Most of the universe is empty, most of the stuff that isn’t emptiness is called matter. Most of that matter is dead.
But you’re alive, right now. In time for looking at memes on the internet. In perspective regarding the universe, you’re rare, much less common than stars. Feeling insignificant is like galactic imposter syndrome.
We understand the lights. We understand the lights above the Arby’s. We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us: We don’t understand even more.
- Welcome to Night Vale, episode 1
How wonderful it is to be one of the few specks of dust capable of appreciating this vast universe we live in
Calvin being fed into the Total Perspective Vortex.
Dust speck that is already emulating entire universes using memory saving techniques which just so happen to map onto experimentally evidenced quirks to our own universe…
The tendency to minimize the import of intelligence isn’t always as wise as it tries to seem.
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