we are so small

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  • Nairn0

    Antonelli - the gas giants that rim our system are, although wholly alien to our experience, actually quite similar constructions.

    As humans, we have an anthropocentric viewpoint - we see ourselves as land-dwellers, up top on the surface, with the seas down, somewhere beneath us when we paddle at the beach.

    But then, we breathe air from an atmosphere of gas - in essence, we are no different to lobsters or flat fish, lying at the bottom of a gaseous ocean. It's all a question of density gradients, and we live somewhere in the middle of Earth's.

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