So?

Given Stephen Hawking's passing yesterday, lets talk about just how vast space really is.

Cause most people just have no idea, none.

It's just almost incomprehensible.

Like something else I frequently talk about :-).

I'm paraphrasing from "The Farthest", the PBS documentary on The Voyager spacecraft. 

If a grain of sand was to be proportional to our sun?

And you sat it on a kitchen table?

The earth would be microscopic and be about a inch away, all things being proportional.

The next star?

The next sun?

In our own lil nondescript galaxy?

(Of which there are billions BTW)

It would be seven and a half miles away.

Pretty vast right?

Hang on theres more.

If you took a soda straw?

And pointed it at a black space in the Big Dipper?

A place where you could see nothing with the naked eye?

The fact would be that there are 1000's of galaxy's in the space you're looking at through the end of that soda straw.

Each of those thousands of galaxy's containing billions of stars (suns) of their own.

I read a quote from Stephen Hawking yesterday, (Dear right wing reactionary fundamentalist types, just because he was an atheist doesn't in any manner diminish his work ), and he said something to this effect, that he just couldn't believe in all the vastness of space, that we are the only ones here. 

And if we were the only ones here? 

Why were we so special? 

Why are we here?

What is our purpose?

Well?

I've got some answers for you Mr. Hawking.

If there are others here?

They were created in his likeness as well.

If there is a multiverse?

God created it as well, cause the book says he created the heavenssssssss.

Emphasis on the plural.

Why are we so special?

Simple.

Because he loves us that much.

Why are we here?

To love him and to give love to others.

Sometimes in our brilliance, humanity overlooks the simplest of things.

Love you Lucy.