The Gentle Blend of Tear-Inducing Content

I think the proportion of gentleness that leads to tears is about 10 percent.
Even in high concentrations, it is probably around 20 percent at most.

Anything stronger than that feels like what you might call 'inspirational porn,' where you can sense the attitude of 'Come on, cry!', which is off-putting, and if it's too little, you don't even notice it.
That is why, for example, in a novel, a gentleness content of around 10 percent per chapter or per volume is what hits me the hardest. The back of my eyes get hot, and it's dangerous to read it in public.

This was a very dangerous book.
'Three Kilometers to the Moon' by Shin Iyohara (Shinchosha Bunko)

It is a collection of short stories where various academic fields like astronomy, geology, and meteorology are gently intertwined with stories of families that could exist anywhere.
All of them contain various high concentrations of gentleness, so I do not recommend reading them in public.
(I was reading it on the train and it was truly difficult. I hurriedly closed the book once.)

Even so, it is a book that makes me think once again that science is good and that studying science is wonderful, and in that sense, it also warmed my heart.

Science raises the resolution of the world so much and changes how we see things.
Sometimes, just that alone is enough to save you.
It makes us realize the immaturity and insignificance of humanity, and it makes people humble.
In this world, there are stories of astonishing scales just lying around as a matter of course.
How tiny the things I was worrying about really are.

Of course, science doesn't solve everything (the book depicts various aspects of that lack of success as well), but it still gives us hints on how to think and the foundations for how to approach things.
Having it makes a world of difference compared to not having it.


In other words, what I want to say is, after all,please fund basic researchand that I will probably think of that parent and child every time I look at the moon from now on.
(After all, there is also the fact that because the moon exists, the Earth can remain the Earth.)