MrAnonAMoose t1_iud9rtx wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:36 PM

Reply to comment by rondonjon in The scariest picture of space... by EDFLsnape

Same. I don't understand why people feel scared. I find it awe inspiring, and even comforting. And we're only viewing our visible universe in this photo, of theoretically infinite parallel universes/multiverse yet.

MVRK_3 t1_iuds1uz wrote on October 30, 2022 at 3:51 PM

This for sure. It’s so amazing to imagine what is actually out there. It’s kind of sad that we will never know ourselves because we will die before technology advances enough to explore and find out all those unanswered questions.

ReincarnatedInc t1_iudth1h wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:01 PM

Not to mention; In all that vastness, in all that incomprehensible time, out of all of that, random molecules got together right here and right now to make Us.

I dont feel small. I feel incredibly and astoundingly lucky.

MrAnonAMoose t1_iudux2q wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:11 PM

Like many others, Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory (aka superstring theory), would suggest there's an intelligence behind it, that's it's not by chance. In his opinion of course, since it's not the kind of thing that's possible to prove when the rules of the game forbid it.

ReincarnatedInc t1_iudw1qa wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:19 PM

Nice link thanks!

I very much feel the same actually.

Something kicked the whole thing off, after all. Someday we may discover what or who? that was.

Ok-Woodpecker-223 t1_iugnqq1 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:27 AM

I don’t understand that either - not to say I’d discredit the fear, just that I don’t get how it happens as I’m dumb. But there are a lot of difficult to explain phobias, for example I get very afraid if I enter a room or corridor with lots of doors, all looking very much the same with basically no distinction between them. Probably some horror flick I saw way too young reference.

But space (distance between things) I don’t get my head wrapped around; I can easily imagine being between in 2 distant objects is scary, or trapped on one with no way out during imminent catastrophe, be it space or sea or even on land like in the middle of desert. But not when you are on cozy, mostly safe location without need to move to the other.