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Episode 3: Chapter 2 "Closer to Reality"

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Is That a Galaxy or a Star?

As i moved the cross hairs to one nondescript galaxy after another, some whimsical thoughts occurred to me. I wondered whether i would be the first and last human being ever to pay conscious attention to a particular galaxy. And so far as we know, it seems as though the physical universe is infinite, but then there is the philosophical magnitude of a cluster of galaxies. The drastic mental geer change made me laugh. My grandiose speculations about the deep meaning of what i was seeing had turned out to be, in regard to this particular object, nothing at all. Suddenly, there were no people in that that image. There were there was no culture. There was no history

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