Laan Tungir on Nostr: If you were put at a random spot in the universe, it would be pitch black. The odds ...

If you were put at a random spot in the universe, it would be pitch black.


The odds that you would be close enough to a star or a galaxy to be able to see it are about a billion to 1. In other words, about zero chance you would be able to see anything.

We are in the Milky Way, so we see all those stars in our galaxy at night, but that is unusual. We can also see Andromeda galaxy with the naked eye. Also unusual, although galaxies cluster.


The universe dark.


The odds that you could touch something is better, so cheer up. In deep intergalactic space, [which is most of everything] there is about 1 proton in every 4 cubic meters. You could touch a proton every now and then.


But one proton is about nothing. There isn't much of anything out there either.


GM


P.S. It's really really cold out there too.