The Universe Is Big and Life Is Short

The universe is big and life is short. How do you address this question if you have a small telescope? So i began to think about the earth and the patterns on the surface of the earth. What are the biggest patterns? It's the continents and the oceans. And there are few great circles that pass through only oceans, but those are few. Most we'll cross both the land mass and the ocean. You'll find out that the earth has two kinds of patterns, both big.