We use the recently introduced étale open topology to prove several facts on large fields. We show that these facts lift to a very general topological setting.Throughout K, L are fields, L is infinite, and A m K , A m L is m-dimensional affine space over K, L, respectively. A K-variety is a separated K-scheme of finite type, not assumed to be reducedbe the coordinate ring of V , and K(V ) be the function field of V when V is integral.L is large if every smooth L-curve with an L-point has infinitely many L-points. Finitely generated fields are not large. Most other fields of particular interest are either large, or are function fields over large fields, or have unknown status. Local fields, real closed fields, separably closed fields, fields which admit Henselian valuations, quotient fields of Henselian domains, pseudofinite fields, infinite algebraic extensions of finite fields, PAC fields, p-closed fields, and fields that satisfy a local-global principle are all large. Function fields are not large. It is an open question whether the maximal abelian or maximal solvable extension of Q is large. See [Pop] and [BSF14] for more background on large fields.We will give topological proofs of Facts A,B, and C below. Fact A is [Pop, Proposition 2.6].Fact A. Suppose that L is large and V is an irreducible L-variety with a smooth L-point. Then V (L) is Zariski dense in V .Facts B and C are due to Fehm. Fact B is proven in [Feh10]. Note that Fehm uses "ample" for "large" (this is one of a surprisingly large number of names used in the literature.) Fact B. Suppose that L is large, K is a proper subfield of L, and V is a positive-dimensional irreducible K-variety with a smooth K-point. Then |V (L) \ V (K)| = |L|.