History of the Space Whale

I saw someone on the Internet asking why whales are so often associated with the cosmos. I did some digging and present to you the following post on the history of the space whale!

Oceanic Abduction by inutilem

The popularity of space whale art can be traced to the 1960s and 1970s. A few different cultural currents from that period coalesced into the ‘space whale’ motif. In brief, they are environmentalism, public awareness of scientific advances in understanding cetacean intelligence and behaviour, psychedelic drug culture, and space exploration.