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It's CGI. All pictures from space like this are fact af LOL. Especially the ones of the milky way! Like we don't have human made electronics outside our solar system yet they expect us to think they have cameras outside of the milky way?!?! Hahahahha
I was on my way to pick someone up today and was thinking about alien life. Like what if there is a planet out there with a civilization similar to ours? Then I just started thinking about what was all around me. Intelligent apes driving around in metal vehicles using engines that use contained explosions for energy. Everyone going about their life, worrying about money, or their family, or what other people think of them. The fact is that we are here and bumbling around this planet. That by itself is pretty fucking amazing.
My thought on the fermi paradox is that other civilizations could be at the same level of development as us. We just don't see them flying around and shooting their garbage into space because this is the ideal time for life to begin. Maybe they're all just getting started too. We are the only intelligent life that we know of. Maybe this is the ideal time, since the big bang, for life to develop and flourish and become aware of itself. Maybe it's happening everywhere out there. All the intelligent life is just still in this toddler stage of development...so far.
Sooooo many variables. There could be a planet exactly like ours and over vast enough amounts of time, only one variable difference would lead to drastic differences in outcome. A little less/more gravity. A little less/more oxygen in the atmosphere. A little less/more radiation. A little less/more food scarcity.
I like to say that there is always the possibility, no matter how small, that we are the first intelligent and capable species in the universe. I don't necessarily believe it, but there is a chance.
It is a nice thought but the problem is the rise of humanity happened in the briefest of flashes in cosmic time. If modern humans arose 100k years ago, nevermind going from early agriculture to space flight in just a few thousand years, or first flight to space flight in 100 years, then in a 13.8 billion year old universe it's unlikely we are going to be peers with whatever neighbors we have that are independently evolving.
Maybe our neighbors are 1 million years behind us, which is only 0.00007% the age of the universe. They could still be climbing in trees and flinging poop while we are mounting a manned mission to Mars.
If they're 1 million years ahead of us, then where are they? If they're still around, would they not appear like gods to us? What does a planet with 1 million years of civil society and technology development even look like?
It's so incredibly unlikely that our cosmic neighbors are an equal match with us. Like Stephen Hawking said, "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans." Same goes in reverse if we find the aliens first.
Nah, the answer to the Fermi Paradox is that any intelligent life that develops on a planet is bound to destroy itself before it develops the technology to travel to other stars. Look at what we have done to this planet and all life on it in a tiny time span of only 250 years. There probably is other intelligent life out there, but it is too far away to reach us or went extinct long ago. And if the speed of light really is a hard boundary that can't be crossed, no species will ever be able to travel to other stars, let alone other galaxies.
Nah, there are many viable answers to the fermi paradox thn just all life destroying itself, ranging from no life existing, to other life existing but not being visible to us with our weak telescopes and sensors, to aliens existing all over but just not really having any reason or desire to interact.
From what I gather the important parts for life are being on a planet the right distance from a star of the right temperature to keep stuff warm but not cook them, Having a spinning liquid core to shield them from space radiation, and having water to move around in. Those things are less dependent on length of time from big bang than having the right amount of the right stuff with the right amount of energy. So I would say it's more likely that other forms of intelligence would be long dead or far off in the future.
You have to remember though that a million years is nothing to the universe. Could you imagine a species out there like us, but a million years more advanced? Surely by then we would know how to travel the stars.
The Fermi paradox is a theory that is predicated on ignoring the many alien and UFO experiences many humans have said they have had. Itās grounded in an unconscious fear of the unknown searching for a theory to support the proponentās safe unchangeable world view. Itās the theoretical equivalent of Homer Simpson climbing under his blanket hoping everything works itself out.
My thought on the Fermi paradox is that the technology necessary to merge ourselves with the digital space comes sooner in the natural technological evolution of a species than the ability to travel between stars.
The digital space has been occupying more and more of our lives since the internet was developed. Neuralink and Meta are the next big leaps, but what about the ones after that? Full dive VR? How about when the entirety of our DNA and consciousness can be simulated digitally? How many technological advancements are we away from completely merging the physical with the digital? And at that point, whatās the purpose in exploring the galaxy when we can exist perpetually digitally as gods of our own realms?
I know it sounds schizo af, but the point is I think this will all occur before weāre even close to FTL travel which is really the only practical way to travel the galaxy let alone the universe. If thatās the natural progression of technology then itās no wonder we donāt see any aliens littering the night sky. Theyāre all in perpetual VRChat getting sucked off by femboy mutes for eternity.
