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2026-07-23 17:35 UTC

Reflecting this morning on the fact that the vast majority of reality operates on a scale that is either too quick or too slow, or too small or too large, for us to perceive. If we could see things as they truly are, it would be more than we could take in.

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@tbortels@infosec.exchange 2026-07-23 17:40

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange Related to that: https://youtu.be/YhwkaH1-S7Q TLDW: You have never seen, with your own eyes, a "typical" star. Every star we see with the naked eye is either extraordinarily bright, or in one case extraordinarily close (and still not typical). The vast majority of the stars in the milky way galaxy - red dwarves - are too far and dim to see with the naked eye.

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@cynblogger@sfba.social 2026-07-23 17:50

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange SO true! Rocks bend, fold & flow, blossoms open & droop in their own time, mountains are growing, continents collapsing, galaxies expanding, species dying — and we perceive none of it with our human senses.

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@averagesecurityguy@infosec.exchange 2026-07-23 23:39

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange [H]e has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:11

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