Looking further into space than ever before

November 9, 2008 Comedians are astute social observers and their perspective is often refreshing and enlightening. In an interview with the Guardian recently, actor/comedian Jim Carey said, “it's such arrogance that human beings think we're the point. I always thought we were just a speck - you see those pictures from the Mars Rover and you go: 'Speck!' There are ants on my property that think they own it, that they have the deeds. In support of Jim’s hypothesis is this image – the deepest ultraviolet image of the Universe ever taken - one billion times fainter than can be seen by the unaided eye. At these depths, the sky is almost completely covered by galaxies, each one, like our own galaxy, the Milky Way, home of hundreds of billions of stars. Like Jim said, “speck” …

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