So I was already feeling pretty small and insignificant when I went to the Museum of Science in Boston the other day. You know, not completely depressed, just kind of...well, the words that kept coming to mind where “a waste of space.” So maybe I was a litte depressed. But I fuigured that a trip to the museum with friends might brighten my mood.
We checked out a number of the exihbits , which were great, and then we headed to the planetarium for “undiscovered worlds,”. It was a great show, with lots of spinning planets and traveling speedily through space, racing past the stars, and exploring recently discovered “exoplanets”: planets outsid our solar system. It really was fasncinating and informative. Mch has been dicsovered in the filed of astronomy since the two classes I took in college back in the... well, never you mind when.
Then at the very end of the sho, they returned to our own homey little solar system, and came close in to our nice, yellow dwarf sun. Ahhh...home! Then, as they talked about the billions of other stars in the galazy, and the biliions of other galaxies out there, they did a suden zoom-out from our sun, saying, “Our sun is just a speck in the glaaxy, and our planet is just a grain of sand circling that speck”
Well, that scertainly puts one in one's place, doesn't it.? I left the planeterium wondering exactly what I am in the cosmic sense. I am one of six bilion microorganisms on a grain of sand circling a tiny speck of light in an infinite universe. Yep. That helped my mood a lot.
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