[sevry]

The rest of the universe, beyond the light horizon, is

No one knows. We know what was. We can't really get a qualitative handle on what - is . . is - just in this sense of looking to the stars. It's so outside our customary experience. The theorists would deal with logics and axioms, but would lack the arguments by comparison. Nothing is comparable.

[RightWhale]

Is it any wonder that we don't seem to mind that we have so polluted our night sky that the children of most cities have never even seen the Milky Way? We have our computer games and email; that is enough of a universe. Once a person has stood outdoors and seen the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way for what it is, and it isn't much but the local region of the Milky Way, and felt how significant our entire planet is in comparison, the battle of certain people for ownership of the planet seems like the squabbling of dust mites over a speck of dust.