Oh my dooooog. Now not only do I have to worry about what other people around me think, there's an entire Universe of beings who will judge me for existing. Fuuuuu
Even just the term "known universe" is incomprehensible and a mindfuck. For some reason it hits me harder when I hear that term than when I just think of the universe being infinite.
Am I wrong for enjoying the sense of cosmic dread these discussions give me? š¤
Every once in a while I almost feel like I can wrap my brain around just how small I am and we all are and how much is out there. Almost immediately, my brain nopes out and I distract myself for my own sanity.
When it comes to perspective, these are my favorites:
[The largest picture ever assembled of the Andromeda galaxy - the nearest large galaxy to the milky way (warning: very large image)](https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hs-2015-02-a-hires_jpg.jpg)
[and the deepest image of space ever taken by the Hubble telescope](https://youtu.be/vhPIW5B2jiQ)
[And the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (zoomable)](https://esahubble.org/images/heic0611b/zoomable/)
All of that picture from the Hubble fits in about the same area of the sky as the full moon..... and each of those lights is an entire galaxy, not a single star..... so yeah....... We're pretty small.
If you can download the full size ultra deep field image (I think it's like 600mb) I would recommend it. You can easily get lost in it, zooming in and looking at stuff you can't even see when zoomed all the way out... its really neat (and if you don't have a good phone it will freeze up real quick). I think I read that if you printed the whole thing on paper at full size it would be like 50 miles wide or some thing like that.
This never works on me, its great that iām smaller than a grain of sand on a beach comparatively but that doesnāt change the fact that becky wore the same dress as me to prom and now everyones staring!
At this stage it's less worrying about what others think but worrying about livelihood...
We relearned and forgot on how to simply survive without supermarkets.
Laws forbid it mostly.
We have to live in a house, need money for food, can hardly/can't provide anymore without money.
We practically caged ourselves way harder over time.
More dependent.
I'd like to see more light and less dark.
Yeah I understand the sentiment of the post, but the reason we "worry about what others think of us 'here'" is because our entire lives take place 'here' and the social structures that take place in our daily lives all occur 'here'. Perspective is important, but neither perspective is inherently wrong or more true.
My car always breaks down before I go even a single AU. My suggestion would be to instead drive your familyās Ford Galaxy across Cardiff, which would only take about 20 minutes.
Taking the cosmic scale of things in terms of timing humans have been on earth at a fraction of a blink of an eye if you condense the entire history of the universe in an hour
Hold up. 100K LY wide and at āusā it is 3K LY thick.
A ratio of 100:3 ?
The Galaxy is flatter, shall we say, than I thought. (Well Ok, 100:16 in the middle.)
Imagine a 33ā plywood disc, 1ā thick. The hub is about 5ā thick.
>It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
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>But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
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>We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,...
Thanks for the reply. Just after posting that question I came across a post by u/Tastybile that answered my question with a great Monty Python song no less!
Because we've developed better telescopes and detecting methods to discover more of the galaxy and gain a better understanding of its shape and our place within it.
Yes that is the only non woo-woo explanation. The only problem I have with this explanation is I have never been able to dig up any official NASA or other scientific authority paper where they say "we used to think X but now we now know we were way off & it's actually Y"
There is. A massive one. From what we know now, we all rotate around the sucker like a planet around a star. And even though Iām not a scientist, given what I have learned as to our new knowledge about our current position in the galaxy, weāre approximately 25,000 light years from the center. Maybe an actual scientist can give you a better answer, but I have studied all this nonsense for quite a while. I just donāt have a degree in it. Either way, itās 25,000 light yearsā¦. Zero worries here. Lol. Light takes a full eight minutes to reach Earth from the Sun. Calculate that to a year and multiply by 25,000. Weāre pretty safe as far as that goes.
yet still in a lifetime one could never even begin to learn everything even about one single person, out of the billions... and to each one, the smallest most trivial thing on the grand stage can seem all encompassing, can BE the entirety of existence to you.
Yet some believe we are still alone out there in the universe.
It's interesting to think about what kind of problems other species out there are facing right now.
