06th Jan 2007
BIG. That’s what the universe is.
Great clip called The Humbling Universe. (Link from Melle).
I don’t remember exactly when I got so interested in all stuff cosmological, but I see images like this I get tingly all over. And it reaffirms my belief that there must be something else out there. Statistically, there’s a relatively good chance that the right combination of star and planet and water and temperature has happened more than once. That there are beings out there who are looking up at a patch of sky that looks nothing like ours, maybe looking at a smudge called xlbbza, not realizing it’s really The Milky Way, and they are wondering if and where we are…