Mar 2, 2010

Around 13 Billion Years Ago, the comments on things that I post on the internet were contained in a tiny ball that could fit in the palm of your hand.

A couple of weeks ago the American Museum of Natural History (@atAMNH) tweeted:

I copied this into my notebook, as I sometimes do with weird little facts and phrases that I like, and also posted an inverted (space!) version on my Tumblr and Flickr.

There it sat in relative obscurity for the next few weeks, but today when I was checking my Flickr it reported a pretty big spike in views of this image tracing back to Tumblr.

It turns out that a Tumblr user named Blua who “doesn’t want to be famous on the internet” accidentally made me kind of famous on the internet by setting the ball rolling on over 700 likes and reblogs of my silly notebook page. Anyway, what I wanted to point out is how freaking hilarious some of the comments are—as in, they actually made me laugh out loud.

The fatalist:

*a tiny ball that could fit in the palm of your hand [whose gravitational field was so strong it would suck you in at a infinitely violent speed, rip your frail body apart, and most likely turn you into some inhuman matter after the big bang]. —insertironicsentiment

The realist:

except for, wouldn’t you also be in that ball? —auntumnwake

The romantic:

If i had that ball, i’d wrap it in ribbons and bows and give it to you. —richpickings

The skeptic:

no, i’m sure it wasn’t. —dvndvy

The evolution evangelist:

So really, I love this. I think the universe is so amazing and cool. It’s even more amazing that all these seemingly coincidence atoms created us! I honestly cannot understand why religious people don’t believe in evolution. Where did Cain’s wife come from, huhhh? Scientists often say that learning more of the universe makes them believe in God even more. And that’s true. The universe is such an awesome spectacular place. Full of mystery and some explainable phenomena. I can’t even contain how cool it is. :] —justlikeamy

The Quantum Mechanical theorist:

& then the ” Big Bang ” happened & what is holding the universe from expanding is called Dark Matter. —kdgutierrez

The teenage girl:

amazingggggggggggggggggg <3 —taniaa

Not even sure what to make of this one:

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state haha love the Big Bang theory :) —need-want-love

Echoing my sentiments:

This is somehow inspiring to me. —nikkiraffail

The Machiavellian:

i guess thats pretty cool… i could be the master of universe… woah :D —lehani

The pessimist:

now is just giant complicated shitness —reitarawrs

Thank you, internet. Have I mentioned how ridiculous and great I think you are?

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