Hubble and the grain of sand. [View All]

3000 galaxies that we did not know existed, covered up by that grain of sand. That Hubble picture is my wall paper on my computer at work and on this computer.
The Hubble telescope was pointed at that same dark nothingness and set for wide open, to gather all the light it could for 10 days.
It is amazing what one can find just by looking beyond our finger tips.
How much more intelligent life is out there among all those countless Brazilians of galaxies?
We quibble over and turn red with our life force, little patches of real nothingness on the only world we can ever experience, as if something here were somehow important. This whole planet we call Earth is nothing more than a dust mote on the edge of a mediocre, run of the mill galaxy with many trillions of suns in it. And yet so many of us think we are the center of something. That we are somehow important in the grand scheme of things.
We are, as a species, nothing but delusional in our arrogant self importance, as we diligently work to kill off all life within reach. A reach that does not even extend to our own finger tips.