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1. Katie Mack (astrokatie@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 05:05:25 UTC Katie Mack

   If you ever get awed and overwhelmed by the incomprehensible vastness of space, just keep in mind that it’s expanding, more rapidly minute by minute, and to the best of our understanding it will never ever stop

   • CharlieG (charles@gascoigne.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 05:09:47 UTC CharlieG

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     @AstroKatie Is it possible to say where we are in terms of the centre of the universe? Presumably at the centre of the *observable* universe, but overall?

   • Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 05:16:12 UTC Dana Fried

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     @AstroKatie I also find it comforting that most of what we can currently see in the universe we could never reach, because it's receding so fast we could never actually catch it

   • Pyperkub (pyperkub@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 06:08:26 UTC Pyperkub

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     @AstroKatie I wonder if you'll get any (wait for it...)

     ..."push back" on that claim ;)

   • Jon (bikingviking@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 06:16:46 UTC Jon

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     • Nina By Nature

     @AstroKatie

     @716ninala

   • Lukas Simonis (lsimonis@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 06:18:31 UTC Lukas Simonis

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     @AstroKatie

   • danwest (danwest@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 06:27:02 UTC danwest

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     @AstroKatie AstroKatie brings gravity to the expanding vastness of social media.

   • Manic Pixie Dream Grandpa (sboger@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 07:56:51 UTC Manic Pixie Dream Grandpa

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     @AstroKatie As the time I have left closes in on me, the space around expands.

   • jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 09:23:46 UTC jwz

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     @AstroKatie Thanks I hate it!

   • Kapitän Clownfeuer (rasur@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 09:26:59 UTC Kapitän Clownfeuer

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     @AstroKatie no ultimate crunch then? disappointed...

   • ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® (timforgot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 10:15:24 UTC ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs®

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     @AstroKatie because we're on the butthole end of a black hole, inside it

   • Dom Brasted (dombrasted@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 12:46:37 UTC Dom Brasted

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     @AstroKatie
     Last year, my 8yo son asked, "How can the universe be infinite? If it's constantly expanding , it must have an edge. "

   • Torstein (torsteinv@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 13:31:43 UTC Torstein

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     @AstroKatie So, I should be even more overwhelmed and scared since it's all gonna end in ice-death of the universe. Every star and galaxy distancing themselves more and more from each other, burning out and leaving an eternal pitch black, ice cold and dead universe. I need something to cheer me up now 😔

   • Rob Prather (robprather@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 14:30:32 UTC Rob Prather

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     @AstroKatie I find this stuff fascinating but can’t really grasp what it’s expanding into.

   • james_tallon@mastodon.social's status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 15:15:19 UTC james_tallon

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     @AstroKatie Honestly, same.

   • Pxtl (pxtl@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 15:34:03 UTC Pxtl

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     @AstroKatie if you could not give me a mid-morning dose of existential dread about the mortality of the universe itself, that would be great.