In a few years, the International Space Station will be the ultimate lost civilization.

Sometime after 2030, a SpaceX ship will pull the ISS into Earth’s atmosphere, where heat and friction will break it apart. A space station the size of a football field, where spacefarers from 22 countries lived and worked for (by the time it’s all over) about 30 years, will be effectively erased from existence.

A lot of human culture is wrapped up in the things we make and use, and in how we interact with our environments. And once the ISS burns up in the upper atmosphere, the physical evidence of its spacefaring culture will just be gone.

Archaeologists, led by Flinders University archaeologist Alice Gorman and Chapman University archaeologist Justin Walsh, are trying to study the soon-to-be-lost culture of the ISS and its crews before it’s gone. In a recent study, Gorman, Walsh, and their colleagues asked astronauts to take regular photographs of six square sections of walls and surfaces aboard ISS, revealing clues about how people on the station used their space and adapted to the weird environment of an orbiting space station. The result is simultaneously a record of a place and culture that will soon vanish and a source valuable data to help engineers design future space stations.

The researchers published their work in the journal PLOS ONE.

The cringe factor isn’t an issue — not at first, anyway. Instead, when you attend D23, and you’re not a Disney loyalist, the thing that creeps up on you is the fact you’re swimming in cognitive dissonance. Yes, I consume Disney products, and I like a fair amount of them. I’ll even go to the freaking mat for certain shows that Disney funds. But, I am not a Disney fan because Disney is a corporation, not a thing that makes art.

And yet, at D23 it seems that that line has been blurred. And therein lies the dark secret. There are no conventions for people who are fans of Starbucks or say, another movie studio like Paramount or Sony. Sure, we may be a few years away from an A24 or Neon convention, but that’s a different thing. D23 is a show put on for yes, journalists like me, but also for people who identify themselves as fans of the Disney brand. But why is that so weird? For me, the answer was found in being a crowd at D23 that I was very much not a part of.