One thing I consistently notice with the ancient alien type conspiracy theorists is, they have no comprehension of how big space and stuff in space is. Absolutely none whatsoever. They don't understand that it's all just so big that claims like "nukes could turn our planet into gravel" and "aliens came here to mine our gold" are absolutely preposterous notions. Like seriously folks, look into this; maybe look up some "scale of the universe" videos or something - but please, just please, try to wrap your heads around how absolutely ginormously huge space is.
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You ever have to pause a YouTube video about space because it made you experience genuine terror and existential dread from trying to contemplate it?
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All The Worlds We Know (so far)
No exoplanets (planets not in this solar system) had been confirmed with data until the 1990s, although everyone thought they must exist. We have since found 100s of exponents, most ... very large.
Nearly all of the exoplanets we have discovered are in the little circle on this map.
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I was going to go for a sandwich but then I got caught up in the fact that the world exists and I Am Living In It
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Watching star trek episodes that don't get how vastly big space is. It's like they just didn't read Douglas Adams.
"It's expanding at 8000 cubic kilometers per hour!" That's a surface moving at 20kmph. That's like a leisurely bike ride.
"We're 200,000 kilometers away from the edge!" That's like half the distance to the moon. I think that's like three seconds with the impulse engines.
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Neowise under Big Dipper l Petr Horálek via NASA APOD
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