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  • The universe is always expanding. So since you made this video, there's more galaxies :P

  • to continue where dan left off, these galaxies are part of clusters, which are themselves part of superclusters. Each of these superclusters line up to create strange lines called filaments. These filaments make up a weblike structure. This weblike structure, If you were to look at the whole thing, would make the filaments seem microscopic. And that's just the KNOWN universe

  • awesome

  • Great video :D

  • dur hahaha wow

  • It may be true that 99% of people on this planet alone are just small specs in this small corner of the Multiverse but at least we a can be proud of what Humanity has acheived in the past 2000 years and what it will acheived in the next 2000 years, ever that or you could just blow up a school or something, just saying.

  • My mom says im not worthless ; - (

  • Are you on crack?

  • Proxima Centauri is closer than Alpha Centauri at about 4.2 light-years

  • I feel more significant now like I've been chosen from a select few :)

  • yay for kilograms

  • Your barely finding out about the size of the universe?! You got to be kidding! First of all we're very significant as a species, we're unique, we're number one! The rest of the stuff your talk about you're just barely finding out! I can't believe it! Come on idiot tell me your kidding.

  • @libraryquiet yes we are unique as a species just like every other species. and we are specs that the rest of the universe has nothing to do with. don't tell me you think we are really special because we're human

  • @puckle3 We are very significant and special as humans. I'll tell you why. First of all the largest known star can't even think..., we can. Galaxies can't see..., we can. And until the day we make contact with another intelligent species our sun is more special than any star in the whole universe because it has an orbiting planet with abundant life! In fact your brain is more vast and complex than the entire cosmos! And it's responsible for everything YOU have ever known! We're numero uno!

  • Okay I'm sorry, but when I heard him say "There's one-hundred BILLION of those too!" talking about galaxes, I had to laugh out loud. It was just funny the way he said it, like "god damn". lol

  • LUV U TOO!

  • dick foo oh yes. what about the microverse? huh huh?

  • We aren't insignificant But where pretty fricken minuscule (an under statement miss-calculated buy ∞) but i kinda already kowed that. AWESOME!!!!

  • so if i dont live in a state, i can be as big as i like? (sarcasm)

  • for the first time, i was put in a state of awe. too bad that start is a worthless speck compaird to the univers.

  • Im bigger than you

  • 8 other planets. fixed.

  • You my friend, are a son of a bitch. You gave me a fucking anxiety attack.

  • You sir, are hilarious, informative, and sincere....in a word. Grrrreeeeaaattt!!!! Carl Sagan would be proud of you.

  • What does the size of the universe have to do with my significance? How is there any correlation?

  • @slack7639 There is complete correlation. You cannot affect anything in the universe, and in a few decades you will disappear and even the smallest traces of you EVER existing will disappear a few centuries after, (and if you're convinced there'll STILL be traces, then give it a billion years,) and the universe will continue to exist, with your time period of existence being nothing but an extremely small percentage of it. And I mean _extremely_ small, even if you consider your entire race.

  • @Blade5468 My physical being is insignificant - Ok, if you look at it that way - but why would I frame it that way? I guess I would if I didn't believe in God. How do you answer this question: What is the chief end of man?

  • @slack7639 I'm not asking you to frame it that way, and it has nothing related to believing in God. It's just fact.

    The chief end of man (which is such stupidly fancy wording, but I mean that hardly matters) is to live as a whole and survive and evolve. The meaning of the individual isn't as great as the meaning of the whole evolving together. Even when one of us dies, the rest of us live on, with that man's contribution added. Of course, then we all die, but there's no going around that :X

  • @Blade5468 An insignificant fact in my opinion. The world & life is too complex to think that you're just an random accident & insignificant. Do you know how complex the DNA is for even the simplest organism? How could that come about from random acts of nature? I think each of us was specifically created by God to have a relationship with Him, to know him, & that you are special, & that He loves you. He's given us free will & makes His presence known in our lives, He wants to let us choose.

  • @slack7639 The world & life ARE too complex for them to not have been carefully created.

    But that doesn't mean the creator is the same concept that people are attaching to books so that they can get their beliefs down society's throat.

    I don't believe in the God that you people (where "you people" refers to whoever started/participates in this whole organized religion ordeal) created, I believe in the God that potentially existed at one point.

  • @Blade5468 Do you accept the historical record of Jesus' existence? It is well established. Then, in the Bible in 1 Corinthians 15:3-6 it says that Jesus rose again on the third day, that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve, after that, he was seen of more than 500 brethren. 500 people saw him! Can your average human rise from the dead? People aren't stupid. They don't believe this for no reason. He also did many other miracles and healings.

