The "meteor streaked across the sky and broke up Friday morning over the Ural Mountain city of Chelyabinsk, unleashing a tremendous shock wave that smashed windows, collapsed roofs and injured at least 1,200 people."
I once heard the atrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson give a talk on the heavens, in which he joked that humanity possesses a peculiar delusion of the universe as God's perfectly ordered kaleidoscope of magnificent colors and beautiful nebulae and all manner of wondrously lovely formations, rather than seeing it for what it is--colliding galaxies, exploding stars, nihilistic black holes, and massive meteors hurling toward Earth at 30,000 m.p.h.
He concluded his talk thus: Man, the universe is out to kill you!
Man, the universe doesn't know we exist. Or care.
Posted by: tamiasmin | February 15, 2013 at 03:16 PM
We are less than a speck of dust in the vastness of the universe. We're lucky we're still here at all.
Posted by: AnneJ | February 15, 2013 at 03:22 PM
As I like to point out in debate when someone informs me that they don't believe in evolution, that's okay evolution doesn't care if you believe in it.
Posted by: Peter G | February 15, 2013 at 05:07 PM
I don't believe in the universe.
I think it's just a theory and not a very plausible one, at that.
Posted by: Jim Milstein | February 16, 2013 at 10:45 AM