On Artemis II mission



Consider the enormity of earth from this Artemis II exploration.

And the tininess of this dot from the above image. This universe is incomprehensible and I can't even begin to wrap my head over the vastness and our mere existence on earth. I saw a comment on Reddit about the Farthest documentary that a lady said that after the film, she went to flick a speck of dust from the canvas before realising that's our entire earth in an image.

You can't help and wonder how minuscule, just infinitesimally small we are. Meanwhile, the ocean is about 70% of the earth's surface. Humans have barely tranversed 5% of the ocean and from what I saw online, about 80% remain unmapped.

On the atheists on Reddit...

I would describe them as insufferable more of... I mean I would wager the astronauts should even be more religious. Cos being out of this space makes the marvel of all that we are more incredulous. I can't even imagine seeing earth and not shudder on the magnitude of the universe.

And because I want to claim to be logical, I'd say that this entirety of our existence occurred by happenstance. That we are made from years of cells doing trial and error. Really. Really...

Even if it's not the Christian God, there has to be other beings in space, more technologically advanced that we are, or heck even supernatural that are playing our lives like a fiddle. 

Make no mistake, I give no shit about religion, its complimentary dogma and all of the preaching heaven and hell and all of that. It's even the science and precision of which things exist that's convincing me of a God not what's spouted on the bible. I'm just humbled by the sheer fact of our existence. Of how minute all the things we fight and rave about are in the larger scheme of things.

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