I found a neat little webpage with some good figures on it to help people understand our insignificance in the universe. Following is a quote from part of the linked site.
Our Solar System has nine planets.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains 400 billion stars.
The Universe contains at least 130 billion galaxies.
Therefore, the number of stars in the cosmos is 400 times 130 or 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (50,000 billion billion).
All of the sand on the beaches of the earth total 2,000 billion, billion grains.
Toss a handful of sand into the air and the number of sand grains you see will approximate the number of stars in the visible Milky Way at night. "
I just can't understand how anyone who knows these facts can believe that this is all about us, and that some supreme entity created it all just for the sake of putting a bunch of primates on our tiny little pebble of a planet.
http://www.alan-miller.org/getting-things-right/
2007-05-04
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