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October 05, 2010
Sometimes, A Little Perspective...
...is all you need to truly understand your relative importance in the grand order of things.
We really are little tiny bits of nothing as far as the Universe is concerned.
I had an astronomy prof way back in college who described the size of the Earth in this way: "The solar system is composed of our Star and the gas-giant planet Jupiter. The remaining 1% of the mass is miscellaneous leftover crap."
Check out the size of our humble little Sun compared Antares!