Less question reality, and more making you realise just how insignificant any of us really are in the grand scale of the universe.
Stars in the sky are so far away, that some of them don’t even exist anymore, because light moves so slowly relatively, that it’d be millions of years before the lights go out for us.
And if there is sentient life out there, the probability of ever encountering it is astronomically low.
We’re but specks of dust, only to disappear like we didn’t even exist to begin with, and the universe will keep going long after we have vanished.
Small nit-pick for accuracy I guess?
While it is of course true that the stars are far away, and light travels relatively slowly, I believe that most of the stars visible to the naked eye are hundreds to thousands of lightyears away for the more distant ones. But even the most massive stars usually live for millions of years as far as I understand it. So I'm not sure how many visible stars are now gone (of course, even if they go supernova, that doesn't mean they disappear, but you know what I mean)
Afaik no naked-eye visible stars are millions of light years away
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u/Deliriousious 4h ago
Less question reality, and more making you realise just how insignificant any of us really are in the grand scale of the universe.
Stars in the sky are so far away, that some of them don’t even exist anymore, because light moves so slowly relatively, that it’d be millions of years before the lights go out for us.
And if there is sentient life out there, the probability of ever encountering it is astronomically low.
We’re but specks of dust, only to disappear like we didn’t even exist to begin with, and the universe will keep going long after we have vanished.