Maisie's Galaxy emerged about 390 million years after the Big Bang, in the context of a universe roughly 13.77 billion years old.
  • habanhero@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Shouldn’t this awareness of our insignificance be unbearable?

    Why would it be? I personally find it humbling.

    • fiah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      some people find it incredibly depressing to realize that nothing they do matters at all, when considered in the context of the entire the universe

      • Zerfallen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        Those people need to check their ego and recalibrate to find contentment. Or double-down on their preferred alternative reality.