• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      the scale is absurd for my monkey brain, its impossible for me to “get” it at all.

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      7 months ago

      Man, I think about that all the time. We aren’t even a drop in the bucket, not a blip in the history of the universe. To me that makes life immeasurably precious. We get to experience and explore a small moment of infinite vastness

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      Spatially small =/= doesn’t matter. You can’t just jump from physical characteristics to values like that. What happened to being scientific?