A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy which is not...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
For me science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.