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>A rough approximation grants about One Hundred BILLION stars per galaxy
>Current science estimates up to 200 billion galaxies inside the observable universe
>The average for planets around a star is >1
>Our sun, an average-sized star, is 330,000 times more massive than the Earth
>The average person may not even explore their entire city of birth
Do you know any literature that reflects on the absurd, borderline comical vastness of this speckled void we call the universe, and our less-than-microscopic relation with it? When I think of images like this one, I shut down a bit. There is one particular NASA image, several gigabytes large, where each pixel of light approximately correlates to a star. It's nearly unfathomable.

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>>14069132

>> No.14069141

Yes. Aniara by Harry Martinson. Olaf Stapledon's Starmaker. John C. Wright's Golden Oeucumene trilogy and Eachaton Cycle.

All incredible sci-fi works. Haven't found anything like 'em since.

>> No.14069145

Space isn't real

>> No.14069150

Unironically HP Lovecraft, but study Schopenhauer and Ecclesiastes first

>> No.14069159

>>14069145
this. you're looking at water droplets in hyper suspension

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>>14069132
>universe big!!!!!!!!!

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*inhales*
SATAN WHISPERED THE CONCEPT OF AN EMPTY MEANINGLESS UNIVERSE OF WHIRLING GAS BALLS INTO OCCULTIST GIORDANO BRUNO'S EARS IN THE 16TH CENTURY KNOWING THAT SUCH A VAST MEANINGLESS EXISTENCE WOULD INSTILL NIHILISTIC FAGGOTRY INTO MANKIND AND DRIVE THEM AWAY FROM GOD. OCCULTIST AND SECRET SOCIETY MEMBER ISAAC NEWTON'S UNPROVEABLE THEORY OF GRAVITY LEADING TO JEWISH PLAIGIARIST EINSTEIN'S THEORIES OF RELATIVITY HAVE ONLY EXACERBATED THE ISSUE. DESPITE ALL OF THE GLARING PROBLEMS OF THE STANDARD MODEL AND INDEED THE VERY CONCEPT OF GRAVITY WE MUST PERSEVERE AND EVERY MILQUETOAST HIGHSCHOOL SCIENCE I FUCKING LOVE REDDITOR BELIEVES THESE NONSENSE SHOESTRING AND GUM THEORIES TO BE A RELIGIOUS TRUTH

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>>14069132
>Dude I fucking love science and space!

>> No.14069215

>>14069186
Based. It's no coincidence Lovecraft's insipid ooga booga brand of horror could not have existed without the cosmological findings of the time

>> No.14069307

>>14069186
B A S E D

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>>14069139
>>14069183
>>14069186
>>14069211
>>14069215
>>14069307


yikes. let's unpack this.


you do realize that everything OP said is settled science, don't you? oh boy, i literally can't even with you fucking poltards.


sorry child, but cold hard science doesn't care about your little incel feelings, okay. you do realize it's fucking 2019 and y'all are still listening to memes over ACTUAL SCIENTISTS?


what? do y'all think the earth is flat or something? yes, the world is flat and there's a massive boogie man conspiracy to make you think its round for some fucking reason! or... maybe, just maybe, the FUCKING SCIENTISTS actually know more than you do about FUCKING SCIENCE. oh hey, yeah, maybe that's it! :)


but no, you poltards will continue to delude yourselfs and listen to whatever the next parrot in the echo chamber says. its almost as if you WANT to be retarded.


wow... just wow. this is the world we live in, folks. let that sink in.


this thread is making me lose faith in humanity. *sigh*

>> No.14069403

>>14069381
>laying it on this thick
>>>/qa/

>> No.14069416

OP here, the last thing I expected was such a negative response. Do anons really not even bat an eye at the scope of the cosmos?

>> No.14069429

>>14069416
no, sadly they are feeble-minded poltards who don't care about science. oh how i pity them.

>> No.14069440

>>14069381
take everything you just said about us, apply it to yourself. he without fault cast the first stone and all that...

