I NEED SOME SPACE

These Space Facts Prove That We Simply Cannot Comprehend The Bizarre Vastness Beyond Earth

Listen up, space case! The universe is way weirder than you probably think.

2 months ago · 35.7k reads ·

It's comforting to think that we understand how most things work throughout the entirety of our universe, but the reality is that we know almost nothing. As a species, we're still missing major pieces of the puzzle that is physical reality, but your average schmo on the street knows even less.

Fully grokking just how vast the universe seems to be is almost impossible, but Redditor u/GunnartheGreat6541 wanted folks to share some unbelievable space facts, and hopefully we'll get a tiny bit smarter about the unknowable nightmare of space.

Over 5,000 comments have piled up in this thread, so we had to dig(g) around to find the good stuff. No need to spend your short time on earth reading so many responses when we've done the hard work already.

The universe is big, and there just isn't much in there

Try to conceptualize something the size of the sun rotating 700 times per second

It took Voyager almost half a century to escape our solar system

There are way, way, way too many planets

Earth is cool and all, but our sister planets are mind-boggling

This thought experiment illustrates how differently sound and light work at large scales

In a way, dinosaurs existed on the other side of our galaxy

You're engulfed in neutrinos as you read this

Earth is a footnote at best when it comes to mass in our solar system

You can taste space dust... kinda

Via u/GunnartheGreat6541.

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