we are so small
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- Mal0
Small but big as the universe at the same time.
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- GeorgesII0
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maybe they are here, maybe they've been here even before us, we don't know and we never will be sure, but like many people out there I've had my share of interesting event happen to me and it opened my eyes on what is seen and what is occulted,
I know how skepticism works, even if there are scientific proofs, you'll find deniers, its inside the human nature.
I don't remember who said it, but it somewhat like this"in the past people were overly superstitious, but now he'is overly skeptical,
none of these views are correct because we can not separate science from spiriuality and spirituality from science,
when men will learn to conjugate them he will be granted the secret to eternal life"
- GeorgesII0
if you like astronomy and some spirituality, this video will blow your mind
we are truly small and probably not alone at all- I think I saw this lecture live.monospaced
- just that intro music blew my mindnadnerb
- really mono, that must have been really coolGeorgesII
- Antonelli0
this kind of stuff makes me want to quit everything. even standing at the ocean makes me feel insignificant. we're nothing. the nothing of nothing's nothing.
- monospaced0
Significant or not, you still have to play this game.
- The game of life.monospaced
- i don't take it for granted. i know how greatly significant and greatly insignificant it is.Antonelli
- Do they have Playstation2 version?TheBlueOne
- harlequino0
Say this blanket represents all the matter and energy in the universe, okay? You, me, everything. Nothing has been left out, all right? All the particles, everything. Let's just say that this is me, all right? And I'm, what, 60-odd years old and I'm wearing a gray suit. Blah, blah, blah.
And let's say over here, this is you. And, you're... I don't know, you're 21. You got dark hair, etc. And over here, this is Vivian, my wife and colleague. Then over here, this is the Eiffel tower, right? It's Paris! And this is a war. And this is, uh, a museum. And this is a disease. And this is an orgasm. And this is a hamburger.
Everything is the same even if it's different.
- sureshot0
holy shit!
- moth0
Even if intelligent life had broken the lightspeed barrier, it wouldn't matter - lightspeed is still pretty damn slow when you're trying to traverse the Universe.
Further to that, intelligent, Universe traversing life could have had it's day already. Starwars could've been and gone. We could be the proverbial cockroaches who inherited the Universe after every other form of life destroyed itself.
- kreydle0
Mind boggling, that's for sure. Great stuff on the History channel (their Universe show) about this.
- Kiggen0
I really like the vastness of space. Must be amazing that one day we might explore this...
- monospaced0
And to think that there are people out there who think that the universe is only thousands of years old.
- better still people who think the world is flatKiko
- no!monospaced
- Not_Just_Another0
- Great book. You should check out "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi, you'd dig.TheBlueOne
- BattleAxe0
i want to be frozen and shot up into space and just hope some aliens dont think im a tv dinner
- sureshot0
bumb!
- CygnusZero40
Yeah, there may be something out there beyond the universe that makes everything within it seem so small. Maybe all the planets and stars are just cells of a much larger organism.
- The Marvel Multiverse?TheBlueOne
- It's fascinating to think about, and endlessly irritating that none of us will ever know the truth.CygnusZero4
- moth0
There's also that thought in my mind that alien life would be so far out of the reaches of our minds that you just wouldn't recognise it.
- dolphins ?GeorgesII
- good pointJamal_Jenkins
- indeed.Corvo2
- The whole concept of aliens that look even remotely like us sometimes seems silly, but at the same time, we look like we do for a reason apparently, so its entirely possible other creatures could evolve the same and end up similar to us.CygnusZero4
- ninjasavant0
science makes me giddy.