Yerdua22 ♧☆Dec 10, 2022
Sheril Kirshenbaum

It’s wild that we can see images like this from NASA’s Webb Telescope - galaxies hundreds of millions of light years away, stars being born & dying - and yet carry on ravaging the planet as if it’s not miraculous that somehow, we’re here.

A tiny speck of sand in the vastness of the cosmos. #space

Dec 10, 2022 at 10:12amMetatext
Show threadYangXiaoguangDec 10, 2022
@Sheril Human beings are small and insignificant in the vast universe．
Show threadYerdua22 ♧☆Dec 10, 2022
@mailyxg @Sheril ..but for a very brief time, super significant here. I like McKenna’s idea that we were here to advance rock.
Show threadSudhirDec 10, 2022
@Sheril. Really fascinating.👍😇
What is astonishing is, since these happenings are taking place thousands of Light Years away, by the time Radio Waves reach us, we get the state of happenings which were taking place thousands of Light Years before? What may be happening today, we will come to know thousands of Light Years later!! By that time what will be state of our Earth & Solar System? May be Astronomers can throw some light on it?🤔🤪😇
Show threadSudhirDec 10, 2022
@Sheril 👍😊🤔😇🙏
Show thread┐⁠(⁠ ⁠˘⁠_⁠˘⁠)⁠┌ alm10965 • 6×💉Dec 10, 2022
@Sheril cool, Your image description fits total, whole in the screen of my Xperia XA1
Show threadMohamed AbdiDec 10, 2022
@Sheril follow please 💔
Show threadL@ZDec 10, 2022

@Sheril

Albert Einstein believed there are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle

Personally, I am grateful for every little thing in life. The illusion that things can be taken for granted can only lead to great sorrow.

Show threadBobDec 10, 2022
@Sheril Humility over hubris.
Show threadLeslieNoonDec 10, 2022
@Sheril This 👆is a thought that I’m going to be coming back to all day. It is equal parts beautiful and terrifying.
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Dec 10, 2022
@Sheril Incredible. I often think about the quantity and speed of change that people born early in the last century experienced if they lived long lives. My father, e.g., was born in 1918 and died, at 98, in 2016. Then I look at images like this and wonder if Boomers like me will look back and feel that the changes we’ve seen are equally monumental. (Assuming, of course, that the earth doesn’t implode in the next few decades…)
Show threadantipode77Dec 10, 2022

@JaneinNJ @Sheril

https://youtu.be/XkuirEweZvM

Kids reactions to rotary dial phone !
Tempus fugit.

What's the very
first thing you'd have to do to use that phone?

KIDS REACT TO ROTARY PHONES

YouTube
Show threadRD HallDec 17, 2022
@JaneinNJ @Sheril
I separate the human race by Pre Man Walking on the Moon, and After Man Walked on the Moon
Pre & After SpaceFlight.
Show threadHashDec 10, 2022
@Sheril
Those neutrinos penetrate our bodies every second - touching bigbang
Show threadBeegyPsiDec 10, 2022

@Sheril

Well, we're one species... but there are 8 billion of us. Sadly, a tiny, tiny fraction of that 8 billion has the mental view required for that sort of consideration.

Most of humanity consists of barely-evolved apes, hell-bent on devolving back to the woods.

Show threadChyllstormDec 10, 2022

@Sheril A quote I coined that this type of scale awareness makes me feel is appropriate.

"Life is a fever dream of oblivion."

Show threadTeamRoseDec 10, 2022
@Sheril so very well put!
Heavenly & Earthly wonder’s deserve respect, conservation &…awe.
While the current “value” of a human life is so degraded…
Our natural world is certainly hangs by a thread.
Show threadFaisalDec 10, 2022
@Sheril amazing pictures - I heard it took decades to get the telescope designed and built and it was located in a special place in the sky to get these pictures.
Show threadAspen ProposalDec 10, 2022

@Sheril

Your post reminds me of one of our Facebook ads.

Show threadStephen ShermanDec 10, 2022
@Sheril If one believes The Big Guy just poofed us into existence and ever since has been overseeing and managing things here, maybe it’s easier to not worry about the ravaging.
Show threadComputeforloot Dec 10, 2022
@Sheril we are, all of us, simultaneously wonderful and terrible, as the human race 🤷🏻‍♂️
Show threadJack HeathDec 11, 2022
@Sheril Our existence is so improbable. It's like we went to the roulette table, put all our chips on number 35, and WON. But now we're putting all our winnings - and our life's savings, and everything we could borrow - back on the same number, with thoroughly unearned confidence.
The ball might not have started spinning yet, but I worry that the dealer has already called "no more bets".
Show threadPaul Gass-FeeleyDec 11, 2022
@Sheril humans are spoiled
Show threadJodie TurnerDec 11, 2022
@Sheril
dreadful, heartbreaking times of delusions
Show threadJuliefaithmcmurrayartDec 12, 2022
@Sheril stunning
Show threadPjDec 12, 2022
@Sheril All we see is the stars. What we don’t is that black matters. Well, and somebody should clean up that brown dust cloud. Who left this mess there?
Show threadAlaricDec 13, 2022
@Sheril amazing alt text on this image!