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Jun8 ◴[] No.41910854[source]
Watching this is ... hard to find the words to describe it. It's insane!

It shows us how mind bogglingly vast the universe is and how we're literally nothing compared to it. Paradoxically, it also makes me feel incredibly potent and capable as a human being in that being this small we can know so much!

Your size is to the distance of that distant spiral galaxy (420 Mly - 10e24m) as a neutrino is to you (effective cross section of a 1MeV neutron = 10e-24m: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(length))

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1. seoulmetro ◴[] No.41911331[source]
>in that being this small we can know so much!

We only know what we think we know. We could just be grains of sand in someone else's world for all we know.