How small we are.

[Xalos]

We live on Earth, which lies in the Sol system, which is orbiting around in the Milky Way galaxy.
Our galaxy is in your friendly neighborhood supercluster, Virgo.



This image is to scale.


Talk about how small we are.

[Ad Bot]

[Planr]

pretty fancy eh

[Kumquat]

I feel very large still.

[Acid]

I feel very large still.

Me too

if you know what i mean

HEH HEH

[Kumquat]

Me too

if you know what i mean

HEH HEH

Im afraid I dont know what you mean.

[yuhwryu]

Im afraid I dont know what you mean.

snake size joke

huehuehue

[Mecha]

Not shown: Wii U controller (just outside of the observable universe)

[Alteration]

Not shown: Gabe Newell (Outer Layer of the Universe)

[dkamm65]

I was thinking about something. Size is a matter of perspective, right? What if we're not small, but rather absolutely massive.

Think of it this way, the smallest pieces of matter we know of are quarks. Shouldn't the default scale of the universe be at that level? To a non-physical outside observer of the universe, what scale would they see things at?

[BanishedLetters]

i don't understand how we could be the only living things in that amount of space.

it seems so weird to think that there are no aliens...

[Planr]

i don't understand how we could be the only living things in that amount of space.

it seems so weird to think that there are no aliens...

it means the planets are ours to colonize and explore :)

[Extrude]

I like how the image in the OP doesn't explain that the Virgo Supercluster is like 100 galaxies.

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Not shown: Gabe Newell (Outer Layer of the Universe)

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[dkamm65]

i don't understand how we could be the only living things in that amount of space.

We're not. Anyone that thinks we are is a fool.

[Planr]

We're not. Anyone that thinks we are is a fool.

And a man who professes himself to be wise is a fool. It's a good guess as any to believe there are aliens out there, but there's just as much proof as whether or not the world will end in 2012.

Also I like it how when people disagree with you that automatically makes them stupid. It's like CoolKoopaTroopa and his "known idiots list".