https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRHIGuoH6ic

Imagine holding a common pin at arm's length, with the pin head lined up with a dark patch of the night sky, just above the Big Dipper. That's an incredibly tiny, tiny patch of sky, right? 

That's the part of the sky that the Hubble Space Telescope focused on for ten nights. The resulting photograph is called the Hubble Deep Field. 

As I watch the two-minute video, and gaze in awe at the majesty of the universe, and the truly noble accomplishment of humanity, I think back to the sheer madness that captures our attention. It's pulled in so many directions, sometimes unconsciously as we're manipulated by algorithms, but other times we are so willing to waste our precious, finite time on the pettiest and most pointless shit. And I'm not exempt from these shallow pursuits. 

We traffic in the most insane theories, ideologies, dogmas, and beliefs; it's all an immense opportunity cost. The greatest story ever told is in the night sky, and in the images that Hubble is providing, and humanity just isn't interested.

Peter T.