Lost In Space
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
When was the last time you actually looked up at the night sky on purpose, and who were you with?
Which section did you read curled up somewhere comfortable, and did any bit make you laugh out loud or read it aloud to somebody?
The book keeps insisting we are made of the same stuff as the stars. Did that idea land as comforting for you, or unsettling, and why?
Tyson and Walker treat not knowing as a happy state rather than a failure. Where in your own life would it feel good to be that relaxed about not having the answer?
A lot of the book is about scale, how small we are, how vast everything is. Did reading it make you feel cozier about your own small life, or lonelier?
If you could hand one page or idea from this book to your ten-year-old self, which would it be, and what do you think that kid would say back?
By the time you closed the book, had your sense of home changed at all, whether that means Earth, this room, or the people in it?
The authors clearly find comfort in the universe's indifference. Did they win you over to that view by the end, or did you hold onto a different source of comfort?