actually I don’t care. I don’t have to be the star of the show, I just want to be happy and I’m hot enough to be my own star (or sun to be specific).
Know your place
Submitted 6 months ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
The sun is actually pretty small. Do a comparison between the sun and some of the bigger stars, then we’ll see just how insignificant we really are.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
why does the existence of larger things have any bearing on our significance?
Noodle07@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Are we talking about peepee size here ?
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I was on 2C-B and lounging about in my brother’s room, staring at a big glowing plastic moon I had bought for him as a joke, when somehow the word and concept of it sent me spiraling down a rabbit hole of cosmic realization. At first the moon (or perhaps my thoughts surrounding the moon) began to rotate like a planetary body, becoming a parent star in a galactic arm, and eventually the central mass of a galaxy itself, ever turning with long tendril arms orbiting around its perimeter.
As the question of it grew, it became the universe itself, on a profoundly metaphysical level, and I came to the realization that every single living organism, both here and elsewhere in the cosmos, are not so much a part or some greater plan or design, but are instead just individual cells and appendages of recently awakened universe. One that has blinked its eyes from a deep sleep and has slowly become self-aware. And just as a child born blind will at some point use their hands and discover they have a body for the first time, we are tiny (but not insignificant) appendages of that universe discovering and exploring itself, trying to make sense or what it even is.
I found immense comfort in the idea that there is no greater meaning to everything than that. We’re just a part of something bigger that is at this very moment trying to make sense of itself, and I don’t need more than that.
TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The 2C family is quite something. I love this thought though, I mean why the hell not
apotheotic@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Yeah but I get to be pretty and kiss girls how much more significant could life be
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I am the result of 14 billion years of cosmic evolution.
I am a thermodynamic miracle.
I am the waking universe looking back at itself.
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m insignificant?
Oh, thank God
millie@slrpnk.net 6 months 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.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And everyone wants to kill each other over a few grains of that dirtball
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 6 months ago
mo_lave@reddthat.com 6 months 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
baggins@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Thank you for reminding us of this. We need it more than ever at the moment.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Beautiful … thanks for posting this … Carl Sagan has always been and will always be a great inspiration for me
mo_lave@reddthat.com 6 months ago
You’re welcome
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
deus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I wonder if the flag was updated after what happened to Deimos.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 6 months ago
On Mars? TIL
freijon@lemmings.world 6 months ago
What are the 4 dots after Neptune?
groet@feddit.org 6 months 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 6 months ago
“Hey that’s where you live too cunt.”
casmael@mander.xyz 6 months ago
baggins@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Was hoping someone would do this.
casmael@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Infinite improbability drive means it’s already been done, we’re just dropping by to take a look, really
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 6 months ago
You need to cut back on the pan galactic gargle blasters mate
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Anyone fixating on size this much is definitely compensating for something.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 6 months ago
“My turds are the biggest!”
muhyb@programming.dev 6 months ago
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
literally this. there’s more cells in each human than there are human on earth.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
No reason to be so mean to J’onn J’onzz you bully.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Fail.
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months 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 6 months ago
That’s fair.
monogram@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Fuck you
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Martians say: “Fuck off!”
Yes, they speak English. They speak every Earth language and more.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yeah but what about the economy?
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
It needs to constantly go up or I’ll literally shit my pants and cry like baby.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
the economy says that you generate jobs if you develop and push forward spaceflight …
jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
bigger than I thought, tbh.