myrmepropagandist on Nostr: npub1warfj…rvdhm The Red Spot, that great storm of Jupiter is upsetting because it ...
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The Red Spot, that great storm of Jupiter is upsetting because it operates on a time-scale (and physical scale) that is on the boundary of the human and comprehensible and the alienating vastness of most things in space.
It's somehow worse that it's hundreds of years old... not millions. That it has changed size in our lifetimes--
So many things in space are too big to really imagine. The spot is too big and too violent-- but it's within the scale of the human.
The Red Spot, that great storm of Jupiter is upsetting because it operates on a time-scale (and physical scale) that is on the boundary of the human and comprehensible and the alienating vastness of most things in space.
It's somehow worse that it's hundreds of years old... not millions. That it has changed size in our lifetimes--
So many things in space are too big to really imagine. The spot is too big and too violent-- but it's within the scale of the human.