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DontBooVote

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3. I had an existential moment yesterday, that feeling when you realize we actually exist, that

Reply to Princess Turandot (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2019, 09:43 AM

Apr 2019

reality is real, but how?

And part of that was the realization that we inhabit a ball of rock and gas that is orbiting a star that is orbiting a galaxy that is just one of infinitely countless galaxies in a vast universe that may be just one of many.

When I saw this image, I was blown away. Sure, it's just pixels of light and dark but it is an actual image of a celestial object(?) that I have been fascinated about since I was a child.

Very cool!

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Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinated Observations [View all] Princess Turandot Apr 2019 OP

Truly amazing that we can observe this! MineralMan Apr 2019 #1

super cool. mopinko Apr 2019 #2

I had an existential moment yesterday, that feeling when you realize we actually exist, that DontBooVote Apr 2019 #3