  • @slack7639 I don't know or care for what happened, but I know that Christianity is sheer rip off of Judaism and that doesn't have much backing it up aside from a book.

  • @Blade5468 A rip off? Why does our calendar start with the birth of Jesus?

  • @slack7639 Cause you made up some more stories about a fancy Jew, doesn't really matter. I don't care for Christianity at all, but your entire mentality is way too narrow minded. I'm tired of this discussion, sorry.

  • Imagine how much atoms are there in the universe....

  • Fucking amazing, good video.

  • Oh come on. Pluto is so a planet. Forget what those bastards say. Pluto is our outermost planet damnit!

  • @JJAB91 Yes.

  • @LongviewCovers13 Pluto isn't and should not be a planet.

  • @JJAB91 Ok then. I disagree. End of discussion.

  • @LongviewCovers13 What is your argument? What makes you believe Pluto should be a planet?

  • @JJAB91 Why are you so concerned about it? You really that lonely? I left that comment a couple months ago. Wasn't trying to start some huge discussion. Leave it alone.

  • @LongviewCovers13 Wanting a friendly discussion makes me lonely how?

  • @LongviewCovers13

    Lol, hell ya! Pluto revolution!

  • @LongviewCovers13 There are many Kuiper belt objects bigger than pluto. :/

  • is it possible to hollow out a ball of particles??

  • watches outro *gets seizure*

  • omg i was laughing so hard. i mean i already new how tiny i was but how he put it was just fcking greate

  • You really did put me in a state of awe... 0_0

  • MIND BLOWN!!!!!!!

  • But irony, nothingness is always something, im so small but im something

    how much fear does de biggest thing(universe) could feel(if it could feel) to see the smallest thing. And viceversa. That's why it's not to know.

  • No, For every grain of sand and dirt there are 100,000 galaxys.

  • @spaghettiisFOB 100,000,000,000 is just a random number of measurement that Dan or Dan's astronomy teacher decided to use. The actual number has not yet been predicted and probably won't be any time soon, so stop making random figures up.

  • 3:00 I honestly thought you were going to say pluto, then I remembered "oh yeah..."

  • That's exactly why I believe there are aliens. If the universe is that huge, what are the odds we're the only living things in it?

  • The outro scared the crap outta me!!!!

  • wtf! pluto was discovered before 2008...

  • @andreasfr1 pluto isnt concidered a planet any more as of 2006.. it is a concidered a dwarf planet.. so now there are 8 planets 5 dwarf planets and count less numbers of small bodies (comets and other spacy things)

  • @USMC4life1991 oh... well that sucks... I liked pluto :/

  • I already knew that. but thanx for sharing

  • u made me feel extremely small........GOOD JOB!!!!!!!

  • this sounds a lot like what douglas adams wrote... also, there are way more than a hundred billion galaxies. in fact, one of the reasons that we're blinded to the matter is because of dark matter. but regardless of that, the universe is actually too big to comprehend. even the way you did it, you've still compared humans as some form of mass. really, if you would understand the size, you would need a large map of the universe, with an invisible dot labelled, 'you are here.'

  • I think I preferred Dan when he was in college and less optimistic. :D

  • This actually made me feel better:D

  • The only thing worthless is your meditations on life and its meaning.

  • my head went splodie like he said it would!!!

  • T.T am a lump of flesh

    lol :P

    lump xD (haha funny)

  • haha so true

  • Isn't the universe ever expanding as well?? and not only is it expanding, its not even expanding as fast as it can because what is speculated to be "dark matter" that is holding it back

  • this is the most stupid thing ever but i agree a little cause everything above us is bigger than us!

  • lol my dad bought a mother's day card for me to sign today and it said 1 in 1 milliion on it and im thinking "it's mother's day, im supposed to compliment my mom, not insult her!"

  • my dicks biggter

  • this was supposed to make me feel bad? sry, didnt work!

  • oh jstu by the way, this is jsut in the obsarvable universe, waht we can see. we cant see further becasue light only travels so far and we can only realy see from the start of the universe

  • i already knew this :P

  • i'm justin beiber. am i still an insignifigant speck?

  • @hobo8675309 that makes you not even able to qualify for an insignificant speck. 

  • @hotgluefingerboard11 now that i think of it,im not justin beiber. im obama

  • @hobo8675309 now you're just a slightly larger insignificant speck.

  • search "Star Size Comparison HD" for a cool animated video on size comparison.

  • yet we have the mind to know all this about something we never seen and still have room to learn more...

  • I know loads of people probably said this but:

    Your mom is so fat that she isn't an insignificant speck.

