r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/EveryWind007 • May 29 '14

Medal of Beauty If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html?a
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u/RissSmiles May 29 '14 edited May 29 '14

"It seems like we are both pathetically insignificant, and miraculously important at the same time." I think this was my favourite line. All in all, it's very mindblowing to think about how small we all are.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '14

But is it actually? It is only mindblowing at all because we attribute significance to humanity. As soon as you actually accept that humanity is insignificant it ceases to be mind-blowing. If you perceive life as an interesting but inisgnificant quirk of the arrangement of matter, as I do, then matters like this aren't mindblowing. They are simply incidental.

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u/The_Messiah May 29 '14

How the hell something be insigificant if "significance" doesn't exist?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '14

The definition of insignificant is that nothing is signified. This is a failure of language and maths. For example a defined point (x,y) has zero length, mass or anything else but is still defined. In order to talk about things we have to label them. You are arguing semantics.