So insignificant..

[Ramsus]

Have you ever seen something that took you breathe away.. brought tears to your eyes as you realize just how overwhelming it really is?

This just had that impact on me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg

[Szaris]

OK, I admit, I watched the whole thing waiting for the Energizer Bunny to pop out, or something like that. When that didn't happen, I had to watch it again and actually listen...

And it's truly mind-boggling when you realize how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things.

[Argon]

I totally agree. Iwas looking for a scary face or maybe the dots to form the ''face of god'' or something. So went back and paid attention second time around. How humbling.

[Modalex]

Someone over on the sk boards posted this pic.



http://www.imap.net/images/1-5_cosmos.jpg

[Argon]

Can you imagine the vast distance needed for a planet to be livable around those last few stars? The planatary year would be something to the tune of 100 earth years I would think. Magnificent and humbling all at the same time. And people have the audacity to think we are the only intelligence out there.

[Pekuokole]

Stunning! Breathtaking!

[Zarrdan]

<---- Has the audacity!

[Catweazel]

It is statistically improbable (which means impossible but cannot be proven) that humans are the only life in the universe.

I was once given a "real world" example of the size of the Universe:

Imagine that Planet Earth is a grain of sand on a beach anywhere in the world. The Universe is represented by all the grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. It is almost a certainty that there is indeed another planet with life on it, the issue for us is firstly that we don't know which beach to look on and secondly that even if we find the right beach we won't live ling enough (as a society) to search all grains of sand on that beach.

[Pekuokole]

yeah.... and on that grain of sand called Earth.... imagine 6,779,059,765 people.
/boggled