Our universe is huge. I mean, really huge. I want you think of the biggest thing you can come up with. Now multiply that by a billion. And now again by another billion. Even then, whatever you’re probably thinking of is taking up less than 0.00000000000000000001% of the space in the universe. Seriously, it’s that big.

To put it how tiny we are in comparison to some of the other larger known objects out there, someone made a quick minute-and-a-half long video that shows the size of a few of the planets in our solar system, and then gradually shows you bigger and bigger known objects. It starts out with Mercury, which is about half the diameter of Earth, and goes all the way up to VV Cephei, which is….well, watch the video and you’ll see.

I mentioned in the post about Black Out Band that you may want to kill yourself after hearing their music. I submit that there is no way God could exist, simply by reason that if he could show any mercy, they would spontaneously vaporize and we would never have to spend the rest of our lives in fear - fear of hearing them sing again. This video is sort of the same in that when it’s over you’ll probably want to kill yourself, but rather than it be out of fear, it will be for the fact that no matter how much effort you put into your 9-to-5 job, or how much “Good will towards men” you exhibit in your incredibly short life, you will never mean a goddamn thing.

Also, as you’re watching it, try and keep track of how much smaller the Earth is. For reference, the Earth is 12,756km in diameter. I’ve also included some fun facts after the video but to keep the suspense going, don’t read them until after you’ve seen the clip.

Fun Facts:

• VV Cephei is a supergiant star, meaning that it is between 1600 and 1900 times the size of our own sun (you can see this in more detail by looking at the following picture - you may have to click the picture to show it to proper scale and/or you may have to scroll to the left to find the sun)
• VV Cephei is so large that if it was in the center of our solar system, not only would our own planet’s orbit be inside of it, but so would Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn too
• Every planetary body shown after the sun is a star (the darker orange, the “cooler”; the bluer/whiter, the hotter)
• It would take a normal human being nearly thirty weeks (207 days) to walk around the Earth once; it would take the same person one hundred and sixty seven thousand, eight hundred and sixty-three years (61,270,000 days) to do the same on VV Cephei
• Scientists believe that while it is the largest known star, there are more than likely thousands of others (or more) out there that have yet to be discovered that dwarf VV Cephei by many, many orders of magnitude

Do the mortgage payments that have been stressing you out lately seem so important now? Didn’t think so.