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If you want your brain to implode and make you feebleminded...then

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bronzilla

bronzilla

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go to this site

 

http://htwins.net/scale2/

 

 

That is way cool! Thanks for the link!

 

We understand so much more about the nature of reality, than we did just a few short years ago. The universe just gets larger and larger the further technology advances. The microscopic world seems to follow suit in many ways.

 

Microverse/Macroverse theory is compelling and seems to be a real possibility. , But as our understanding of the Universe expands, we begin to realize how little we truly know. All preconceived notions of what is and is not possible, in my mind should be thrown out the window when you consider our insignifacance, compared to the universe, and our infintesimal understanding of reality.

 

We dont even understand ourselves, why we are here, were we are going.

 

How can we even hope to ever truly understand what is out there?

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bronzilla

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[font:Book Antiqua]Woooow....[/font]

 

:ohnoez:

 

Wow is right! Its almost a dizzzying efect your mind feels, and an ache, that you cant describe, unlike anything else when you try to wrap your mind around this stuff.

Its sad, its scary and its awe inspiring all in one. It creates a hunger for knowledge that you know will never be sated.

 

It depresses and it exilerates at the same time.

 

 

I need a nap.

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bronzilla

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Very nice! Thanks for the link. Someone spent a whole lotta time making that site and what a job they did!

 

14 year old twin Brothers. They made the site "for fun" :)

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Ken Aldred

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On an iPad, I can't watch the clip because it's using Flash. :(

 

Instead, I'll contribute something that I've always been blown away by - every time I look at it - Carl Sagan 's 'Pale Blue Dot' photograph, taken by Voyager 1.

 

Here's the Wiki entry.  

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot 

 

 

The  'Reflections by Sagan' section towards the bottom of the article has an interesting perspective.

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bronzilla

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Thats Beautifull! Thanks for sharing! :)

 

From the "Reflections" you mentioned:

 

In his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, the astronomer Carl Sagan related his thoughts on a deeper meaning of the photograph:[14]

 

 

 

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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 rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. 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. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

 

—Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, p. 6

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