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655 points mooreds | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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Jun8 ◴[22 Oct 24 03:11 UTC] 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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kranner ◴[22 Oct 24 05:16 UTC] No.41911402[source]▶
That we can know anything at all is a miracle in itself. It could have been just fine evolutionarily for us Earth creatures to be no more than Large Action Models with no inner experience, but somehow we ended up as these perceiving, cogitating, apprehending beings.
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1. valval ◴[22 Oct 24 08:30 UTC] No.41912322[source]▶
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”