The description of the poor little critter slowly dieing as it tried to find breathable water made me really angry at the universe. Death is such a horrible thing.
Maybe I shouldn't feel empathy for a nonsentient bug, but similar things happen to thousands of humans every day...
If you think that's bad, imagine my despair when realizing that things like the CIA torturing someone through sensory deprivation for 1000 days (this actually happened in the 60s) is an irrevocable component of our universe because that's how the atoms go. Such thoughts made me sink into a nearly irreversible suicidal existential depression! This place is rough.
"Life is hilariously cruel." Very, very heavy on the cruel.
And scientists may be as well. They could be telling me about amazing things of the universe and instead there is a story about the last moments of an animal suffering as it slowly suffocates.
Maybe I shouldn't feel empathy for a nonsentient bug, but similar things happen to thousands of humans every day...
We shall have to work faster.