We really are insegnificant

[Gooders1002]

This is amazing it shows how big the universe really in in layman terms and how small is the smallest thing is.
http://htwins.net/scale2/
Warning: Only use if you have a spare 15 mins.

[Something completely different]

I have Sagans Cosmos on DVD and "The Ascent of Man"


You cant feel more insignificant after watching this.

[Violet]

I don't feel remotely insignificant, but then I'm not one to necessarily base significance off of 'how big is it' or 'how far does it reach'

[Something completely different]

Oh I feel very importent and absolutly significant.

After all I am from the master race

[Dee Dee Ramone]

Oh I feel very importent and absolutly significant.

After all I am from the master race

Yet you feel impotent?

[Something completely different]

Since you are dutch, you might be able to understand this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9_uWnAs_OI

[Ryantology]

If the universe is a giant, enormous, magnificently dumb machine, as appears to be the case, then I, and all other sentient beings, are significant in our own way. The Sun is far larger than I am, contains enough energy to instantly reduce me to atomic dust without anyone noticing, powers all life on earth and controls the destinies of trillions of objects affected by its orbit... but it can only overpower me. It cannot think, it cannot imagine, and it cannot invent. Of all the objects which have ever escaped solar orbit for any reason, the Voyager probe is the only one which has done so according to design.

That's not to say that my brains are anything remarkable compared with other humans, they surely are not. But, human sentience is, as far as we can tell, a very special and unique thing, and even if it turns out that it is not entirely unique, the relatively insignificant amount of mass in this universe which makes thinking brains, all the thinking brains, anywhere in the universe, regardless of their limitations, is in a sense more significant than all the mass making up giant stars and galaxies.

But, what is my insignificant opinion worth, anyway?

[Zone]

If the universe is a giant, enormous, magnificently dumb machine, as appears to be the case.

It does appear to be the case but then it was deliberately crafted by all powerful being in order so there will be people in it to worship him. And if you do that, a certain way, you then be rewarded after you die with eternal nice whatever goes on. Argument from fine tuning because we all know that machines are intelligently designed.

[Confused Ape]

This makes our own little galaxy seem really insignificant.

Biggest Thing In The Universe Found.

[Cinjin]

http://htwins.net/scale2/

After getting the visual of the spec on a spec on a spec that we all are, it seems rather stupid to be asking a god if it's ok to mow your lawn on Sundays.

Just sayin.