There may be as many as twenty *trillion* galaxies in the universe...

[First Speaker]

...according to this website:

bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang

The old estimate was about 170,000,000,000. You'd think that would be enough, huh? But this number... I dunno. Whatever it is that we mean by "sense of wonder", whatever makes us gaze at the night sky with awe--this, to me, is the essence of that. There is a sheer numinousness about this fact that makes me feel both utterly insignificant...and, at the same time, oddly proud of our half-civilized hairless simian species. That we, despite our obvious limitations, painted the Sistine Chapel, wrote Hamlet, walked on the Moon...and can see into the very heart of the cosmos, and make determinations like this...

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Yes, we are insignificant...to the larger picture.

Always make me wonder. How the HELL could a species who creates such beauty also have the capacity for such hate.

[dweller]

2. Cool

Enough for each one of us …


don’t mind me, I’m the solipsist in the crowd of us all


✌🏻

[First Speaker]

3. Solipsism makes so much sense to me...

...that I wonder why all philosophers aren't solipsists...

[dweller]

4. Everyone else

is a such critic of it

✌🏻

[BootinUp]

5. Think of that in reverse. One trillionth of the universe is a galaxy.

[multigraincracker]

6. Human brain has a hard time with

No beginning and no end.

[live love laugh]

7. Further confirming how insignificant we are -- not just in our galaxy but the universe at large.

Puts things in perspective.

[doublethink]

8. July 12th check out the images from the James Webb Tele ...

after the J6 hearings of course.