Before you judge others or consider any absolute truth . . .
“Consider
that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear
less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are
traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body
carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body
are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you
were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human
beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence
of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to
animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just
look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially
considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1%
of the electromagnetic spectrum.” –Sergio Toporek
http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/articles/beware-of-images/
220 km = 130 miles/sec or 7800 miles/hr
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