the size of the universe in "Human Terms"

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Bernie

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"The scale of the Universe is simply astounding. The best way for the layperson to understand the distances we are dealing with is not to use words like Parsecs or light years, but rather to use easy to understand analogies."

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To be frank, I find it humbling. I also find it amazing that us people, living on that little fleck of dust, can set up a telescope in our backyard and witness this grand scale universe in action, by simply magnifying the view. We also have been given the ability to attempt to comprehend the scale of it all.
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My version: "I find it disturbing, that us people, living on that little fleck of dust, can agree that we are 1 of 9 planets rotating around the Sun, which would be a grain of sand compared to the little fleck of dust which is earth. Yet, when told that our solar system is a single member of so many galaxies that they would fill all the continents, if we were flecks of dust around a grain of sand and still, they flatout *insist* that ours is the only planet where intelligent live could exist"

Riiiighhhhhttt...
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