> Every little thing in that photo is incomprehensibly large.

And that's just a small portion of what we can perceive, as humans. It's mindblowing; daily concerns are so trivial in comparison. It's so sad we can't see the night sky clearly anymore, that must have been fantastic, especially with an understanding of what those little specks of light are. Probably more fulfilling than watching screens.

Maybe we had to think our problems were important so we can surivive. I get your point though, we're due to revisit our priorities. Especailly as science continues to show us what's possible, and what's at stake. Turns out the universe is bigger than anyone imagined and we're probably not going to be visited by Little Green Men any time soon eager to tell us the meaning life, the universe and everything in between.

And what also makes me think again and again is the fact that we see their state from 240,000,000 years ago. Some of these huge little dots may no longer exist in the form now observed.

by the reverse of the incomprehensibly large realization is how incomprehensibly small we are. kind of humbling. of all of the petty animosity within human civilization, it doesn't mount to a hill of beans to the cosmos.