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Ron Mehico

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I mean seriously, how pointless is our life? What are we even doing here? You just look at something like that and what a tiny spec even the earth is and you just start pondering. Really just wild. Could you imagine living long enough to even have an idea? What will humans know in a million years if we even still exist? I might hit the vape this weekend and look at these pictures and really make my head explode.
 

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If you consider yourself a moderate and went to Neil's performance at Palace a few weeks, which way did his performance sway you?
 

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While it does make one feel insignificant, we should also feel honored/blessed/lucky to be living now and to be able to see something like this. It should make us feel like we should do something special for our little piece of the cosmos while we’re still kicking it on this plane of existence.

But, I’ll probably just keep switching between three apps on my phone for the time being.
 

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I mean seriously, how pointless is our life? What are we even doing here? You just look at something like that and what a tiny spec even the earth is and you just start pondering. Really just wild. Could you imagine living long enough to even have an idea? What will humans know in a million years if we even still exist? I might hit the vape this weekend and look at these pictures and really make my head explode.
Your argument makes no sense. Are you comparing yourself to the vastness of the universe? That's a real ego issue.
 

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Also I was explaining what a beaver was to my 3 year old son and realized it’s a weird stupid animal that’s entire purpose in life is to grab branches and tree limbs and make dams in tiny creeks and man what a stupid pointless life. Like WTF was the point of that animal what the hell
And, yet, ecosystems are changed dramatically because of the beaver’s actions.
 

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We’re all just space dust and stupid chemical reactions which seek to change our own perception of consciousness through other chemical reactions which are available to us…life.
Put down the telescope.
 

TortElvisII

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Are you having a conversation with me? Is that what’s happening?
 

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If there is other life, my two biggest questions are how does their Paddock compare to ours and are they as rich?
Based on my research of Superman comics, bizarro paddock is a very welcoming place. It is mostly inhabited by individuals of advanced intelligence who become extremely morose and sullen when a celebrity passes away.
 

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Good thing we aren't in the middle part of the Milky Way, it looks kind of bright there.

We seem to be in a rural area between much more crowded areas.
 

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Tonight is a supermoon... 930 Eastern or so and 8:40 in the west or so.
 
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I mean seriously, how pointless is our life? What are we even doing here? You just look at something like that and what a tiny spec even the earth is and you just start pondering. Really just wild. Could you imagine living long enough to even have an idea? What will humans know in a million years if we even still exist? I might hit the vape this weekend and look at these pictures and really make my head explode.
I've never thought about the infinite vastness of space that none of us have the ability to comprehend and imagined how pointless our lives are. But like you, it does make me wish our life spans were much, much greater. What advancements would we witness if our avg. life expectancy was 500 or 1000 years instead of 78 or so? None of us posting are even going to reach the year 2100. Just incredibly frustrating that there might be something that happens or some massive discovery or new tech that occurs in say, 2150, and none of us will see it.

Whole thing is wild though. We know quite a bit about our own solar system, yet we've only been to the moon and there are still millions of species and organisms yet discovered on Earth. We're able to see so far away with this telescope, yet there's no conceivable way to put a human or a machine outside of our own galaxy.
 

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I've never thought about the infinite vastness of space that none of us have the ability to comprehend and imagined how pointless our lives are. But like you, it does make me wish our life spans were much, much greater. What advancements would we witness if our avg. life expectancy was 500 or 1000 years instead of 78 or so? None of us posting are even going to reach the year 2100. Just incredibly frustrating that there might be something that happens or some massive discovery or new tech that occurs in say, 2150, and none of us will see it.

Whole thing is wild though. We know quite a bit about our own solar system, yet we've only been to the moon and there are still millions of species and organisms yet discovered on Earth. We're able to see so far away with this telescope, yet there's no conceivable way to put a human or a machine outside of our own galaxy.
Is “space” infinite? We know the universe is not, but is expanding, but may also contract. Whether “space” is infinite is not known.

As to living 200-500 years, it is optimistic to point only at the good you would see. History is showing us that it may take thousands of years, if that, for humans to improve their nature. That is, of course, if we don’t kill everyone well before that.