could it be that children are so interested in the ocean, in space, because they are realms completely unconcerned with human activity, and children are not yet disconnected from that original apathy, that original disregard for human opulence and depravity? they've not breached the barrier into reality. they're not yet far enough away from the throb of the womb, the submersion of nonbeing, to be completely concerned with the real world or have gained to much distance from those greater spaces.