while the moon may noticeably influence a peoples' sleep or societies' criminal activities, and can also for a time make a river seem romantic... Hubble again has more deeply revealed just how vastly insignificant we apparently are.
"awesome" in the words of a scientist about the "universe" we are being shown is perhaps about as adequate and realistic as it sounds with immature teens.
Pascal is well-known for having written of his fright of infinite space. Nietzsche later wrote of how our earth is adrift from what had been believed to be its moorings of meaning. Scientists are now rightly proud of what they have been able to discover via the Hubble telescopes. and yet, while for most people even the politics in the societies in which they live are distant to their lives, the solar system, not to seriously consider our own reported galaxy, are hardly a part of their lives. and yet it seems the extremely distant, "irrelevant", recent "news" which the Hubble telescope has brought of the oldest times is bad, disheartening, even disminding. an increase of human desolation and insignificance.
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