I lay in bed at night looking up at the stars and the only thing I'm thinking is 'Where the fuck is my ceiling'
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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The universe is your ceiling
Five year old me freaking out when learning the sun will eventually explode
Must have been a relief for six year old you to find out that the sun is too small to go nova
It was not a relief, however, to learn that the sun will expand to be so large as to fully encompass the earth's orbit long before it does eventually explode... In only 5 billion years... Which apparently was a few billion less than 6 year old me planned on living for!
Don't worry, it will grow bright enough to fry Earth in only 300 million!
Last Chance To See!
c/ItsAlwaysStarlink
I interpreted the "beautiful starry night" in the context where most of the populated world lives under so much light pollution you can barely see any stars...
Idk, i always found it calming how insignificant i am in the grand scale of things.
like, no matter how big I can fuck up, it'll never register on the scale of the universe.
Pretty sure that's starlink shit
Well as a human, if they learned just a little bit more that panic should melt away to be left only with awe.
I think that I'm the center of the Universe.......like also anything else in the Universe-
We’re all made of ~~star-stuff~~ nuclear waste
~~star-stuff~~ ~~nuclear~~ waste
thermonuclear waste. not the byproduct of fission.
Why has this image been upscale by AI?
I can’t see any anyway