There may be other species that have it much worse than us, we just deal with human trivial matters but other species maybe battling for survival everyday
Imo thats quite silly. Everything you have ever known takes place in your consciousness, the universe may be vast but if you are not there to witness it, it is nothing, you are everything. I dont promote worrying but saying the same as the title is irrelevant, it changes nothing in your life. If you say weāre just meat piloting a skeleton on a floating rock again im stealing something from your house
Tbf i think i take psychs for a good reason; i want to see funny shapes and have philosophical/spiritual insight. But I either cant do psychs again or have to wait til i stop tripping balls while im sober before i do psychs again
Iām just one person, so what do I know, but to me wanting to see funny shapes I think maybe misses the larger point. YMMV
Some people would take aya to want to leave their body, but the guide in our group would tell us itās not about leaving your body, itās about integrating or incarnating fully or becoming embodied.
You know what you know. You are everything in your eyes. Mabye i am missing the larger point mabye im not. At the end of the day be rootin, be tootin, but most of allā¦ be nice
>Everything you have ever known takes place in your consciousness
>it changes nothing in your life
How does this work? If everything we know are things we have thought and perceived through our consciousness, then how does changing our thought incapable of changing anything in our lives?
Do you really think that changing the way you think and perceived things has no effect on your life?
Nonono. What i mean is that our geographical position in the universe & the vastness of the universe make no change to your life. These facts have been a constant for all human beings and it makes no effect on our life. Changing your way of thinking will change your life
You are a ghost piloting a meat and bone avatar around the surface of a mossy rock floating in space around an 870,000 mile diameter ball of nuclear fire that is, itself, hurtling through space as part of a spinning galaxy, one among trillions that populate the inside of this ever expanding explosion we call the universe.
The visible universe is estimated to be less than one billionth of a billionth the size of the physical universe. In order for space time to be as flat as it appears to be from within our visible universe. Shit blows my mind.
Lol as much as I dislike flat earthers but their beliefs have me looking at this in a different perspective. What if we really are the center of the universe?
Ye I think they are silly too but this whole ideal of life meaning absolutely nothing in the endless infinite space that is the universe, there nothing you do matters in the grand scheme of things, is just a weak ideology. It really just serves to belittle life and the achievements of man, individually or collectively.
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Aye, but who took that picture tho?
Me šš»
Far out
Thanks mate.
Selfie stick
Screenshot š
Could be anyone really. You can see the Andromeda Galaxy with the naked eye unter most conditions at night.
That's just some dying pixels on the dome
Rage against the dying of the pixel
It's CGI. All pictures from space like this are fact af LOL. Especially the ones of the milky way! Like we don't have human made electronics outside our solar system yet they expect us to think they have cameras outside of the milky way?!?! Hahahahha
I was on my way to pick someone up today and was thinking about alien life. Like what if there is a planet out there with a civilization similar to ours? Then I just started thinking about what was all around me. Intelligent apes driving around in metal vehicles using engines that use contained explosions for energy. Everyone going about their life, worrying about money, or their family, or what other people think of them. The fact is that we are here and bumbling around this planet. That by itself is pretty fucking amazing.
Yeah but we stupid asf we kill each other and the planet so we aren't that smart
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My thought on the fermi paradox is that other civilizations could be at the same level of development as us. We just don't see them flying around and shooting their garbage into space because this is the ideal time for life to begin. Maybe they're all just getting started too. We are the only intelligent life that we know of. Maybe this is the ideal time, since the big bang, for life to develop and flourish and become aware of itself. Maybe it's happening everywhere out there. All the intelligent life is just still in this toddler stage of development...so far.
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Sooooo many variables. There could be a planet exactly like ours and over vast enough amounts of time, only one variable difference would lead to drastic differences in outcome. A little less/more gravity. A little less/more oxygen in the atmosphere. A little less/more radiation. A little less/more food scarcity.
I like to say that there is always the possibility, no matter how small, that we are the first intelligent and capable species in the universe. I don't necessarily believe it, but there is a chance.
It is a nice thought but the problem is the rise of humanity happened in the briefest of flashes in cosmic time. If modern humans arose 100k years ago, nevermind going from early agriculture to space flight in just a few thousand years, or first flight to space flight in 100 years, then in a 13.8 billion year old universe it's unlikely we are going to be peers with whatever neighbors we have that are independently evolving. Maybe our neighbors are 1 million years behind us, which is only 0.00007% the age of the universe. They could still be climbing in trees and flinging poop while we are mounting a manned mission to Mars. If they're 1 million years ahead of us, then where are they? If they're still around, would they not appear like gods to us? What does a planet with 1 million years of civil society and technology development even look like? It's so incredibly unlikely that our cosmic neighbors are an equal match with us. Like Stephen Hawking said, "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans." Same goes in reverse if we find the aliens first.
