The Optimist Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 (edited) Hello. I made this thread for some reason. I regret doing so. Please delete it Edited January 30, 2016 by The Optimist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Phil Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 (edited) Scary thought, I know. But I've accepted it. Even so, people are important on a smaller scale, and you should be kind and pursue your dreams, if only to do it. Perhaps life only exists to make sure it exists......? Here's something scarier: Think of all of the events that HAD to happen to make sure you exist in the way you do. The events of your life. The events of your parents' lives, their parents' lives, all the way back to the first lifeform on Earth. If it didn't exist, we might not even exist. What if our sun didn't even form? What if earth didn't form? What if the Galaxy didn't exist? Well, it wouldn't matter. The rest of the universe is almost entirely unaffected. Except Andromeda, I suppose. And the closest galaxies. Edited January 30, 2016 by Bill Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Phil Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Aw man, I like getting philosophical.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HebaruSan Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 I relate to this. We're shockingly tiny, and it's crazy how many other galaxies are out there, let alone stars and planets. Even if our civilization was interstellar already, we would still have no hope of visiting any substantial percentage of what we can see. But then again, what are we comparing "it" to? Every generation of humans has had the exact same relation to the universe that we do, they just didn't know it. And as far as we can tell from observing the skies, there aren't any pan-galactic civilizations out there that have transcended these limits. To grasp for a silver lining... the game isn't over. Not by a long shot. We might have descendants for centuries, millennia, or longer, and the grand scope of the universe means that they can never possibly get bored or run out of exploring to do. Even if it takes our species, say, another twenty thousand years to gear up for exploring other star systems, they'll still be there, and the universe will barely have blinked in the meantime. Most of the stars won't even have evolved appreciably. tl;dr - I think it would be way more depressing if the universe was tiny and we had already explored all of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Closed by OP's request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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