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Box of Galaxies by ~saramondo

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Box of Galaxies

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Published: Jan 16, 2012

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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

— H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, 1895.

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Upon The SandGENERATIONS PASS
CIVILIZATIONS DIE
THE BLiNK OF AN EYE
IN GALACTIC TIME
Said one man to another,
"At the high tide of the sea, long ago, I wrote a line upon the sand with the point of my staff;
and people still pause to read it, and they are careful that naught shall erase it."
And the other man said,
"I too wrote a line upon the sand, but it was at low tide, and the waves of the vast sea washed it away.
But tell me, what did you write?"
And the first man answered,
"I wrote this: 'I am he who is.'
But what did you write?"
And the other man said,
"This I wrote:
'I am but a drop in this great ocean.' "
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Wanderer

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By measuring the number and luminosity of observable galaxies, astronomers put current estimates of the total stellar population at roughly 70 billion trill