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Sunday, 11 May 2003
The latest pictures from Hubble astound me. I do not understand how professional astronomers keep from breaking down from time to time, just plain weeping over the sheer vastness of that which they study. It’s staggering how much is out there, and how far away it is, and how old it is. And how small we are in relation to it all (in this life, anyway).
posted to /misc at 5:11pm :: 1 response



John had this to say (06/09/2003 14:18:12):
Don't know if someone will read down this far but there's another blog entry someone wrote that sort of goes along with the title of this journal entry -- not being able to conceive how tiny we are...

http://foreverlad.diaryland.com/quintillion.html

Good reading.

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