If it exploded tomorrow....would it make a difference?
2007-08-04 15:23:36 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
It's estimated that there could be 100 billion stars and a billion billion planets, so...yeah, we're pretty useless when it comes to the universe as a whole.
2007-08-04 15:33:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
To the Universe I doubt we have any significance. After all, how important could we be if we're described as 'mostly harmless'? ;-)
If it exploded tomorrow, it would only matter to us. And maybe to someone else if a piece of our planet crashed into theirs at some point in the future.
2007-08-05 01:34:27 · answer #2 · answered by Kharm 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Our Earth is only important to us.... Give it up for â¥Gnostic⥠- ten point and thumbs up, too. She's got the answer nailed.
Gosh. I hope your explosion notion doesn't happen. Where would we go... certainly not heaven or hell.?!
( To dreamdress2 & rebecca v d liep: Do you ever wish you could think as clearly and as well as â¥Gnostic⥠does? She really left you and your childish answers in the 2000 year old biblical dust, didn't she....?! Maybe it's a sign to move your brains into the current year, eh? Falling a month behind or even a year.... Well, no big deal.... but gee whiz, two 2000 years behind the times is a tad much, isn't it?)
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2007-08-05 01:49:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our civilization is of absolutely no consequence in the universe. We are a tiny planet around a smallish type G2 star in an arm of the milky-way galaxy where there are billions of stars. The Milky-way is an average galaxy in the local group of Galaxy's which is in itself part of a super group of Galaxy's. There are millions of Super groups.
Infinity = really big.
Still God loves us.
â¥Blessed Beâ¥
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2007-08-04 22:34:02 · answer #4 · answered by gnosticv 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think the answer is that we don't know. There are millions of galaxies out there, each with billions of stars. Is it possible that we are the first and only truly intelligent creatures in all of that? If so, then it would make Earth pretty significant in one sense... but it seems unlikely.
2007-08-04 22:27:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you think about the big picture like that, it doesn't make that much difference to the universe at all. I think Carl Sagan said things best in Pale Blue Dot.
2007-08-04 22:48:01 · answer #6 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it would make a huge difference to us.
if the planet exploded i'm sure that it would have an impact on our solar system. perhaps even our galaxy, but to the universe...who can say?
just my thoughts
2007-08-04 23:01:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
By comparison, Earth is like a grain of sand on an entire beach. Religion wants people to think that it's the only grain of sand.
2007-08-04 22:30:28 · answer #8 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It would make a huge difference to those of us who live here.
Your excellent question certainly puts it into perspective though. In the grand scheme of the universe, our visiting the moon is minuscule.
2007-08-04 22:27:45 · answer #9 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Only if you don't believe in God.
p.s. not to be mean or anything but there is scientific evidence that suggest the universe is actually finite.
2007-08-04 22:26:20 · answer #10 · answered by scholar_wood 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