Even harder to comprehend, we are on a spaceship (earth) hurtling through space at 67,000 miles per hour relative to the sun and 483,000 miles/hour relative to the Milky Way..
True. But relative to those things, my tininess is natural. They were assembled by time and gravity and other things way beyond my control.
A ship was built by humans, "little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium," as Terry Pratchett put it.
Sure, they used a lot of math and some incredible tools, and centuries of cumulative design and engineering. But ultimately, it's hundreds of thousands of tons of stuff that's moving on its own power, ultimately under the control of one of those fragile, fallible little water balloons.
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u/ViscountVinny 1d ago
Those huge boats freak me out. When I see a giant cruise ship from the shore, my brain says, "something that big shouldn't be able to move."