Please stop taking life so seriously.

**Seroquel** · 10-21-2011 08:39 AM

**Wayfaerer** · 10-21-2011 08:52 AM

But it's so seriously awesome!

**Ilumirath** · 10-21-2011 09:56 AM

Daaaayymn

**khh** · 10-21-2011 10:55 AM

I fail to see why being small in size would make us any less important

**BobbyLance** · 10-21-2011 11:15 AM

*nods head in agreement with khh's statement

**Morten** · 10-21-2011 11:28 AM

Next lucid goal: Explore space!

**DeeryTheDeer** · 10-21-2011 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by khh

I fail to see why being small in size would make us any less important

Yeah, I've been pretty stressed out and this did absolutely nothing for me. It blew my mind the first time I saw it, though.

**Quantiq** · 10-21-2011 01:40 PM

You know you're important when you are on are tiny rock floating through a universe 13 billion light years long.

**HeavySleeper** · 10-21-2011 02:50 PM

**Ne-yo** · 10-21-2011 03:21 PM

Pretty awesome stuff. Betelgeuse is my favorite.

**Morten** · 10-21-2011 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Pretty awesome stuff. Betelgeuse is my favorite.

The planet that looks like a blue version of the sun is my favorite.

**Unelias** · 10-21-2011 06:06 PM

All the nihilists in the world would cry tears of joy. Too bad they don't do such things.

**Ne-yo** · 10-21-2011 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by Morten

The planet that looks like a blue version of the sun is my favorite.

I think you're talking about VV Cephei B and that's actually not a planet it's a star. One in part of a binary star system located in the constellation Cepheus

and yes, it looks damn cool! I like that one too.

**Original Poster** · 10-21-2011 06:58 PM

We may not be important, but Criss Angel is

**ThePreserver** · 10-21-2011 07:21 PM

What would be the benefit of me not taking life seriously?

**LonelyTurtle** · 10-21-2011 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

What would be the benefit of me not taking life seriously?

reduced stress, longer life expectancy

**Morten** · 10-21-2011 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by LonelyTurtle

reduced stress, longer life expectancy

more fun.

**ThePreserver** · 10-21-2011 07:45 PM

I don't know... I like taking life seriously. It makes me feel like I'm doing good. If none of us took it seriously, how would we solve problems like starvation, suffering, or keep society functioning? Seems like we have to take it seriously to keep life... alive.

**Morten** · 10-21-2011 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

I don't know... I like taking life seriously. It makes me feel like I'm doing good. If none of us took it seriously, how would we solve problems like starvation, suffering, or keep society functioning? Seems like we have to take it seriously to keep life... alive.

And that's great! Just remember to relax and have fun once in a while.

**Arra** · 10-21-2011 10:48 PM

I've seen a few of these and do think the scale is amazing.

But I've always had a problem with the conclusion: that we're insignificant. Physical smallness does not necessarily imply less significance. Your right eye is a lot more important than a giant boulder. In all of those galexies, in all of that space, this is the only planet that we know of which has life. To me, and to most people, that makes our planet more significant than the billions of others. The fact that we're small is completely irrelevant while determining how significant we are.

**Flying Spaghetti Monster** · 10-21-2011 11:09 PM

these pictures make me appreciate life itself.
for all we know there's only life on one in every billion billion of those planets.

we humans are some arrangements of matter that gets to be conscious of itself (and it's place in the grand cosmic scale of things) which in itself it incredible.
makes me feel like a very significant being, i remind myself this privilege almost everyday and use it to motivate me (in writing music etc, doesn't really help with mundane things) when i'm not feeling particularly creative.

c'mon you humans, you've got to something

**LonelyTurtle** · 10-21-2011 11:21 PM

It is estimated that at least ten percent of all sun-like stars have a system of planets, i.e. there are 6.25×10^18 stars with planets orbiting them in the observable Universe. Even if we assume that only one out of a billion of these stars have planets supporting life, there would be some 6.25 (billion) life-supporting planetary systems in the observable Universe.

**Never** · 10-22-2011 07:05 AM

Originally Posted by LonelyTurtle

reduced stress, longer life expectancy

As long as you are not one of those "the glass is half full even though it's empty" kind of people. Then you have Stalin and death.

Oh wait....too late.

It's a shame we cannot explore space the way we should, but we can't even seem to keep liberty for very long.