So... how big are your problems NOW? (Pic)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Kinda puts it all into a new perspective, doesn't it.

[ironflange]

1. It's great living in a barred spiral

Tuff shit, all you irregular and elliptical galaxy losers! And you suckers in plain spirals, too!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Damned straight.

The Milky Way kicks ass.

I'd still like to know how they got that camera way up there to take that snap.... :shrug:

:rofl:

[jeff30997]

2. We really live in a shitty suburb of the Galaxy.

I wanna go to the center where the action is!

[FloridaJudy]

31. You wouldn't survive there

Unless Chernobyl is your idea of a health spa.

[elshiva]

3. Pretty puny.

[Heidi]

5. .

:thumbsup:

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

6. thanks, actually.

[ironflange]

7. This just in -- image has been updated

[some guy]

8. Same size

:shrug:

It doesn't really matter that I'm essentially a tiny, invisible speck in the cosmos. I'm still the only me I have, and the problems I have are the same problems regardless, since I'm not likely to significantly change my place in the cosmos.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. Ahh, but "not likely" does NOT mean "impossible".

It's only up to you- and all of us who root for you and try to help you.

[some guy]

23. meh

Given the size of the cosmos, if I moved exactly to the other side of the world, it wouldn't be measurable on a cosmic scale. I don't think humans have the technology to move a ship a significant distance on a cosmic scale.

Apart from changes to physical location, my life and everything I may accomplish during it, is again something insignificant in terms of cosmological time.

Having ruled out significant change as likely in terms of time and space, I come back to my place in this world and the personal reach I have to be able to influence it any way. And so I return to my problems, whatever they are, and they retain the size and difficulty of solution they had before I contemplated cosmological significance.

:)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

28. I dub thee "Captain Bringdown".

You're as good as you think you are. Me, I'm MAGNIFICENT.

:evilgrin:

[some guy]

34. Thank you

I think I'm just fine. I think I have a good sense of relativity and perspective.

I apologize if I "brought you down", it wasn't my intent.

:pals:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six...

There's nothing quite like looking at the entire galaxy to realize how insignificant our problems truly are...

Thank you, sweetie...:hug:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. I think that's what they call "The Big Picture".

Betcha didn't think it would be quite THAT big...

:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Of course the galaxie's big!

Whatever are you talking about? :evilgrin:

:rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. Oh, you naughty girl, you.

I'll never tell...

:yourock:

[The Straight Story]

12. Not as big as my creditor's now, why should I pay em when they are but a speck on the ass of the

universe? :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. *raises hand*

Who took that picture?

:popcorn:

[Heidi]

16. :poopcorn:

The Intelligent Designer took it. He's entering it in the County Fair's 4-H Photography Contest.

:popcorn:

[ghostsofgiants]

19. Haha, poopcorn.

:P

[Heidi]

22. There's a :poopcorn: smiley around here somewhere.

CMW made it a couple of years ago, but I can't find it. :yoiks:

[ghostsofgiants]

24. Hahaha...

Reminds me of when I was in high school, the student council organized a movie night which was to have free popcorn, but they misspelled it as "poopcorn" but my friend who was on the council decided to run with it and taped the poster to his chest, and walked around school like a town crier announcing the movie night with free poopcorn. Good times, haha.

[Heidi]

26. Too funny!

Your student council friend has remarkable marketing insight. :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Haha, the turnout was pretty good if memory serves correctly.

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. What category?

:popcorn:

[Heidi]

32. Digital: artistic manipulation

by a 4-H member 6,000 years old or younger.

:poopcorn:

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. The Intelligent Designer manipulates?

I'm not sure which is more dismaying — that or that it's a 4-H member. :cry:

[Heidi]

37. .

:hug: :loveya: :smoochcorn:

[otherlander]

15. We are losing the game of actual pingpong with the abyss.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

21. As it's so succinctly stated in the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics:

"Chaos rules." (Somewhat paraphrased....)

In the meantime, however, I think we may still have a tic or two left on the ol' cosmic clock...

[ghostsofgiants]

18. ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKU73gxTdlk

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

25. Love it. Thanks.

Reminds me of the opening scene in Contact. One of my favorite movie scenes ever.

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Acually this is the one I meant to post...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1jd8AgjP9k

But the other one has Morgan Freeman, so it's all good, haha.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

33. Funny how the Earth fits so neatly into that box.

Thanks. Great stuff!

[Mojambo]

20. And I STILL can't find a place to park. n/t

[Heidi]

38. "DAMN! I have _no_ parking karma."

One of the funniest things I've ever overhead. :rofl: :spray:

[LSK]

35. we are in a giant toilet bowl in the dark???

:shrug:

[qnr]

39. Wow. We're special - the galaxy has a giant yellow marker pointing

us out!