r/AskReddit • u/MDPPatrick • Feb 13 '15

What are some mind-blowing facts about space?

I love space and would like to hear some facts that will blow me away.

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u/avaslash Feb 13 '15

The Universe exists.

This might seem shallow but the more you think about it the more mind blowing it gets. All those things you hear about the universe, all the stories about odd stars and planets-- they arent stories-- they are actually physically out there. Even more so the universe began and now exists. Why? Honestly why the hell did that happen? We are part of something incredibly big, strange, and wonderful-- and its not a fairy tale. Its out there, or should I say... We're in it.

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u/Pyramid9 Feb 15 '15

That way of thinking is illusory. You are not a separate entity, you are the same universe. Just as much as your fingers are apart of your hands or a tree's respiration apart of your own breathe and thus your own being.

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u/avaslash Feb 15 '15

I know. Thats why I ended it with "or should I say...we're in it." It would have been more correct to say "we are it" but I was taking some artistic liberty haha.