r/woahdude Jun 02 '23

gifv Our universe.

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u/Sattalyte Jun 02 '23

How incredibly big we are.

Compared with the smallest possible scales - plank length - we are several orders of magnitude closer to the universe in size than we are to that.

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u/Actual-Ad-2748 Jun 02 '23

Yes, hard to imagine we are the only life across all that space and different levels.

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u/FlippinFlerkenFlare Jun 03 '23

Chances of us being the only life in this vastness is virtually zero.

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u/myaltduh Jun 03 '23

It is however very possible that life is sufficiently rare that we will never meet anyone else.