>> No.14069445

>>14069440
>fault
>stone
EPIC, SIMPLY EPIC MY GOOD SIR

>> No.14069451

>>14069416
the earth is a closed system and the evidence is everywhere. you have never once looked at the world correctly because you have been trapped in a mind matrix. release yourself anons from the plague of jewish controlled education

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Star Trek novels!

All of science fiction actually. Some more effectively than others

>> No.14069499

DON'T DO IT! DON'T YOU FUCKING DO IT ANONS, NOBODY FUCKING DO IT! HIDE THE POST IF YOU HAVE TO GOD DAMN IT

>> No.14069505

>>14069445
ahem, thanks i'm here all night.

>> No.14069617

>>14069139
observation isnt blind science idiot

>> No.14069644

>>14069381
shitty bait

>> No.14069648

>>14069416
Typically posts like yours are associated with weak reddit type individuals. It's not about the concept of your thread but rather the irrational NPC reaction idiots on this site have to anything remotely suggesting an alternative viewpoint

>> No.14069697

>>14069648
>NPC
>>>/pol/
>grrr I hate 4chan
>>>/g/aiaonline

>> No.14069819

>>14069416
The thing is that truly realizing it is basically impossible.
Been interested in astronomy for twenty years, had this moment of clarity two years ago that everything humanity will ever accomplish will mean nothing in the cosmic scale.
Then I had to get back to work.
It can come back, accidentally or if I really focus on it, for a moment.
It would be impossible to live day by day with that understanding. Books?
Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Stanislaw Lem - Pirx's Tale

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>>14069416
There are as many things on Earth as there are in the whole universe. Earth is so very full of things.

>> No.14069935

Imagine the collapse of all of that into smaller and smaller hubble volumes as inflation keeps going, until each galaxy is in it's own bubble.

>> No.14070047

>>14069416
Anyone who isn't a (for lack of a better term) NPC has already realized these things and internalized the concepts, your just jerking off in thread form.

>> No.14070078

>>14070047
No they haven't, even the non-NPCs.

OP, or anyone really, if you want to experience the scope for yourself, smoke a blunt to the bead and go flying through Space Engine while listening to Brian Eno or something. Shit changes a man

>> No.14070100

>>14069416
It vastness of the cosmos unironically fills my mind with wonder, OP. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately as well. I don’t know of any books though.

>> No.14070126

>>14069416
You triggered their cope mechanisms because the topic makes them incredibly uncomfortable and the best way to disarm the anxiety they feel is by shitposting and degrading your post to "reddit" or whatever the fuck.
Thanks OP, I was very high and I felt like a worm.

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people on 4chan are so broken by their feelings of constant persecution that they're unwilling to consider the impenetrably inexplicable nature of existence, or even the bare concept of infinity itself, if those concepts are even by barest association connected with the spooky scary "science" word

OP would have a more receptive audience if he said "nigger" on reddit

>> No.14070267

>>14070158
The sheer scale of the universe suggests a randomness in the emergence of life rather than some carefully guided process, as well as the immense number of now extinct species. This triggers christcucks more than anything else I've seen.

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>wow... just wow. this is the world we live in, folks. let that sink in.

>> No.14070314

>>14070267
Indeed. It also makes you wonder, if Christianity is true then why is all of that there? There's no satisfactory explanation.

>> No.14070323

>>14070314
that is right.
its turtles all the way down no matter how you view it.
It truly is the only real mystery out there and by gosh its a big one

>> No.14070868

>>14069429
>poltards who don't care about science
Those are /lit/izens who hate stemfaggotry.

>> No.14070873

>>14070158
The scale doesn't even approach infinity in any meaningful way beyond a single step I take. All things limited and finite are equal before the infinite.

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Should I stop reading novels and start reading mathematics and theoretical astrophysics textbooks?

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>>14069648
>imagine being this guy

>> No.14070922

>>14070919
LOL

>> No.14071030

>>14069416
no we agree with you but we're making fun of you because this type of post belongs on facebook or on a poster in a science lab in a high school. why do you expect us to get excited at expired platitudes.