MegatheriumRex
MegatheriumRex t1_ix2iowk wrote
Reply to comment by The_Only_AL in Do We Know Where Our Sun Was Born? by baracuda68
Yeah. It becomes pretty incomprehensible.
Another fun way to frame it: 230 million years ago, it’s the middle of the Triassic and dinosaurs are getting their start.
So, (very roughly) from around the time dinosaurs first appeared until now (with all the evolution and extinction in between that eventually led to today’s animals and humans, including all of human societal and technological development squeezed in at the very end) the solar system has orbited the galaxy one time.
MegatheriumRex t1_ix28svh wrote
Reply to comment by The_Only_AL in Do We Know Where Our Sun Was Born? by baracuda68
It’s definitely neat. That said, given that each orbit takes like 230 million years, it’s pretty easy to shift back into the realm of the mind boggling.
MegatheriumRex t1_jb8afz1 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in James Webb Telescope captures the same galaxy at three different points in time in a single mind-boggling image by mirzavadoodulbaig
You’re going to be a plankton a few trillion trillion trillion times.