Robot Nine keeps finding new ways of looking at the Universe that really short ciruit our tiny minds here! This is similar to another recent post about stars and galaxies, but very different in the presentation. It is well worth looking at all the way through. Amazing!
Once again the best thought to sum this up is the writing of Carl Sagan describing our magnificent planet as a Pale Blue Dot.
"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
