26 Pictures Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence...

[TeeYiYi]

The universe, man… THE UNIVERSE.

1. This is the Earth! This is where you live.



2. And this is where you live in your neighborhood, the solar system.



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17. Which means that there are ones much, much bigger than little wimpy sun. Just look at how tiny and insignificant our sun is:



18. Here’s another look. The biggest star, VY Canis Majoris, is 1,000,000,000 times bigger than our sun:



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22. But even our galaxy is a little runt compared with some others. Here’s the Milky Way compared to IC 1011, 350 million light years away from Earth:



For your Sunday viewing pleasre, be sure to check out all 26 images... http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-universe-is-scary

This may have already been posted but it's the first time for me. Enjoy.

TYY

[stone space]

1. OK, I've seen them and have reevaluated my existence.

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I've decided that I am Pure Mathematics.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. Now look again while stoned....

You will be one with your navel.

[edhopper]

2. And yet God

Only actively interceded in a remote part of the middle east with a few tribal people for a very, very short time a few thousand years ago and then disappeared.

[truebluegreen]

5. Gosh darn waste of space, eh?

[edhopper]

8. I have been told that is true

of me as well

[Moostache]

22. My thoughts exactly...

With the immense distances and sheer scale of the universe, I always want to ask smug fundamentalists and religious people - "out of all of THIS, your "god" is overly concerned with what orifices a specific penis might be inserted?"

IF (and for me its not even a remote possibility) there is a supreme being, there is no way that our species was even part of the "plan", mysterious or otherwise. The Earth and all of its inhabitants - by the trillions from microbe to man - are utterly inconsequential to the universe."

One of my favorite passages from Stephen King's work is from the Gunslinger (Dark Tower Book One):
"The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness of space. The child: What is beyond space? The father: The galaxy. The child: Beyond the galaxy? The father: Another galaxy. The child: Beyond the other galaxies? The father: No one knows.

"You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box abd cover it with wet weeds to die?"

[hlthe2b]

3. Yup... puts things in true perspective... My favorite app is the Living Earth app that I use

as an alarm clock (as well as weather to the hour indicator) on my iphone. I do love looking at that big earth rotating and ever changing with the seasons...

Life is short and we are very small in the big picture.

[seveneyes]

4. Contemplating infinity is time consuming

A recursive dream is only the beginning.

[rhett o rick]

13. Hey man, we are doing a lot more of that here in the Great State of Washington the State.

[jtuck004]

19. Have you ever really looked at your infinity? I mean really looked, man? lol n/t

[ZombieHorde]

6. I'm a nihilist, so these just affirm my biases.

Thanks for posting.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says "You are here."

...
"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.

And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex - just to show her.

And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

http://www.earthstar.co.uk/vortex.htm

(Douglas Adams' Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of course)

[MrMickeysMom]

9. This puts us in per spectate, TY...

Thanks for the post.

I'm currently trying to wrap my mind around a recently presented "multiverse" theory - an infinite number of universes!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. We're only important in the universe because we tell ourselves we are.

Kind of like the proverbial flea riding on an elephant's forehead that believes he's driving.

[randome]

12. Oh yeah? Ever see a flea circus? Those suckers (pun) are pretty damned smart!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. "Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can." Mark Twain

[pinboy3niner]

16. "Little known fact: Fleas invented the internet." --A. Lincoln

Oh, wait...I think that was Cliff Claven. My bad.

[cwydro]

11. Very cool!

Wish I knew how to post that elsewhere.

[NewJeffCT]

14. really puts things in perspective

and, makes it seem (IMHO) that it's almost impossible that there is not more life out there.

[subterranean]

17. Noticed an optical illusion in #6.

Stare at the six Earths in image #6. Is it just me, or do they appear to move slightly?

[heaven05]

18. yep, I've examined our known universe

for many years now and I do love it. Looking through my telescope is one of the few things that helps me keep my sanity and humanity on this planet inhabited by a violent, ignorant species that likes to think of itself as the top of the food chain. I always chuckle at the thought we may one day get a wake up call that will say to that notion, BULLSHIT!!!! One of the others things that helps are the truly compassionate, good human beings from all races and cultures who do care about our planet but who seem to be dwindling to an endangered minority.

[tooeyeten]

21. Awesome! Does that mean

Donald Trump finally realizes how insignificant he is in the scheme of life? How about that kook Limbaugh?

[WinkyDink]

23. I have taken to saying to myself, "Self, you are walking on a PLANET!" That's pretty amazing!

[BeanMusical]

24. Wow, we sure are insignificant.

I wonder what's going on around all those stars and inside all these galaxies.

[gregcrawford]

25. Talk about putting things in perspective!

And there are those who think humans are the unique Masters of the Universe?!!? Please...

[helpmetohelpyou]

26. Makes you apprecate the wonder of God

[Arugula Latte]

27. No, no! These have left out the key component! See, the most important part of the universe is

a magical dead white guy carpenter from the Middle East of 2,000 years ago who hovers over planet Earth, the most important planet in the most important galaxy in a universe of billions of galaxies! And we humans are the most important life forms in the entire universe even though we've only been around for a tiny fraction of cosmic existence!

[hfojvt]

28. nah, it's cool

I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, baby.

[yellowcanine]

29. I have seen the pictures. When does the "reevaluation" part kick in?

Do drugs help with that?

[greiner3]

30. Here's what happens/happened to VY Canis Majoris;

[niyad]

31. and then, to put all that into perspective, we have the ending credit scene in MIB1!