How Important Is Anything?

[burancap]

This photo is from Saturn!

Meh, those corners are soft! Must have been software involved.

 

[JP Owens]

It's interesting that we keep building bigger and bigger telescopes so we can crop in on smaller and smaller parts of the universe, hoping to define it. We will never get to see "the universe" as it really is. There is no "beyond the universe" to stand and point our cameras back at it.

I think I've had too much coffee today.

 

[Sparrow]

Stewart I meant more from the philosophical standpoint that the universe is meaningless without a conscious observer. Without an observer it may as well not exist.

And, I am sure (although there is no way to prove it) that consciousness is found widely amongst living things - so I am not promoting an anthropocentric viewpoint.

Randy

Yes I assumed that was your view ... I was simply pointing that your conscious observer requires the validation of another observer to hold true ... and from there it's giant tortoises all the way down 🙂

 

[Bill Clark]

Jeff,

Better get up there and fix the lens!

Ha!

 

[kbg32]

Consciousness is everything.

 

[Bill Clark]

The next step (tool) after Hubble for humans on earth to make discoveries:


http://jwst.nasa.gov/origins.html

Should provide some nice photographs!

 

[Duane Pandorf]

I Am pretty small.

Puny!

How large is our blue planet?

Out there?

This photo is from Saturn!

My wife's birthday and our anniversary. Everything else is meaningless!

 

[Bill Clark]

I agree Duane.

And, for me, in addition, our children and their families.

 

[Ranchu]

Sounds like a cop out. Thanks for the update.