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ArtificialHalo t1_iydoirp wrote

I just find it so hilarious, space.

Like, at a certain scale, light (the thing we associate with instant) becomes like not so fast. But the distances are just soo incredibly vast lmao I love that we can still calculate it, but it means nothing A light-year, what does it mean for light to go round the fucking yuge Earth 8 times in one second?? 8 times Earth, or even one Earth is so huge it's almost incomprehensible so how many seconds in a year again???

Just be amazed by it, its weirdness and the absurd bigness of it haha

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doc_nano t1_iydruye wrote

Yeah, the scale of space is just so stupidly vast compared to what could ever be traveled in a human lifetime. When the light now reaching us from Andromeda left that galaxy, there were no human beings yet. And that's the closest galaxy of comparable size to the Milky Way. There are galaxies thousands of times farther away than that. Those distances might as well be infinite.

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ArtificialHalo t1_iyf61j0 wrote

It's fantastic how smol we are.

And everything we see, is just 5% of all there IS. Fucking insane haha

Also size wise from the smollest to the biggest, planck length to well, the observable universe, A human egg cell is the exact middle point and the smallest we humans can still see basically

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Chadmartigan t1_iydwvq7 wrote

For me what does it is neutron stars, which give us hilarious concepts like nuclear pasta. Like, how absurdly high was the universe when it decided to make these bad boys? "Hey if we keep gravitying I bet we can get just one big nucleus lmaooo'

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jedrider t1_iydor30 wrote

Drugs. Maybe, an anti-depressant. St. John's Wort. You need to feel elation and not dread.

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Storyteller-Hero t1_iydofnt wrote

I imagine being immortal, then an asteroid destroys the planet but I'm still alive afterwards, still immortal, and still conscious despite having no air to breathe amidst the floating rubble and darkness...

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ValuableNorth4 t1_iydspk7 wrote

It’s wildly incomprehensible. I too have these weird anxious feelings at times but my curiosity outweighs my anxious feelings.

The crazy thing is how much of our earth isn’t even inhabitable let alone the known universe as we observe it.

It’s almost like we were placed here to be kept safe from something. If so, what? By who?

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doc_nano t1_iydss8q wrote

I don't have that feeling about space, but about deep water. There could be anything down there. Sharks, jellyfish, enormous whales that could swallow me in one gulp. I would never go scuba diving in the ocean for this reason. Yet somehow I find it fascinating at the same time.

Sorry that I don't have any constructive advice. If it's not debilitating, maybe try to appreciate the fear -- after all, it's part of what makes us human? If it is debilitating, probably best to consult a professional.

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stellarinterstitium t1_iydv87w wrote

I got stoned once with some really good upper 20's percentage THC weed. The specific terpene combination eludes me right now, but it was double digit mg/g for at least two of them.

Anyway, I then made the mistake of pondering the concept of a star. Then watching one of those you tube videos on the scale of the largetst stars. OMG, I started to freak out, imagining a star that gained a sentient menace; waht would that even be like? Imagine those crazy large hypergiant stars going full Sith, looking down on our Sol like...

"You think you're a star? That's cute. I'M A FUCKING STAR

"BBBBBWWWWWAAAAAHHHHHNNNNNN"

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Stardust_Staubsauger t1_iyebb56 wrote

I think every sane person trying to get the whole picture of the cosmos should feel in awe. Being terriefied isn't that far off.

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xHaroen OP t1_iyewr1d wrote

I think I'm just so in awe, that I am terrified

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itsoktodie t1_iye1e6s wrote

Ever since we started looking at the universe it's been getting bigger. At first, it was just what we could see with the naked eye, and the guesses about what we were seeing grossly underestimated its size. Around 1925 it went from one galaxy surrounded by empty space to a trillion or so galaxies in infinity expanding space. That is fantastic news. You had no say in what kind of universe you were born into. You could have come to consciousness in a shoe box and all your questions would be the same. But you'd be in a fucking shoe box. The universe has no rules or borders or cops or bills. You are free to go (if you can figure out how) anywhere, any time you want. It doesn't want anything from you, but gives you life and everything necessary to sustain it. It's awesome!

If that didn't help try mushrooms. (really)

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boogen-hagen t1_iyebo2p wrote

Isn't it that u r afraid of being lonely or lost in space rather than space?

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