Space in the universe

[Curiousoutlook]

Every time I think of space and the universe, it makes me wants to ctb even more and nothing matters. We humans are literally nothing compared to what is really out there. Please take a look at this video on YouTube:




The space is so big and there are thousands or millions of planets and stars upon galaxies and galaxies into who knows how many universe. We as human literally dont mean anything and we can be compared to the size as germs in comparison with space. I always have questions about space and what is out there, but I guess that is a question I'll never be able to get answers for.

 

[Makko]

Rather than "nothing matters" it makes me think that we're a part of something big and important.

 

[Curiousoutlook]

Rather than "nothing matters" it makes me think that we're a part of something big and important.

Possibly, but that's something we will never find out.

 

[Squalo]

we are also insignificant compared to our planet which is about 4.50 billion years old; in all this time the Earth has seen infinite species born and extinguished, we will become extinct like everyone else, and other sentient creatures will take our place.

 

[checkouttime]

I watched a program the other day 'brian coxs adventures in space and time' in one of the programs he explains how eventually(many trillions of years) there will be actual NOTHING that exists!!! quite interesting to be fair!!!

 

[Curiousoutlook]

I watched a program the other day 'brian coxs adventures in space and time' in one of the programs he explains how eventually(many trillions of years) there will be actual NOTHING that exists!!! quite interesting to be fair!!!

Interesting. I can see why he says that as stars dies after certain time, but then new star can also form so, hmm.

 

[Superdeterminist]

I agree. If we really mattered then we shouldn't be so cosmically insignificant. On top of that, I think that if we really mattered then we wouldn't suffer, but we do so...

 

[checkouttime]

Interesting. I can see why he says that as stars dies after certain time, but then new star can also form so, hmm.

yes thats exactly what he was saying, that even black holes eventually will disappear and then it will be nothing. i hadn't heard that before. there was actually some really interesting stuff in the series aswell

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

Every time I think of space and the universe, it makes me wants to ctb even more and nothing matters. We humans are literally nothing compared to what is really out there. Please take a look at this video on YouTube:




The space is so big and there are thousands or millions of planets and stars upon galaxies and galaxies into who knows how many universe. We as human literally dont mean anything and we can be compared to the size as germs in comparison with space. I always have questions about space and what is out there, but I guess that is a question I'll never be able to get answers for.

These videos show that just the next nearest star, after the Sun is unimaginably far away. He scales the distance of the Earth to the Sun 149 million kilometers to just 70 centimeters: then the nearest star would be hundreds of kilometers away :






So that's just the nearest star ( not the sun but the next one) . so it boggles the mind how far the farthest stars are in just this galaxy the milky way. and then how far other galaxies are. Plus the expansion of the universe is accelerating show to me that the universe will expand into nothingness.

 

[Curiousoutlook]

This videos shows that just the next nearest star, after the Sun are unimaginably far away. He scales the distance of the Earth to the Sun 92 million miles to just a 70 centimeters: then the nearest star would be hundreds of kilometers away :

It just proves how small and irrelevant we are.

 

[checkouttime]

It just proves how small and irrelevant we are.

exactly, there are billions of planets etc out there. Thats why i think its naive to think we are the only ones here!!!

 

[Makko]

It just proves how small and irrelevant we are.

Irrelevant to what exactly? I feel pretty relevant from my own perspective. Because there exist space rocks far away doesn't change that.

 

[Lmd]

I like to think and fantasize of all the unexplored planets and how we know nothing about anything. This makes me a bit sad because I'll die before I can experience something like that. Even a big and relevant discovery seems far considering the lack of resources putting in science.

That we are small doesn't imply that we are insignificant. We form part of it.

 

[Deleted_9cKnXB34QG]

If only humans could get rid of their big egos, maybe we could take a step back, look at the bigger picture and stop taking life so seriously.
The fact that we're nothing more than some semi-evolved apes on a piece of rock floating in space so big that our brain can't even comprehend the scale, can be as freeing as it is depressing.

 

[Curiousoutlook]

Irrelevant to what exactly? I feel pretty relevant from my own perspective. Because there exist space rocks far away doesn't change that.

We're looking at a different perspective.

 

[motel rooms]

I'm as indifferent to the universe as the universe is indifferent to me. Life is

 

[Superdeterminist]

If only humans could get rid of their big egos, maybe we could take a step back, look at the bigger picture and stop taking life so seriously.
The fact that we're nothing more than some semi-evolved apes on a piece of rock floating in space so big that our brain can't even comprehend the scale, can be as freeing as it is depressing.

I disagree. I don't feel free at all, I only find it unrelentingly frustrating that we continue to suffer in our ignorance, mainly from diseases of all kinds but also from other problems like violence etc. I don't think there's anything fun about not knowing solutions to problems.

 

[motel rooms]

I don't think there's anything fun about not knowing solutions to problems.

Your problem is that you're under the illusion there are problems

 

[Curiousoutlook]

Your problem is that you're under the illusion there are problems

Being alive is the problem

 

[motel rooms]

Being alive is the problem

You're just under the illusion that you're alive

 

[Makko]

We're looking at a different perspective.

Which is? "The universe" isn't its own thing and doesn't have its own perspective. Even if it did, I don't see the point in putting yourself in the universe's shoes. Do you beat yourself up over the fact that your body isn't a star and can't perform nuclear fusion? Would you like to be as big as a galactic cluster so that you get to be on a space map? What exactly is the issue?

 

[Curiousoutlook]

Which is? "The universe" isn't its own thing and doesn't have its own perspective. Even if it did, I don't see the point in putting yourself in the universe's shoes. Do you beat yourself up over the fact that your body isn't a star and can't perform nuclear fusion? Would you like to be as big as a galactic cluster so that you get to be on a space map? What exactly is the issue?

