“We pointed the most powerful telescope ever built by human beings at absolutely nothing, for no reason other then we were curious and discovered that we occupy a very tiny place in the heavens.”

If you haven’t already stumbled across this video elsewhere, please find yourself five minutes of time and watch it. I know, most of you have probably already seen it, that’s what I get for not going through my “blog this” bookmarks for months at a time.

(Note that YouTube has a HD version available, view this video on YouTube and click the “HD” button)