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1413 points mooreds | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | 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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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.”
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elteto ◴[22 Oct 24 11:43 UTC] No.41913314[source]▶
How arrogant and silly to look at these incredible pictures and think “Yep, this was all made for ME. I am the center of the universe!”.
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IAmGraydon ◴[22 Oct 24 13:41 UTC] No.41914169[source]▶
How arrogant for anyone to look at these incredible pictures and think they know ANYTHING at all. We may be the center of it all, we may not, this may be a massive simulation, or a massive random accident. The only correct answer is to admit we know nothing. Humans are so fixated on knowing everything.
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1. mr_mitm ◴[22 Oct 24 15:50 UTC] No.41915529[source]▶
I think this line of reasoning does a disservice to all the scientists and thinkers who contributed to a considerable amount of knowledge. We learned so much about the universe in the past 100 years, it's impudent to call this nothing just because it's not everything.
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2. IAmGraydon ◴[22 Oct 24 16:44 UTC] No.41916125[source]▶
I'm talking about filling in the blanks in things that are not yet known, not discounting all scientific progress. The point was that the person I replied to held just as irrational a belief as the person they were criticizing. Neither of them knows the deeper nature of reality and whether humanity was created by something or is just an accident of nature, so both of their replies are absurd as one another's.