Does anybody else every think about how small we really are?

Question

Think about it... You are one person in a room... now imagine floating above your house, then your city... getting farther and farther away as more of, "existance" comes into view. Then you are above your country, then the earth, then a few hundred million miles away Mars, Venus, Mercury and the Sun are in view... Float faster, the solar system, the next closest star (26 trillion miles away), then the next, and the next, then eventually the universe. As you continue to get farther out into empty space even the universe gets dimmer and dimmer until it's no longer visible. Its just you in nothingness.

It makes you feel pretty insiginificant doesn't it? This hole planet could just disappear and it wouldn't even amount to a drop of water hitting the ocean.

Good memory Darvo. I like that....

What's at the end of space? The edge of inside of a giant marble. lol

Answer 1

You realize that you might just as well go the other direction. You are made up of ten TRILLION cells each of which is a separate living entity. More than a thousand times the population of humans on the planet. Each of those cells is composed of almost uncountable molecules and atoms, and each of those might have hundreds of parts.

You can see yourself as insignificant, or you can see yourself as a universe. It all depends on your perspective. Link below for 'Powers of Ten', one of the best videos on either subject ever made (and it's only ten minutes - go watch!).

Answer 2

I certainly do. So does the great Emily Dickinson.

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—
Untouched by Morning—
And untouched by Noon—
Lie the meek members of the Resurrection—
Rafter of Satin—and Roof of Stone!

Grand go the Years—in the Crescent—above them—
Worlds scoop their Arcs—
And Firmaments—row—
Diadems—drop—and Doges—surrender—
Soundless as dots—on a Disc of Snow—

We're all quite arrogant for our beliefs of self-importance. How silly and insignificant we are when weighed against the magnificence of the eternal cosmos.

Answer 3

reminds me of the movie men in black. at the end when the galaxy is in a bag of marbles with other galaxies being used as marbles in a game of marbles.