Is it normal the vastness of the universe freaks me out?

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  • sYki
    10 years ago | pl

    Umm, this might make things worse but it's more like our galaxy is like a bacteria of the universe, our solar system is like a bacteria of our galaxy, our planet is a tiny part of our solar system, we are each a tiny part of our planet, then thinking about multiple universes.... "there are more stars in the heavens than EVERY GRAIN OF SAND on the planet" and each star is a potential solar system with multiple planets orbiting them. We're in the same boat, I think it's normal. I'd go into more detail and add links but I'm on my phone and have to start work. We're so small it doesn't matter to care that we're small, live your life.

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    • BLAh81
      10 years ago | pl

      "there are more stars in the heavens than EVERY GRAIN OF SAND on the planet"

      Yes, I've heard that too many times. It's not necessarily that I don't believe it, but I do wonder how people ever came to know this. Could you perhaps tell me? I'd really like to know.

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      • sYki
        10 years ago | pl

        They don't really know this, its just an estimate from taking a section of sky and using powerful telescopes and counting the stars in the area as deep as they can. Then they multiply that number by the number of sections in the sky...to put it bluntly.

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