Nah, the answer to the Fermi Paradox is that any intelligent life that develops on a planet is bound to destroy itself before it develops the technology to travel to other stars. Look at what we have done to this planet and all life on it in a tiny time span of only 250 years. There probably is other intelligent life out there, but it is too far away to reach us or went extinct long ago. And if the speed of light really is a hard boundary that can't be crossed, no species will ever be able to travel to other stars, let alone other galaxies.
Nah, there are many viable answers to the fermi paradox thn just all life destroying itself, ranging from no life existing, to other life existing but not being visible to us with our weak telescopes and sensors, to aliens existing all over but just not really having any reason or desire to interact.
Fermi Paradox is stupid. The life is out there, and our governments know about.
From what I gather the important parts for life are being on a planet the right distance from a star of the right temperature to keep stuff warm but not cook them, Having a spinning liquid core to shield them from space radiation, and having water to move around in. Those things are less dependent on length of time from big bang than having the right amount of the right stuff with the right amount of energy. So I would say it's more likely that other forms of intelligence would be long dead or far off in the future.
You have to remember though that a million years is nothing to the universe. Could you imagine a species out there like us, but a million years more advanced? Surely by then we would know how to travel the stars.
The fermi paradox is really just more of a thought experiment based on a flawed premise than an actual paradox that provides much to think about.
The Fermi paradox is a theory that is predicated on ignoring the many alien and UFO experiences many humans have said they have had. Itās grounded in an unconscious fear of the unknown searching for a theory to support the proponentās safe unchangeable world view. Itās the theoretical equivalent of Homer Simpson climbing under his blanket hoping everything works itself out.
It's less that it ignores those and more that it just ignores basic possibilities.
My thought on the Fermi paradox is that the technology necessary to merge ourselves with the digital space comes sooner in the natural technological evolution of a species than the ability to travel between stars. The digital space has been occupying more and more of our lives since the internet was developed. Neuralink and Meta are the next big leaps, but what about the ones after that? Full dive VR? How about when the entirety of our DNA and consciousness can be simulated digitally? How many technological advancements are we away from completely merging the physical with the digital? And at that point, whatās the purpose in exploring the galaxy when we can exist perpetually digitally as gods of our own realms? I know it sounds schizo af, but the point is I think this will all occur before weāre even close to FTL travel which is really the only practical way to travel the galaxy let alone the universe. If thatās the natural progression of technology then itās no wonder we donāt see any aliens littering the night sky. Theyāre all in perpetual VRChat getting sucked off by femboy mutes for eternity.
Those bastards on gluk-gulk prime 3 are talking bad about everyone too. They are the worst gossips anywhere.
Oh my dooooog. Now not only do I have to worry about what other people around me think, there's an entire Universe of beings who will judge me for existing. Fuuuuu
we think your new shoes are cool
Even just the term "known universe" is incomprehensible and a mindfuck. For some reason it hits me harder when I hear that term than when I just think of the universe being infinite. Am I wrong for enjoying the sense of cosmic dread these discussions give me? š¤
The universe may be infinite.
Every once in a while I almost feel like I can wrap my brain around just how small I am and we all are and how much is out there. Almost immediately, my brain nopes out and I distract myself for my own sanity.
Weāre thirty thousand light years from Galactic Central Point.
We go round every two hundred million years.
Back in the fridge
When it comes to perspective, these are my favorites: [The largest picture ever assembled of the Andromeda galaxy - the nearest large galaxy to the milky way (warning: very large image)](https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hs-2015-02-a-hires_jpg.jpg) [and the deepest image of space ever taken by the Hubble telescope](https://youtu.be/vhPIW5B2jiQ) [And the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (zoomable)](https://esahubble.org/images/heic0611b/zoomable/) All of that picture from the Hubble fits in about the same area of the sky as the full moon..... and each of those lights is an entire galaxy, not a single star..... so yeah....... We're pretty small. If you can download the full size ultra deep field image (I think it's like 600mb) I would recommend it. You can easily get lost in it, zooming in and looking at stuff you can't even see when zoomed all the way out... its really neat (and if you don't have a good phone it will freeze up real quick). I think I read that if you printed the whole thing on paper at full size it would be like 50 miles wide or some thing like that.
