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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

The other night as I was waiting for sleep I tried to imagine the immensity of space. I imagined flying past uncountable galaxies as far as you could see.

Then I thought, try to imagine not the scale of galaxies but at the scale of me. For a fraction of an instant I succeeded.

It about precipitated a panic attack. It felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest and I a hundred feelings I can’t express went thought me.

I quickly went back to the galaxy scaled imagining. The raw reality of the size of the universe is too much for our limited psyches to accept.


30 posted on 07/13/2012 11:08:18 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

“I imagined flying past uncountable galaxies “

You must have been traveling at ludicrous speed.


33 posted on 07/13/2012 11:23:15 AM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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