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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Too autistic for this. Why would it be unsettling? Mercury is much smaller than the sun. If it was suddenly bigger in proportion to the sun, then I'd be unsettled.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't exactly unsettle me, but pondering the mind-boggling scale of celestial bodies and the cosmos can certainly be... humbling, I guess?

I had a co-worker a while back who couldn't talk about the great scale of the universe cause he'd get freaked out. It didn't come up much, but when it did, he'd be like, "Please stop, it's stressing me out" so we'd change the subject.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

That guy goes to so many birthday parties

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