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Some of that zooming in made me feel pretty damn uncomfortable. It really is f'ing massive out there huh. Makes me wonder what this is all about, I'm sure it's something, I wonder what. :)
It’s even more “massive” down below. There are only 27 orders of magnitude between human size and the size of the observable universe, but 35 orders of magnitude between human size and the Planck length. ;)
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Do people actually call the Sun "Sol"? I thought that was more of a video game thing.
The Romance languages use that name (or something very closely related). English uses "Sun", but just as it borrows a ton of stuff from Latin/French/etc., it also borrows "Sol" for its word "solar". Also, Captain Archer in Enterprise used the name Sol when making contact with aliens.
In PIE it's sunnōn. In some languages that evolved to some variation of sun or son, in some to became sol (notably Latin). And many use both variations in some capacity
We're just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
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How arrogant and silly to look at these incredible pictures and think “Yep, this was all made for ME. I am the center of the universe!”.
How arrogant for anyone to look at these incredible pictures and think they know ANYTHING at all. We may be the center of it all, we may not, this may be a massive simulation, or a massive random accident. The only correct answer is to admit we know nothing. Humans are so fixated on knowing everything.
Fun to imagine someone or something out there mapping us as well. What a cool video. I think one of the best things about space travel will be the loss of ego we go through when we really understand how vast the world is.
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How arrogant and silly to look at these incredible pictures and think “Yep, this was all made for ME. I am the center of the universe!”.
Q1: What is the chief end of man? Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever. The Christian belief is that creation was made for God and not the other way around. It's actually profoundly not focused on the self.
But all this makes sense when you realize it’s a primitive human myth made by primitive people with limited understanding of the universe and the world around them.
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I think that too. That it's surely meant to be something. But sometimes I think what does "meaning" even mean? Does universe really have any "meaning", the term that humans invented and that even they are unsure of? Then, I think it's a big randomness, a random accident, a big joke, just happening with nothing to make sense of.
I don't think the universe can have "meaning" in the human sense, because any potential "meaning" is outside of our field of observation or understanding. If something indeed created the universe or some definitive sequence of events spurred it into existence, I think that would constitute "meaning" enough for humans to be satisfied. But there is almost certainly not way to observe that fact because it is outside of…
They even got as far as describing God as "uncaused causality" centuries ago, which lined up pretty well with the translation of the name God reportedly gave one of their forbearers from a burning bush, "I am who am," or colloquially, "I'm the one who just is. I am being-itself, not contingent in any way, outside your concepts of 'before' or 'contingent upon.'"
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Q1: What is the chief end of man? Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever. The Christian belief is that creation was made for God and not the other way around. It's actually profoundly not focused on the self.
Well, creation was made for one god, which happens to look just like us and never once mentions other peoples. To be a Christian astronomer you have to believe one of these: 1. God is wasting the vast, vast, vast majority of the universe on emptiness while he focuses on his fave planet. 2. The universe is full of humans, in which case Jesus is presumably getting re-crucified every few seconds to absolve new groups. O…
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Q1: What is the chief end of man? Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever. The Christian belief is that creation was made for God and not the other way around. It's actually profoundly not focused on the self.
It actually is incredibly human-centered, to the point that humans were made in _his_ image and the Sun is supposed to turn _around_ the Earth. But all this makes sense when you realize it’s a primitive human myth made by primitive people with limited understanding of the universe and the world around them.
I don’t really get the point that you’re making.