Your place in the universe.

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As a pantheist, I love this site. Check it out and find your place in the universe. However, since the universe is actually infinite IMO, the video only shows an extremely small fraction of what there is.



http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java ... index.html

Thanks. I like stuff like that....but then again, I get all existential on just an airplane. I have only had a few chances to fly but it is a very peculiar sensation for me, to physically experience a feeling I have had all my life, to be completely removed from the world, an outsider merely looking in. For some reason, it feels like my proper place, and I could fly in a plane everyday.

Yeah. I am just a speck on a speck, that is revolving inside a speck, which is just a speck revolving within a speck of something grand. If that even makes any sense.

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enough....

Just remember that you're standing
On a planet that's evolving,
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second,
So it's reckoned,
A Sun that is the source of all our power,
The Sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way...

Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,
It's 100,000 lightyears side to side,
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,
But out by us, it's just 3000 lightyears wide
We're 30,000 lightyears from galactic central point,
We go 'round every 200 million years,
And our Galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding Universe...

Our Universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz,
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is,
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

- Monty Python, "The Galaxy Song"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9DQ9_gBdWU[/youtube]

does anyone really believe we are all stardust?

right here...under my roof

There is a cockroach living in a crack in the wall under the sink in an upper Manhattan apartment that is convinced, with some reason, that cockroaches have survived for millions of years before mankind and will survive millions of years afterwards and therefore the entire universe was designed for the benefit of cockroaches.

It might be a problem for theological cockroaches

There are dozens posting on various threads on this site regularly. Look for yourself.
(On the internet nobody knows you're a cockroach)