see anywhere else, and it is refreshing.

6:19 what I'd seen in pictures was not an exaggeration but a failure to capture the extent of this thing Exactly! I've seen couple of total solar eclipses and have detailed photograph of one of them, when I was on the ground and not a plane. And got an opportunity to make an HDR image of this phenomenon. And yet.... This is merely a ghost of the real thing. No single display can represent this tremendous difference in brightness between the inner and outer corona and at the same time show thery thin and intricate details due to presence of the magnetic fields around the Sun... So yeah, one must definitely see this!

On this day when others can viscerally witness the effects of our tiny impudent moon, I am left standing amazed while Vi Hart waxes darkly philosophic.

I got so excited when I saw this thumbnail pop un in my feed today!!! Vihart, seeing your videos in elementary school introduced me the amazing world of science that I still love dearly today. Now I’m a high school senior preparing for a bachelor’s in physics, but I still think about how much I was inspired by your channel as a kid. I love your videos and I come back to them every so often because they’re just that good. This video was amazingly poetic and beautiful retelling of the eclipse from your POV and I’m so excited to see more in the future🫶🏽🫶🏽

Hi from the path of totality! Bloomington, IN has half a million friends craning their necks at the sky today, but it's still magical sharing this experience with a crowd

I live in the path of totality for today’s and I watched from the parking lot. I knew most of what to expect- my science UKposts channels have been talking about it for two weeks after all. But it was so much more beautiful than they could ever describe. I hadn’t realized you can see the corona sans glasses. How delicate it is. Impossible to photograph. There was a tiny dot of red in the lower right of it. A tiny speck of color on a haloed void.

That was wonderfully put, and I'm so glad you got to experience this. I did too, driving from Montana to Maine just to see it, on a hill at the intersection of two rural farmfield roads, with maybe 20 or 30 other enthusiasts who had also thought that would be a really good hill to watch it from. I tried my best in the lead-up to the eclipse to inform everyone and anyone I could who was going to see it that it was safe to look at totality without the glasses on, that you NEEDED to to actually see it, to prevent the missed opportunity that almost befell you. Thank you for adding another moving perspective to what was already an amazing eclipse experience.

what crazy nostalgia you gave me! happy you were part of my childhood even in a small way 🖤 happy solar eclipse everyone!

Oh Vi, thank you for making this video. You described it in a way only you are capable of. So glad that you got to see it.

Never stop. The world needs this kind of point of view. Science and art

I'm literally crying!!! Tears rolling down my cheeks 😭😭😭 damnnn this moon/sun/eclipse poetry hit me hard!! I love your videos as always!!💕💕💕☀️

My favourite video poet with a new poem thank you!

Your videos always make me feel something about the world, the intricacies and odd things about everyone living and breathing in this world, so separated yet all connected. You stopped posting for years after I subscribed to you and i worried that i’d never experience that again but i’m glad that you’re back

I just experienced this eclipse differently than how I had planned, in my home 100 miles from totality, recovering from an illness. Thank you for this piece of art about it.

Being the last person to stop looking up was how my eclipse day was too! Haha

You write these masterpieces of poetry. Thank you for sharing them with us -- Cheers.

I fell in love with the colors within the corona… So many brilliant electric looking colors!

One time I had a solar eclipse 6 and a half years ago. It felt orange? I didn’t take the glasses off but I saw the orange sun looking like it was being eaten by another circle.

What an amazingly poetic description of the event! Thanks for sharing Vi!

I vividly remember staying up late night on the other side of the world to watch the 2017 eclipse live broadcast on UKposts. I was in awe that something like this even existed, and I had decided I'd make it to a total solar eclipse. And it happened... yesterday. On a small strip of land between an unremarkable road and a calm lake, a little east of Carbondale IL, amongst 500 or so other watchers, the sun disappeared, and in its place was a huge emptiness with a far-reaching, bright, radiating aura - a chilling reminder of your infinitesimally small role in the universe, and a deep appreciation of the grandeur of everything around. I watched people cheer and awe. I was out of words. Pictures don't do justice to that thing in the sky. It's dominating, and it's beautiful. It's an unforgettable experience I'm going to carry with me all through my life. Your video perfectly illustrates the feelings I went through. Thank you so much!

You perfectly captured the feeling of first experiencing the corona of the sun for the first time.

I wish I had heard this before the eclipse because I might’ve dropped everything to see it. What an incredibly moving picture you’ve painted. Thank you. Even if I had seen it your described experience is its own unique thing and I loved hearing it.

You once again mesmerised me just by saying what’s on your mind. Felt like poetry

The total eclipse cannot be captured in a photograph but you dam near captured it in words. Wonderfully written!

People created really emotive videos in 2017, but this one beats real footage, thank you.

Incredible. This is very different frop my experience with eclipses, i've felt a sense of calm and serenity like no other when i saw one for the first time. But the storytelling is so good, the feelings so real and the words so well chosen... So rarely have i felt the experience of someone to this degree purely through their words (and cookie crumbs) Vihart still showing everybody how things are done, even today

Having just seen a total solar eclipse for the first time yesterday... This video comes closer than anything I've seen to capturing it. Thank you for this.

Your drawings are so cute and creative and this is SUCH a great piece. The "black" in the clean part of your screen and then MS Painting the corona into the "stars" of dust, I was both dying laughing and amazed. Your writing is enthralling. I'm so happy you got to experience it, it's such an amazing experience. The black hole punched into the sky surrounded by a ghostly white halo is truly something to behold. Civilizations ignorant to what was happening must have been absolutely terrified.

Thank you for normalizing the peace and tranquility of safe sun gazing after the eclipse. I felt so much gratitude for the return of our complete, little star.

Thank you. What a wonderful, poetic transcription you’ve made of what I long to experience. You’ve done for the eclipse what you’ve done for π (and τ) and 12-tone music. Thank you.

That was a perfect description of the emotional effect of witnessing it in person with your own eyes. Including how quickly everything goes back to normal afterwards.

ooohhh, I love the use of a dusty computer screen as Space!!

thank you for describing so visually for us. this is an incredible reference. i appreciate it!