The Incredible Melting Man

When I was a kid, I remember looking up at the moon and the stars at night.  I'd think to myself and wonder what was out there.  Were there other people on other planets, just like us, living their normal day to day lives, oblivious to other beings in the universe?  I also thought it would be really cool to travel through space, seeing the moon and those stars up close.  Now that I'm grown up, I know that my chance to be an astronaut, or even a space traveller have probably passed.  I'm glad that I came to that realization as a result, because if I would have known as a child that travelling in outer space, and especially gazing at the sun through the rings of Saturn would have turned me into an eventual pile of mush, like in William Sachs' 1977 film The Incredible Melting Man, I would have been absolutely devastated... devastated, I say.