Next time you hear someone argue we are on the verge of becoming Gods, you might want to point them this image comparing the size of the Earth and the Sun. The realization that Earth would fit over a million times in the volume of the Sun kind of makes you modest, no?


Although humanity influences the Earth so radically that researchers now speak of a new geological era called the Anthropocene, all life on Earth including our existence still entirely depends on an entity on which we have no control whatsoever: the Sun. No, we are not the Masters of the Universe.


Peculiar image of the week via hstry.co.

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