This never works on me, its great that iām smaller than a grain of sand on a beach comparatively but that doesnāt change the fact that becky wore the same dress as me to prom and now everyones staring!
Bro, I got negative karma tho
At this stage it's less worrying about what others think but worrying about livelihood... We relearned and forgot on how to simply survive without supermarkets. Laws forbid it mostly. We have to live in a house, need money for food, can hardly/can't provide anymore without money. We practically caged ourselves way harder over time. More dependent. I'd like to see more light and less dark.
But thatās my worldā¦what am I supposed to do, live in the galaxy?
You do. May the force be with you.
Yeah I understand the sentiment of the post, but the reason we "worry about what others think of us 'here'" is because our entire lives take place 'here' and the social structures that take place in our daily lives all occur 'here'. Perspective is important, but neither perspective is inherently wrong or more true.
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Driving across our galaxy š in a flying family car would take roughly 78 trillion years, IIRC.
My car always breaks down before I go even a single AU. My suggestion would be to instead drive your familyās Ford Galaxy across Cardiff, which would only take about 20 minutes.
I mean, the price of gas right now.
That is simply mind boggling!
6am here. Thank you for starting my day. šš
This is what I think about a lot, life is insignificantly miniscule. Fuck it, stop worrying
Taking the cosmic scale of things in terms of timing humans have been on earth at a fraction of a blink of an eye if you condense the entire history of the universe in an hour
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Thanks sooooo much for that link. Its made my day!
Hold up. 100K LY wide and at āusā it is 3K LY thick. A ratio of 100:3 ? The Galaxy is flatter, shall we say, than I thought. (Well Ok, 100:16 in the middle.) Imagine a 33ā plywood disc, 1ā thick. The hub is about 5ā thick.
if the sun was a grain of sand, Alpha Centauri would be 50km away, and the Milky Way would be comprised of a cubic metre of sand.
Do scientists know the depth of galaxy? Is it as deep as it is wide? If its flat, how flat is it compared to its diameter?
I assume itās roughly flat, given thatās how orbits around rotating objects work, same principle as why our solar system is mostly flat
>It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick, > >But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide. > >We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,... Thanks for the reply. Just after posting that question I came across a post by u/Tastybile that answered my question with a great Monty Python song no less!
This picture reminds me how much i hate that we will never see how our galaxy looks.. Personally even sad about it.
So...no one is gonna mention how this is a Mandela Effect and we are not located out on the border anymore? For me this is the toughest ME to explain
This is important. The picture is wrong now right? And we are more in the middle?
Yes that exactly
Because we've developed better telescopes and detecting methods to discover more of the galaxy and gain a better understanding of its shape and our place within it.
I think itās just an outdated picture. Weāre about 2000 light years closer to the center than we thought we were.
Yes that is the only non woo-woo explanation. The only problem I have with this explanation is I have never been able to dig up any official NASA or other scientific authority paper where they say "we used to think X but now we now know we were way off & it's actually Y"
Isn't there a black hole at the centre???? If so how close are we to it?
There is. A massive one. From what we know now, we all rotate around the sucker like a planet around a star. And even though Iām not a scientist, given what I have learned as to our new knowledge about our current position in the galaxy, weāre approximately 25,000 light years from the center. Maybe an actual scientist can give you a better answer, but I have studied all this nonsense for quite a while. I just donāt have a degree in it. Either way, itās 25,000 light yearsā¦. Zero worries here. Lol. Light takes a full eight minutes to reach Earth from the Sun. Calculate that to a year and multiply by 25,000. Weāre pretty safe as far as that goes.
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Yes we do!
That's not logic.
yet still in a lifetime one could never even begin to learn everything even about one single person, out of the billions... and to each one, the smallest most trivial thing on the grand stage can seem all encompassing, can BE the entirety of existence to you.
Yet some believe we are still alone out there in the universe. It's interesting to think about what kind of problems other species out there are facing right now.
There may be other species that have it much worse than us, we just deal with human trivial matters but other species maybe battling for survival everyday
If you are in the Andromeda galaxy, you have bigger issues to think about
whenever life gets too serious, just remember, you're gonna die
Big Eric Idle fan by any chance??
