Friday, September 17, 2010

Dude, this blows my mind.

Watch this video.

I'm now having one of those, Holy-Crap-We-Are-SO-SMALL moments. How is it that we even exist?! How is it that everything exists? So much exists! And it's SO FAR AWAY!

Clearly this video has removed my ability to articulate just about anything. So fair warning.

Okay, so some scientists decide to do a little experiment, and we point our strongest telescope at so-called nothing, blackness. And what do we see? Three thousand galaxies. Oh, cool, so what we thought was empty space is actually 3000 galaxies moving away from us in some cases faster than the speed of light. And each one of those galaxies has hundreds of billions of stars. And some of those stars have planets and goodness even knows what else. And those are just the ones we saw at that moment with the limited capabilities of one telescope.

And we are just one little planet in one little galaxy, and for heaven's sake (no pun intended) we think we are the center of it all. We think the Sun is cool?! We think the Earth is special? SPACE IS SO BIG! Just think what's out there!!! And these light specs, these photons, have been just chilling, flying through space, for billions of years. That's so long!

Omg. It doesn't even look real. I don't know what to do with myself. My brain can't even comprehend. And probably about 30 seconds after I post this I won't really care that much anymore. But seriously, how cool is this?!

Ok I'm gonna go do something with my life now besides blog on a Friday night...

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hiiiii!!!!! I miss you lots and lots. An old photo of yours popped up in my "Photo Memories" on facebook and that got me thinking about you/stalking your profile to see what you've been up to. Maybe we can skype later this weekend, but right now I should really start chipping away at my mound of homework.

I just wanted to say that I love you, and I love reading your posts because I think we think about things the same way a lot of the time (ohmygoodness we are so tiny and insignificant and know so little about everything, but at the same time we know a lot and explore and think about a lot...I could keep going but this is not very eloquent so far).

Anyway, we need to talk soon, after I finish my work, which will be never, but whatever (rhyme!).

- Sarah

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