you wanna feel insignificant

[Mr. Daystar]

get stoned and think about it then! You'll be fascinated for hours!

Can't...random tests. Plus, I would need to drop acid to ponder that, and it's been so long since I have, I'm kind of scared to do it again.

 

[ezteban]

I do not feel insignificant.

:hatsoff:

:hatsoff:You are not , of course !

 

[somebadlemonade]

i've seen this before, i find it more amazing than anything else. why show you be affraid of what brought this world in which we live and us into existance?
it may be impartial to who you are and what you've done, but it's equal and fair to all known things

 

[Marlo Manson]

This is the epitome of surrealiness, it also goes a long way in proving the notion that proves there's no god, which of cours is merely a figment of our imagination too quell our nerve's to explain what we can't. but thats too :2offtopic for this thread. but we are a spec of light 800 billion years away from any of these galaxies. makes you say hmmm. what is life really about? whats our purpose (humans for those who don't follow) here on earth? Are we being researched, examined, studied, scrutinized like ants, mice & other disposable life forms? what I am getting @ is, are we being researched by another life form? :dunno::2 cents:

 

[Wainkerr99]

I kind of feel like I've been donked on the head with a rubber mallet. Oki, now that my neurons have stopped spinning a little. Well, actually it is exceptionally special that we exist, n'est ce pas? We, puny humans to whom the most important things in the Universe are 'making money' and waging war on the 'enemy', actually exist and have life in the great and wonderful Universe.

What a chance we have. Will we ever take it?

To those of us who do value love, kudos.

 

[DJCowboy]

Out of all those stars and galaxies and there are still people who believe we're the only life out there. (I do believe that a majority of other life is just like bacteria or animals that can't even begin to comprehend of what we're discussing here, for instance)

Also, no matter how much money we pour into trying to get out of just our solar system, I believe it is a waste of time. It would take us 4.3 LIGHT YEARS just to get to the next solar system. We will never create technology that can send something that fast. We have to break the spaceship itself down into individual atoms and have them put themselves back together once we get there. It's just impossible

I do believe though we should explore other options of planets we can colonize nearby

 

[Facetious]

You in your person could be the size of a flea or the size of California, either way, you're still nuthin' ! :crying:

:scream:

 

[STDiva]

Someone on this board recommended I watch the documentary series, The Universe, and if you want to talk about insignificance...wow. I'm only 4 episodes in and it is incredible.

 

[ezteban]

Yes we are insignificant but we are the lonely creatures who care about that !

 

[DJCowboy]

Someone on this board recommended I watch the documentary series, The Universe, and if you want to talk about insignificance...wow. I'm only 4 episodes in and it is incredible.

Yeah, I love that show. My favorite episode is the one about 10 extreme ways the earth could end. And when I say 'extreme' I mean, almost impossible. Some of them are like if Mars were to collide with Earth or if we drifted away from the Sun or if the earth just completely stopped moving (I liked that one because if the earth's rotation came to a complete stop we'd have sudden gusts of winds up to 1,000+ mph!) The most extreme one was if two black holes suddenly formed on opposite sides of the planet, needless to say we would be royally fucked

 

[TheOnlyOne69]

no not really i knew that already

 

[jakeballs77]

Out of all those stars and galaxies and there are still people who believe we're the only life out there. (I do believe that a majority of other life is just like bacteria or animals that can't even begin to comprehend of what we're discussing here, for instance)

haven't you ever watched Star Trek? At least 99% of all the aliens your ever likely to meet walk on two legs and drink alcohol!

 

[Galactic]

Wow. Truly fucking galactic. Incredible pics.

 

[ezteban]

Wow. Truly fucking galactic. Incredible pics.

:1orglaugh Fucking Galactic ...You mean Universe, dont you ? :thumbsup:

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

I'm not going to lie; when I look at those, for some reason I get scared.

When it comes to insignifigance, I really think this says it best. Look at this and read...

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

 

[DJCowboy]

http://biocab.org/Cosmic_Cloud-Solar_System-Milky_Way.jpg
:1orglaugh

 

[BlueBalls]

I'm not going to lie; when I look at those, for some reason I get scared.

When it comes to insignifigance, I really think this says it best. Look at this and read...

Why not listen to the great man himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g :bowdown:

 

[Ace Bandage]

Thank you, my self-esteem had been hovering around normal, and I had been meaning to knock it down a few pegs. But seriously, that really puts it in perspective. Very interesting stuff there. I had no idea some of the stars were that enormous.