Sunday, January 14, 2007

Unfathomable

This scale comparison shows "the true place" of Earth and our Sun among the various giants of the universe. It is simultaneously sobering and mind-boggling experience.
First series of images starts with a Death Star, to further emphasize the futility of vain pride and ambition.

"We simply do not understand our place in the universe
and have not the courage to admit it"
-- Barry Lopez (American writer, b.1945)


"Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery - the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets - is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together."
-- Alan Watts


"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination.
But the combination is locked up in the safe."
-- Peter De Vries


"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
-- C.S. Lewis


The Universe is a big place populated by stars and thoroughly confused humans.

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