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these kind of things turn my head inside out. mind blowing. i hate to get all emo but it makes you think how insignificant everything is next to that eon spanning vastness.
I know pictures like these are supposed to highlight how incomprehensibly small we are in the vastness of space and all....but I find them to be counter-productive to that end.
Shit just looks like dust or phytoplankton.
Simply craning my neck and looking at a clear starry night-sky goes a lot further, for me, toward recognizing my own universal insignificance.
What boggles my mind is how space can be so empty and yet wall to wall objects.
Really challenges definitions of the terms 'empty' and 'full'.
when you really think about it, there is no such thing as "empty". There is something there, we just haven't developed the technology to "see" it.
Pretty much my thoughts too. Why all the excitement over a bunch of multi-colored light splotches on a black background? Get away from all the light pollution on a cloudless night and look up at the sky before moonrise for a much more dramatic view of the heavens.I know pictures like these are supposed to highlight how incomprehensibly small we are in the vastness of space and all....but I find them to be counter-productive to that end.
Shit just looks like dust or phytoplankton.
Simply craning my neck and looking at a clear starry night-sky goes a lot further, for me,
And, by the way, what's the virtue in broadcasting one's universal insignificance? Are we not convinced that everyone around us is already aware of it?toward recognizing my own universal insignificance.
Pretty much my thoughts too. Why all the excitement over a bunch of multi-colored light splotches on a black background? Get away from all the light pollution on a cloudless night and look up at the sky before moonrise for a much more dramatic view of the heavens.
Pretty much my thoughts too. Why all the excitement over a bunch of multi-colored light splotches on a black background? Get away from all the light pollution on a cloudless night and look up at the sky before moonrise for a much more dramatic view of the heavens.
And, by the way, what's the virtue in broadcasting one's universal insignificance? Are we not convinced that everyone around us is already aware of it?
Its a pretty lengthy read,but it puts the vastness of just our solar system in perspective.
And that journey from Mars to Jupiter is a bitch![l
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html?a