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OK a few days late but, enjoyed this. I have mentioned before (Matthew Perry's death conversation) that I often enjoy Dan Piraro's insights (Bizarro comic). This is this weekend's.
"It’s natural to become transfixed with what’s going on in our personal bubbles: deadlines, debts, responsibilities, chores, ambitions, obligations, regrets, and so on. But when we note our utterly brief and microscopic existence in this infinite universe, it can change our perspective.
The image below, which I‘ve never been able to find attribution for, impressed me and made me laugh.
(here is the part that made me go hmmm)
I think our inability to see the Milky Way at night (too much ambient artificial light) has changed us. When nights were truly dark, humans were hard-pressed to ignore the billions of visible stars, which instantly connected them to something much bigger than them and their lives. It also filled the human species with wonder and mystery. Curiosity about the sky may have been the seed that gave birth to the entire field of science.
Now, even way out in the suburbs of an average city, I’d guess less than a hundred stars are still visible. It is no wonder we have so much trouble keeping a big-picture perspective on our lives.
"It’s natural to become transfixed with what’s going on in our personal bubbles: deadlines, debts, responsibilities, chores, ambitions, obligations, regrets, and so on. But when we note our utterly brief and microscopic existence in this infinite universe, it can change our perspective.
The image below, which I‘ve never been able to find attribution for, impressed me and made me laugh.
(here is the part that made me go hmmm)
I think our inability to see the Milky Way at night (too much ambient artificial light) has changed us. When nights were truly dark, humans were hard-pressed to ignore the billions of visible stars, which instantly connected them to something much bigger than them and their lives. It also filled the human species with wonder and mystery. Curiosity about the sky may have been the seed that gave birth to the entire field of science.
Now, even way out in the suburbs of an average city, I’d guess less than a hundred stars are still visible. It is no wonder we have so much trouble keeping a big-picture perspective on our lives.