• When did it dawn on you that Space is fucking big/The Earth Tiny
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for me it was in Science class when where shown the a Video of the Sun and how we could fit through a SuN Flare
When I looked up into the sky and didn't see a ceiling.
Staring at the moon, or the stars, and visualizing where I am on the planet. There's usually one to several seconds where you feel so detached and tiny compared to the rest of the universe.
When I realized that lightyears are incredibly small and the speed of light is slow. (If you wanted to travel galaxies.)
just think about the fact that there are things out there billions of miles away that are so fucking enormous that they collapsed under their own weight into something of INFINITE density whoooooooaaaaaaahhhhhh
When i learned the statistic that the sun contains over 99.8% of the mass of our solar system, so the other 0.2% is made up every planet and satellite combined. And that counted Jupiter which is about 317 times bigger than earth, and has about 63 moons. It gave me a raging hardon.
The Oldest Star [mEDIa]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PprRtLosj4A[/mEDIa]
Elementary School books about the Solar System
Who says we are tiny? Perhaps physically we are, but who knows what importance the human race will have in the future. We don't really know it, but the Universe is still pretty young, and there is much left to be seen and done. Maybe humans will be the ones to do it. Even once this Earth is well and gone, there will be humans living on. Perhaps they will make a monument to us, the people of the past to remember us for the tough times we pulled through. Hell, they may even rebuild it [I]Hitchhiker's[/I] style. Or we might just be sucked up by a black hole. That makes me feel pretty fucking tiny.
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;41768957]Who says we are tiny? Perhaps physically we are, but who knows what importance the human race will have in the future. We don't really know it, but the Universe is still pretty young, and there is much left to be seen and done. Maybe humans will be the ones to do it. Even once this Earth is well and gone, there will be humans living on. Perhaps they will make a monument to us, the people of the past to remember us for the tough times we pulled through. Hell, they may even rebuild it [I]Hitchhiker's[/I] style. Or we might just be sucked up by a black hole. That makes me feel pretty fucking tiny.[/QUOTE] I meant physically Tiny I agree with you we have a great impact.
When I watched Star Wars and realized there's other planets out there.
I realized it one time I was high. I grabbed my friend by the shoulders and shook him really hard and said "Oh my god I'm so small!"
I must be the only one who wish the universe was even bigger. The fact that it is finite bugs the crap out of me, so I really hope the theory of multiverses is correct.
It repeatedly dawns on me all the time.
I took an astronomy class in high school and it totally blew my mind
[QUOTE=Simski;41769719]I must be the only one who wish the universe was even bigger. The fact that it is finite bugs the crap out of me, so I really hope the theory of multiverses is correct.[/QUOTE] When people like you talk about the theory of multiverses, tell me how do you know it's not just the same big old Universe? It sounds like it was originally used as a a plot-device for sci-fi films or something.
I knew when I looked at the sky. Most definitely. But holy shit, when I played Space Engine (great game by the way), and looked at the Earth, then zoomed out all the way to the end of the universe, I wasn't sure how I didn't have an aneurism. Makes me uneasy how big it is.
You always sort of "know", but I always think about it for a bit after seeing one of those images that shows the scale of the universe and then you just feel so insignificant. We could literally destroy our whole galaxy and the universe would barely notice.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;41771588]When people like you talk about the theory of multiverses, tell me how do you know it's not just the same big old Universe? It sounds like it was originally used as a a plot-device for sci-fi films or something.[/QUOTE] I don't know it's not just the same big old universe, but I would think it is. I do believe that even if the theory of multiverses is correct, it would all as a whole still have to be finite. I don't find comfort in the idea of multiverses because I assume it would mean the universe is not finite, I find comfort in it because it would greatly expand any and all possibilities. I don't want mankind to ever learn everything there is to know about the universe, because that would mean there would be nothing left to discover. While the idea of exploring everything in our universe as a species is unlikely, the fact that the universe is finite means that with enough time it would still be possible. I therefor find comfort in the idea that even if we ever were to successfully discover everything in our universe, there would be things left to discover. This also has to do with my fear of the concept of invincibility, the possibility of living so long and witnessing so much that you no longer perceive anything as interesting and new, becoming so bored that living feels nothing more than a chore. Considering that we live in an age where technology to achieve immortality by reducing the effects of aging or replacing your mortal body with non-degenerating parts is ever so slightly becoming less sci-fi and more of an actual possibility, our species as a whole might eventually have all the time we need to explore every inch of this universe.
I don't know about the universe, but I only fully comprehended that there were other countries after 9/11.
When I learned of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament]galaxy filament.[/url] "In physical cosmology, galaxy filaments, also called supercluster complexes, great walls, or "great attractors", are amongst the largest known cosmic structures in the universe."
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_OWnlS56rE[/url] bill spelt it out for me
when i realized that stars arent tiny dots in the sky
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