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My favorite image.
#1
My favorite image.
What are the odds that our existence was possible due to pure chance?

http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/zoomable/

I'm asserting that we are so infinitely insignificant in our scale, that what we do here on this tiny rock has no bearing whatsoever in the grandness of the universe. To think that some cosmological power gives a single fuck, let alone actively plays a role in our everyday life IS ABSURD TO ME!

We, as a phenomena, are just a result of one of the many possible things that can happen, have happened, are happening, and will happen in this universe. BUT THAT IS SO INCREDIBLE! Just looking at those stars, and comprehending that they are trillions upon trillions of miles away and apart from each other, yet connected by the photons that took billions of years to reach your retinas, is A W E S O M E!

Keeping in mind that the image above is a single galaxy, in the image below, every speck of light is a galaxy.

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/69095...1237a1.jpg

tl;dr: SCIENCE!
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#2
RE: My favorite image.
Cool pics. I also appreciate the vastness of this universe.

Interesting to imagine that if string theory is correct (which it quite possibly is), then the level of scale gets multiplied even further, not sure how we'd take pics of different universes though.

*edit* Not sure why this is in the Religion sub-forum though xD
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#3
RE: My favorite image.
Yeah, was gonna go on about religion, but I got too caught up in space. http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m55pfm54011r13ra2.gif
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#4
RE: My favorite image.
Humans love to think they are important, Ike. Hell. They even invented gods to tell them how wonderful they were.
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