When you look up at the night sky (in a place where you can see stars) I dont know about anyone else, but i've felt totally and completely overhwelmed. There are places out there that we could scarcely imagine. Places of both wondrous and terrible diversity. When I think about the great beyond, I get two feelings. First: It brings in fuzzy happy feelings, thinking of the stars and trying to imagine what worlds lie beyond our own. It brings a feeling of comfort. Who knows what kind of species and lifeforms are out there living like we are or living completely different from us. Second: I feel cold and afraid. Space is so vast and so unpredictable that we dont know what we would find out there. So far it has been only barren planets. But what kind of creatures live out there which exist solely to harm others. What kind of creatures lie in that terrible, dark place in the universe. The movie 'Event Horizon' made me think of this. The movie is about a group of people who go in search of an expensive spaceship which has the power to use black holes to travel through space. Upon finding it, they take a tour of the ship and discover the log of the previous crew. The log depicts a depraved orgy of torture and death with the crew killing one another. Eventually they dicover that the ship, when going through a black hole, took a portal to a dimension (probably Hell) and brought back an evil presence with it. What's fascinating about this movie is that it shows the idea of "science taking man beyond where he was meant to go." There are great mysteries out there in the Great Dark Beyond, but some of them are not meant for mortal eyes. Some things are best kept unfound or unknown. This is what is so scary about the place that exists beyond the boundaries of our world. While we naive human beings think that we may have some concept of what constitutes good and what constitutes evil, in reality we know as much about absolute good and evil as we know about time travel, we can scratch the surface of it, but we can never truly delve into it. Sometimes when I think of space, I also think about parallel worlds and other dimensions. Whose to say that there isnt another world, exactly like ours, where we exist and go about our daily lives, but our personalities are completely different. The real question is, if you could see beyond the boundaries of this world...if you could identify the mysteries that lie beyond, would you? Would you cross that boundary? Would you really want to see what is out there? Would you be able to come back and live your life after what you saw? Would you see something so good that it made you marvel at the wonders of creation, or so terrible that you despaired the existence of a higher being and the existence of any good at all? Our curiosity knows the answer to this question...our curiosity says that we should look into this...that what we see, whatever it may be, would be worthwhile for the process of enlightenment. I dont know...If I was given the choice I think I'd leave well enough alone because in this case I think that curiosity really may just kill the cat.