2000-12-04 || 6.30p

Life, the Universe, and everything.

Wow. The Cassini probe sent back a bunch of pictures from its flyby of Jupiter. Amazing pics. I can't comprehend, sometimes, the scale of things off the surface of this tiny planet. Take that red blot on the surface of Jupiter for instance. The red spot on Jupiter is the mother of all hurricanes. It has been raging for longer than people have been walking on two legs and paying taxes, and it will prolly rage for thousands of years more. It's big enough to swallow our planet gratis and ask for more.

Add to that the fact that if we could get there fast or safe enough to land on the place, the craft would be crushed like a tin can by the olympian pressures that exist there, before it ever reached the liquid that we assume to be there. Never mind ever touching the metallic surface that *might* be there somewhere-- a tiny ball maybe as large as Earth.

Maybe.

Jupiter is bigger than the Earth, the Sun is bigger than Jupiter, the Solar system is bigger than the Sun, the Orion Arm is bigger than our little solar system, the galaxy is bigger still, ditto for the cluster of galaxies we are in, and so on to the expanding Universe.

And there are still people who think that Human beings are the paragon of life?



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