I never said the universe has a perspective. I'm saying im viewing space and universe in a different perspective than you are. We humans are so small compared to what is out there besides us. We are so small that comparing in this planets view and ratio, what we see in this planet is like the universe and the germ is us. What if someone just dies. It doesn't even matter. It all irrelevant.

 

[Curiousoutlook]

Personally, I take comfort in the fact that I am little more than a microscopic speck of dust in the cosmos (and even that is perhaps an exaggeration of my presence in this enormous universe). I don't want to be important. I don't want to be significant. I don't want to matter. I just want to die and fade into nothingness. Recognising how little my existence and its end means in the grand scheme of things is refreshing and reassuring.

Except no one really matters. Everyone is the same as any others. You will die eventually and you won't matter at the end. Not like anyone matters to begin with. You will be forgotten eventually.

 

[Fatal Femme]

exactly, there are billions of planets etc out there. Thats why i think its naive to think we are the only ones here!!!

Yeah. The Fermi Paradox never really sat right with me, because there could be so many explanations for why we haven't come across extraterrestrial life up until this point. There's also the possibility of there being multiverses, and god knows what else... I mean, we only really know what we've observed. But what about what we haven't observed, and what could be entirely beyond our reach and scope of recognition?

 

[watchingthewheels]

"We're so small, and the universe is so big! We don't matter!"
Blah blah blah. Heard that a million times. What a ridiculous standard to judge meaning and worth.

"Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?"- Willy Wonka (after Shakespeare)

 

[Curiousoutlook]

"We're so small, and the universe is so big! We don't matter!"
Blah blah blah. Heard that a million times. What a ridiculous standard to judge meaning and worth.

"Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?"- Willy Wonka (after Shakespeare)

Because you know deep down it true whether you want to admit it or not.

Yeah. The Fermi Paradox never really sat right with me, because there could be so many explanations for why we haven't come across extraterrestrial life up until this point. There's also the possibility of there being multiverses, and god knows what else... I mean, we only really know what we've observed. But what about what we haven't observed, and what could be entirely beyond our reach and scope of recognition?

Humans can only comprehend what they know just like colors. For all we know, there's something exist that we can't even imagine. Aliens can look like a totally different thing than the stereotype aliens we think of. Aliens is literally anything that is not from earth. Can be anything

 

[watchingthewheels]

Because you know deep down it true whether you want to admit it or not.

Speak for yourself all you want, but don't tell ME what I supposedly know "deep down."


"The meaning of the sight lay in the fact that when those dark red wings of fire flared open, one knew that one was not looking at a normal occurrence, but at a cataclysm which, if unleashed by nature, would have wiped man out of existence—and one knew also that this cataclysm was planned, unleashed, and controlled by man, that this unimaginable power was ruled by his power and, obediently serving his purpose, was making way for a slender, rising craft.

"One knew that this spectacle was not the product of inanimate nature, like some aurora borealis, or of chance, or of luck, that it was unmistakably human—with 'human,' for once, meaning grandeur—that a purpose and a long, sustained, disciplined effort had gone to achieve this series of moments, and that man was succeeding, succeeding, succeeding! For once, if only for seven minutes, the worst among those who saw it had to feel—not 'How small is man by the side of the Grand Canyon!'—but 'How great is man and how safe is nature when he conquers it!'"

Ayn Rand, "Apollo 11", THE VOICE OF REASON

 

[Makko]

I never said the universe has a perspective. I'm saying im viewing space and universe in a different perspective than you are. We humans are so small compared to what is out there besides us. We are so small that comparing in this planets view and ratio, what we see in this planet is like the universe and the germ is us. What if someone just dies. It doesn't even matter. It all irrelevant.

You're not answering my question. It's all irrelevant to what? You're small compared to big space rocks far away? How are the space rocks relevant to you?

 

[Fatal Femme]

Humans can only comprehend what they know just like colors. For all we know, there's something exist that we can't even imagine. Aliens can look like a totally different thing than the stereotype aliens we think of. Aliens is literally anything that is not from earth. Can be anything

I think when people refer to an alien being, they're talking moreso about something that is aware of itself. Such lifeforms would probably have to have an intricate nervous system of some sort. We're not talking about molecular structures, but actual entities capable of advanced cognitive function

 

[Curiousoutlook]

I think when people refer to an alien being, they're talking moreso about something that is aware of itself. Such lifeforms would probably have to have an intricate nervous system of some sort. We're not talking about molecular structures, but actual entities capable of advanced cognitive function

Yes, I did meant living intelligence

You're not answering my question. It's all irrelevant to what? You're small compared to big space rocks far away? How are the space rocks relevant to you?

Irrelevant to anything. You live you die. Majority of the people in this world just work until they die. Modern day slave

Speak for yourself all you want, but don't tell ME what I supposedly know "deep down."


"The meaning of the sight lay in the fact that when those dark red wings of fire flared open, one knew that one was not looking at a normal occurrence, but at a cataclysm which, if unleashed by nature, would have wiped man out of existence—and one knew also that this cataclysm was planned, unleashed, and controlled by man, that this unimaginable power was ruled by his power and, obediently serving his purpose, was making way for a slender, rising craft.

"One knew that this spectacle was not the product of inanimate nature, like some aurora borealis, or of chance, or of luck, that it was unmistakably human—with 'human,' for once, meaning grandeur—that a purpose and a long, sustained, disciplined effort had gone to achieve this series of moments, and that man was succeeding, succeeding, succeeding! For once, if only for seven minutes, the worst among those who saw it had to feel—not 'How small is man by the side of the Grand Canyon!'—but 'How great is man and how safe is nature when he conquers it!'"

Ayn Rand, "Apollo 11", THE VOICE OF REASON

Idk why you're quoting these stuff