The Milky Way. Still think it matters that the barista screwed up your order?
My Facebook friend Staci was lamenting yesterday that she was having one of those days where she felt at odds with the universe, that she was such a tiny, trivial, insignificant speck in the grand cosmic scheme of things. A feeling she blamed on the landing of the Mars Curiosity rover, since the sheer scale of what they accomplished is outside of the comprehension of someone in their day-to-day travels. And yet, when you take a big look at it, we did little more than fire a bullet at a target across our yard. When you start to really explore the scale of the universe, that’s when it really starts to get to you.
