I’m insignificant?
Oh, thank God
Know your place
Submitted 15 hours ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
mo_lave@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
“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 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. 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.
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.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Beautiful … thanks for posting this … Carl Sagan has always been and will always be a great inspiration for me
mo_lave@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
You’re welcome
millie@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
Such a weird mentality. Why would being small make us any less significant than something large? Why would being large make us any more significant than being small? Silly.
Dirk@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Upvoted for linking Wikipedia and not some shitty YT video.
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You can’t get to this star in Elite Dangerous, but you can get to VY Canis Majoris which is 1420 radii
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
what is the minimum and maximum size of a star? i.e. what is the minimum mass to ignite hydrogen fusion or whatever generates heat, and what is the maximum size where it just collapses into a black hole?
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The minimum is about 80 Jupiter Masses. Smaller than that and you can’t start fusing.
Maximum size is harder to answer. It’s determined by the Eddington Limit. Which describes the luminosity at which radiation pressure is enough to overcome gravity for a certain mass.
It’s thought that the maximum mass of a star is somewhere around 150 solar masses, but there’s some evidence to contradict this, as we’ve seen a handful of very old stars with masses or luminosities higher than they should be.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Reported for doxing
Ste41th@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
You live on mars?
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 15 hours ago
Must be a guy. Probably trying to figure out how to get to Venus.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 14 hours ago
Found the Perseverance account
casmael@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
You need to cut back on the pan galactic gargle blasters mate
baggins@beehaw.org 9 hours ago
Was hoping someone would do this.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
On Mars? TIL
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
deus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I wonder if the flag was updated after what happened to Deimos.
muhyb@programming.dev 12 hours ago
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
literally this. there’s more cells in each human than there are human on earth.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Here’s the galaxy and our approximate location in this system. To give you an idea of scale … the galaxy is estimated to be about 100,000 light years across. Meaning that if you could travel at the speed of light (which is impossible), it would still take you 100,000 years to cross the galaxy from edge to edge.
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
100000 years from an outside perspective, but because of time dilation you could make it take arbitrarily little time from your reference frame.
School_Lunch@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I liked the character’s from Project Hail Mary perspective. The fact that we experience less time the closer we are to the speed of light is almost like an invitation to explore the stars.
Another things that gets me is the time experienced by black holes. We would think of the black hole at the center of the galaxy as some enduring, permanent thing, but with so much gravity, from the black hole’s perspective it may only exist for a fraction of a second.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I don’t fully understand how the science and theory works around all that … all I understand is that it is so unbelievably far away that in order to cross any of those distances or even think about crossing those distances, it begins to break our normal understanding of speed, distances and time.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
How do you know where I am?
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Out of 2 trillion galaxies that we know of? … it was a lucky guess.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 hours ago
Epic Spaceman on Youtube had a great scale realization method. If out galaxy was the size of the United States, our solar system would be somewhere around the city of Denver. The neighborhood stars we can individually see with our eyes would be the area of the Denver city lights. The Sun would be the size of a red blood cell, and the solar system's expanse would be the size of a fingerprint.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I always loved those examples that show the scale of planets, stars and systems. I remember years ago before I got on the internet (yes I’m that old), reading a comic or book, I can’t remember where … all I remember is the cartoon and illustration.
If you made a scale model of the galaxy and fit it in between the earth and the moon … our sun would be the size of a marble and it’s nearest neighbour would be about a mile away. And some of the largest stars would be about the size of an average office building.
bryndos@fedia.io 12 hours ago
"If you've done six impossible things today, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways!"
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Here’s another perspective … this is local galactic group. Our nearest galactic neighbor is the Andromeda Galaxy … it’s located about 2 million light years from us. Again, if you could travel at the speed of light (which is impossible), it would still take you 2 million years to get there.
Another way of thinking of it is that the light we see from Andromeda today started it’s journey when our first prehistoric human ancestors first evolved in Africa 2 million years ago.
zout@fedia.io 13 hours ago
If you could travel at the speed of light, the only tim it would take you is the time spent speedign up and slowing down. Traveling at the speed of light stops the time for you.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Meaning that if you could travel at the speed of light (which is impossible), it would still take you 100,000 years to cross the galaxy from edge to edge.
It’s just highly improbable to cross the galaxy in less than 100 000 years. You just need a device which generates infinite improbability and that’ll pass you trough every single point in the universe simultaneously and you can just stop where needed. Side effects may apply.
baggins@beehaw.org 9 hours ago
Yes, it’s the unfashionable western spiral arm. We get it.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
now imagine how insanely long it would take for any extraterrestrial species to fly through all that and meet us. that might explain why we haven’t met any of that yet.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I sure love living in a burning planet where I have to pay taxes to pedophiles who want to send me to a concentration camp.
freijon@lemmings.world 10 hours ago
What are the 4 dots after Neptune?
groet@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Dwarf planets: Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris
There should also be one (Ceres) in Jupiters shadow, right of the planet the arrow is pointing to. Which is Mars and not earth btw …
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 10 hours ago
“Hey that’s where you live too cunt.”
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Anyone fixating on size this much is definitely compensating for something.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 9 hours ago
“My turds are the biggest!”
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
And yet we are the only conscious beings on any of these heavenly bodies that are aware enough to give their existence any meaning at all.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
And everyone wants to kill each other over a few grains of that dirtball
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Yeah but what about the economy?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
the economy says that you generate jobs if you develop and push forward spaceflight …
Bonus@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Wow, big shelf though!
monogram@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
Fuck you
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Martians say: “Fuck off!”
Yes, they speak English. They speak every Earth language and more.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
No reason to be so mean to J’onn J’onzz you bully.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Fail.
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
and I will mean infinitely more than them, for I am their creation. The end of their efforts, the unique, the observer and the changer. I am their meaning and they my guarantor.
funkajunk@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That’s fair.
Una@europe.pub 15 hours ago
No, I am THE ENERGY I am everywhere but nowhere
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
The arrow points to Mars, not to Earth.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 15 hours ago
So it's a message from the future specifically for Elon Musk.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 14 hours ago
His Roadster is beckoning…
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
This meme isn’t directed toward humans.
0ops@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
Cocky-ass martians smh
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 12 hours ago
Where’s Marvin when you need him?
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Yeah, that’s kinda weird
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
It was made for the colonists
Nima@leminal.space 14 hours ago
british empire. i gotcha.
Zephorah@discuss.online 15 hours ago
Getting a lot of memes with errors like this lately.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 15 hours ago
Interaction bait bleed over from commercial social media.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
I assume this in regard to the possible evidence of life on mars, recently announced.
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 53 minutes ago
I’ll go with Occam’s razor instead and say that’s just a small mistake 😛
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 10 hours ago
That’s the only reason I opened this post; i.e., it may be “engagement bait,” a recent online trend.
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s “AI” what do you expect?
/s