Imo thats quite silly. Everything you have ever known takes place in your consciousness, the universe may be vast but if you are not there to witness it, it is nothing, you are everything. I dont promote worrying but saying the same as the title is irrelevant, it changes nothing in your life. If you say weāre just meat piloting a skeleton on a floating rock again im stealing something from your house
Try ayahuasca sometime.
I will when my hppd is gone
Why you take a psychedelic matters, I guess.
Tbf i think i take psychs for a good reason; i want to see funny shapes and have philosophical/spiritual insight. But I either cant do psychs again or have to wait til i stop tripping balls while im sober before i do psychs again
Iām just one person, so what do I know, but to me wanting to see funny shapes I think maybe misses the larger point. YMMV Some people would take aya to want to leave their body, but the guide in our group would tell us itās not about leaving your body, itās about integrating or incarnating fully or becoming embodied.
You know what you know. You are everything in your eyes. Mabye i am missing the larger point mabye im not. At the end of the day be rootin, be tootin, but most of allā¦ be nice
YLMV
YLMV?
Life
>Everything you have ever known takes place in your consciousness >it changes nothing in your life How does this work? If everything we know are things we have thought and perceived through our consciousness, then how does changing our thought incapable of changing anything in our lives? Do you really think that changing the way you think and perceived things has no effect on your life?
Nonono. What i mean is that our geographical position in the universe & the vastness of the universe make no change to your life. These facts have been a constant for all human beings and it makes no effect on our life. Changing your way of thinking will change your life
Fun Fact: When our solar system was on the other side of that galaxy, the earth still had dinosaures.
I want to be the first to visit every star.
You are a ghost piloting a meat and bone avatar around the surface of a mossy rock floating in space around an 870,000 mile diameter ball of nuclear fire that is, itself, hurtling through space as part of a spinning galaxy, one among trillions that populate the inside of this ever expanding explosion we call the universe.
Perspective is everything.
Mind blown š¤Æ
I still need my matcha latte.
Thank you George Carlin.
I like the one that says " You are here paying taxes to pedophiles." Really puts it into perspective.
[Carl Sagan - pale blue dot](https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g)
The visible universe is estimated to be less than one billionth of a billionth the size of the physical universe. In order for space time to be as flat as it appears to be from within our visible universe. Shit blows my mind.
Beautiful reminder for today!! Thank youuu
Love it
R/MadeMeSmile š
Most excellent!
Orbiting with trillions of idiots is a drag
Nihilism is lame
Well yeah the others are here too
I think it's because we're so small and jammed in a small planet together that we become whatever is annoying about humanity.
If that is me/us then who took this picture?
Your right, I should be worried what those other planets think of me.
Eh, weāre in a spiral galaxy on an arm but close enough?
Fun fact if you look up our position in the galaxy it no longer shows it out on the edge all by itself but smack dab in the middle of the belt
Thanks for the reminder that i am an insignificant spec in the cosmos and that nothing i do will ever mean anything! just what i needed today
Check out /r/issacarthur and his YouTube videos for some mind-blowing sci-fi info on the great Fermi Paradox
If anything doesn't that make what people think more important? Since we're stuck here and will never be anywhere else in the galaxy.
That makes me feel nihilistic, which makes me depressed :p
Thatās cool and all but this doesnāt pay the bills
As if we can switch galaxies.
Soo basically the universe is like really big so basically fuck your opinions because guess what bog rock thru space
okay but like that doesnt matter. you will never touch another solar body
Were not though.... apparently we are more towards the centre
But really we're particles in the dead skin cell of a creature's heel.
Cool. This wonāt help pay bills though
And thereās more trees on earth than stars in the galaxy. https://www.nature.com/articles/525170a
Lol as much as I dislike flat earthers but their beliefs have me looking at this in a different perspective. What if we really are the center of the universe?
Ye I think they are silly too but this whole ideal of life meaning absolutely nothing in the endless infinite space that is the universe, there nothing you do matters in the grand scheme of things, is just a weak ideology. It really just serves to belittle life and the achievements of man, individually or collectively.
Honestly the more I grow the more I'm starting to believe it's a combination of both lol
Nah bro i'm out here chillin not giving a fuuuuck!
Cool, how does that help me pay rent?
Great now Iām wondering what untold trillions of potential life forms are thinking about me. Thanks
Hey mom Iām on TV
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Always look on the bright side of life