the Eye of the Beholders

What is the Cosmic Scale?
Think of it this way: the sun at the center of our solar system has a gravitational effect radius of about a light-year. At the current speeds of our fastest spacecraft, it's unlikely humanity will ever reach the edge of our solar system.
In other words, it's a mere pin-point in the cosmos.
Our planet was born from dust and rock five billion years ago, and is estimated to orbit for another five billion before falling into the sun or, even darker, drifts off after the end of our solar system.
In other words, it's a blink of an eye.
The most durable element that we observe forming in nature is platinum, which does not decay and is stronger than most types of steel.
In other words, it's soft and comfortable.
That's what the Cosmic Scale means. It means looking at our planet from an unimaginable perspective. To do so requires acknowledging that humans are small. The cosmos go on for infinite light-years and infinite eons beyond us and, no matter how hard we try, we will never be able to comprehend it all.
Fortunately for you, we don't have to look at our world from an unimaginable perspective. I don't even know whose world this is...

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