The point is: I thought something was wrong, just for a split second.  (Split that second!)  I would never be able to do this:

Joe Kittenger, oh man, oh woman, oh human!  I could never do that--I don't have the training.  

btw, I was discussing lo these many ideas this evening--one of which is what makes a solid solid, what makes water a liquid, and why the noble gasses are all gasses.

But I think most people (these days) don't really understand--at a physical level--that they are on a spinning ball in space, travelling around the sun.

I also think that the largest thing comparable to human complexity that I have intimate knowledge of is the atmosphere--and I live at the bottom!

Did I mention that water is a liquid because hydrogen is so willing to spare that unbalanced electron, and oxygen is willing to take it...ach....chemistry...

Water (molecule) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Water is primarily a liquid under standard conditions, which is not predicted from its relationship to other analogous hydrides of the oxygen family in the periodic table, which are gases such as hydrogen sulfide. Also the elements surrounding oxygen in the periodic table, nitrogen, fluorine, phosphorus, sulfur and chlorine, all combine with hydrogen to produce gases under standard conditions. The reason that oxygen hydride (water) forms a liquid is that it is more electronegative than all of these elements (other than fluorine). Oxygen attracts electrons much more strongly than hydrogen, resulting in a net positive charge on the hydrogen atoms, and a net negative charge on the oxygen atom. The presence of a charge on each of these atoms gives each water molecule a net dipole moment. Electrical attraction between water molecules due to this dipole pulls individual molecules closer together, making it more difficult to separate the molecules and therefore raising the boiling point. This attraction is known as hydrogen bonding. Water can be described as a polar liquid that dissociates disproportionately into the hydronium ion (H3O⁺(aq)) and an associated hydroxide ion (OH⁻(aq)). Water is in dynamic equilibrium between the liquid, gas and solid states at standard temperature and pressure, and is the only pure substance found naturally on Earth to be so.

From a point far enough north, you won't see the sun, cos you're tilted so far up and the sun is so far down... you never see it!  Those who live close the equator don't see this....

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.