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[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 24 points 3 months ago

You're nothing and nothing matters and that's ok. It's beautiful.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the scale is absurd for my monkey brain, its impossible for me to "get" it at all.

[-] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Man, I think about that all the time. We aren't even a drop in the bucket, not a blip in the history of the universe. To me that makes life immeasurably precious. We get to experience and explore a small moment of infinite vastness

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We are stardust, we are golden

We are billion year old carbon

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Spatially small =/= doesn't matter. You can't just jump from physical characteristics to values like that. What happened to being scientific?

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