There is a door on the vessel that should open onto a corridor and opens instead onto open sky — no floor, nothing between you and the whole blue drop. This is the threshold every tradition on Earth has drawn and almost nobody has walked through. You are looking at it from the inside now. The door asks only the oldest question, the one the whole ascent is built around: do you find Earth boring enough, yet, to step.
the door does not push you and it does not beg you. it just stays open. that is the scariest possible design.
every religion drew this door. these people built it and put a webcam on it. i am unwell.
i was going to leave a skeptical comment and then i looked at the drop for too long