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Re:Hubble Captures Supernova 1987A Trace Shock Wave by ars on Sunday September 05, 2010 @02:15AM (#1664117)
How can you say inconsequential when as far as we know we are the only beings that can even appreciate this supernova?

Size != Importance.

We might be small, but we are quite important.

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Re:Hubble Captures Supernova 1987A Trace Shock Wave by aw3c2 on Sunday September 05, 2010 @05:05AM (#1664251)
You are not important if only you think so.
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Re:Hubble Captures Supernova 1987A Trace Shock Wave by Jach on Sunday September 05, 2010 @05:59AM (#1664296)
Important to whom? The universe itself is incapable of assigning 'importance', so saying that something is unimportant to the universe is just as wrong as saying something is important to the universe. Humans are important to humans, and that's what matters. If only I think I'm important, then I am, to me.
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