It has a national park that’s bigger than maine. Or Switzerland. A park.
I lived in Alaska for two years and I will never get over the sheer overwhelming bigness of it.
Nights where the sky is clear you can see clusters of stars or the Northern Lights dancing. When the lights are rippling especially strong and fast you can hear a static crackle in the air. When the moon is out after it’s snowed, you don’t need flashlights to see. Everything glows and glimmers like polished quartz.
But when the sky is clouded over so you can’t see the stars, you can kind of almost sense the mountains towering over you and helping to block out the light, these giant monoliths acting like this void darker than your soul. I’ve never experience night like Alaska night.
Everything is big, the mountains, the sky, the valleys.
One of the funniest failures of US school system is the fact they are legally obligated to teach us all the states but they never actually show how big Alaska is like I have actually had teachers tell me that Texas is the biggest state. We have all just convinced ourselves that Alaska is that small shrunken down thing on most US maps and the people that know it’s the largest state can almost never accurately describe how large it is.
For context here is a picture
what
And the dark.
what the fuck
It’s my state! Here are two pictures I took of it. It’s the biggest state and it’s gorgeous and so many people have so many wrong ideas about the state.
Klingon ambassador: “We have noticed your Starfleet has no officers who are Qongbogh chalDaq tlha’ Dat loD. Why would you not recruit such fine and obviously powerful members of your population?”
Terran ambassador: “I’m sorry, what? The translator isn’t catching that phrase.”
Klingon ambassador: “Your Qongbogh chalDaq tlha’ Dat loD. You know, the ones who change with your lunar cycles.”
Terran ambassador’s assistant: “Qongbogh chalDaq tlha’ Dat loD? The…wolf men?”
Vulcans: Our scientists have questions about the small nocturnal portion of your population that drinks blood and appears virtually immortal. Is there a name for this sub-species?
