Overview*

Table top view of some of the Mercury suit components including gloves, boots, and helmet; 1961 (NASA)

I don’t know to describe what this endeavor is, but when I heard this list of words, I felt its resonance. So, here is an incomplete but provocative list of descriptors.

Alien
Anomalous
Archetypal
Doomed
Extra-empirical
Esoteric
Extraordinary
Imaginal
Immaterial
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