The diameter of the earth is 12,742 kilometers. The earth is 150 million kilometers from the sun. The Oort cloud of comets which marks the outer rim of our solar system extends to 30 trillion kilometers from the sun. The next closest star to ours is Proxima Centauri - 40 trillion kilometers away, There are between 200 and 400 billion other stars in our galaxy. The next nearest galaxy to ours is Andromeda, 2.44 million light-years away. The Milky Way is one of perhaps a hundred billion galaxies in the visible universe. The farthest visible galaxy is 13.2 billion light-years away. The universe is estimated at 13.7 billion years old. Humans have walked the earth for less than 100th of a percent of earth's history.
Some days, my problems and stresses seem ridiculous.
Some days, my problems and stresses seem ridiculous.
lolliepop:
Interesting perspective 