Just thought I would highlight an excellent post made on the View from the Edge<\/a> blog, titled “feeling insignificant yet?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

It begins with a quote from Douglas Adams so you know it is probably going to be good \ud83d\ude42 , and follows up with this:<\/p>\n

Carl Sagan used to say the universe contained \u00e2\u20ac\u0153billions and billions of stars\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and also that if we are the only intelligent life in the universe, then what a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctremendous waste of space.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The following pictures are one of the best visual depictions of that I have ever seen, and it shows pretty clearly just how insignificant this little blue orb actually is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you have ever wondered how big the Earth is in relation to other planets or stars – check it out. Even if you haven’t check it out anyway \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

[tags]Space, stars, planets, Douglas Adams, Carl Sagan, Science, Astronomy, Cosmology, Universe, Scale[\/tags]<\/p>\n

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