I dunno, I feel like neither empty space nor vast aeons of darkness are particularly pulling their weight in terms of really doing existing with any real level of conviction. It’s easy to be vast if you’re doing fuck all with most of it.
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PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The more you zoom out, the more you realize how insignificant we are. I’ve heard a lot of people realized this when they saw “The Pale Blue Dot” photograph of earth, but I had to have the perspective of time to realize it. We are nothing, not even a spit in the sea.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
if the history of the earth was a roll of toilet paper, human history would take up 1mm of that toilet roll. Does that make you seem even more insignificant?
stangel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are we talking standard roll or mega roll? 2-ply?
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
Try the Total Perspective Vortex.
kogasa@programming.dev 2 days ago
Highly effective unless the universe really does revolve around you.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s an equally valid frame of reference.