  • There is a star that makes the sun like the a dwarf star... called VY Canis Majoris... the largest star we know about right know.. look it up on googl the f ing thing is HUGE!!!!

  • I love it :D Subscribed!

  • you actually destroyed my mind xD

  • I am actually in a county, in a metropolitan area! So take it bitch! Not all of us are insignificant, some of us don't live in cities!

  • i already knew that but everytime i hear that load of information from someone i feel like ive just been stomped by a billion kilometer wide foot....

  • hey i have my own gravitational pull its extremely miniscule but truth is we all have a gravitational pull explaination from physics every mass has a gravitational pull i do not mean if every human animal if put together would be enough to create a blackhole i mean we all have a pull

  • And I mean please learn to use punctuation.

  • I know how to use punctuation but its youtube who gives a fuck.

  • everybody in the world has a calling and can do something great to better the world ^,^

  • But the world is only a larger insignificant spec.

  • i can describe all 6 minutes of this

    WTF!??!?!

  • thanks for the confidence boost, dan!

  • i'm now more confused then i have ever been, thanks Dan

  • DAMN someone's upset

  • why do you call it an orange button when clearly its yellow????

    (with brown letters but... you get what im saying right?)

  • lol, i already knew this

  • Somewhat in response to your newest video Dan, this is one of the biggest reasons I'm an atheist. With the universe so vastly immense there is almost a certainty of life elsewhere. I can't imagine us(humans)... as insignificant as we are, in the same form as the creator of the universe. If there is some "higher power" it is far beyond our comprehension and almost certainly not like us in the slightest.

  • Then don't follow that religion, look at the facts and come up with your own beliefs. This is why I'm Agnostic.

  • wow i am insignificant unless you put it into proportions with other things that are smaller than us

  • YAAAAY! HORRAY OR THE TINY AND INSIGNIFICANT!! but, i must point out something a great doctor once told me. a person is a person. no matter how small. ^.^ oh... excuse me... i'm tearing up... so meaningful!

  • why than k u for calling me anINSIGNIFICANT WORTHLESS SPECK

  • ...And we are made up of body parts,and those body parts are made up of fat and bones and muscles and stuff, and that stuff is made up of cells and those cells are made up of something....it goes on and on!!!

  • holy cow that is incredible. i bet there are even bigger groups of galaxies or even groups of universes... that is absolutely crazy..

  • I think you fail to realize something very important.

    This entire video is about size, not significance.

    You are implying that size has to do with significance which is in fact not true.

  • I feel like crying now

  • im sry! lol its ok :)

  • you made me cry. :,-(

  • its ok! your alright! *wipes away your tears* better now?

  • really? i probably live in a house?

  • But it doesn't stop there. Throughout the universe, there are giant walls made up of superclusters. There are more superclusters in 1 wall than you can ever imagine. There are about 10 known walls and in between those walls, there are ENORMOUS spaces of empty nothingness.

  • Then you have clusters, which consist of a a shitload of galaxies that are 'near' to eachother. And guess what, there are 100 billion if those too! And we can even go further. Superclusters are enourmous clouds of clusters. Each supercluster consists of apporximately 100 billion clusters.. O.O

  • good things come in small packages.

  • This all is very very true. 1 person alone is insignifigant, but together, we're a pretty big community & I mean every single person on this Earth.

    And we can't really be THAT insignificant if we're causing global warming, which is obviously a very bad thing but it proves my point.

    Together all of us, we can do a lot. But thats not to say we're bigger then the sun or the earth or the Universe in general but we can make a pretty big impact.

    Just sayin'.

  • no.

  • You learned all this in 1 astronomy class Dan?

    Wow, I'm not ready for college.

  • when you said "Anyone in the mood for McDonalds?" , I was eating McDonalds

  • when i first saw this i was insulted. then i played spore and i agreed!

  • I've seen a lot of your videos, Dan, and this one is my favorite, I favorite this when you first posted it.

  • you are much better than my teachers.

    Sometimes when I look in the sky I remind myself that I am just an atom to some other bigger person

    ...but than what are atoms to us?

  • I'm taking Astronomy right now, and I'll agree. It's really depressing. it's why I pretend the world is flat, or disc-like... And the stars are tears in the celestial dome above us... Makes me feel much better...

  • i always think of how does the universe end or what does it come to?!?! it really bothers me to think about and this question has bugged me for as long as i can remember. do u have/know any theories anyone? thx

  • I can't even fathom the size of the universe. It makes my head hurt x_x

  • We ARE significant. YOU being able to read this is a HUMAN and you process billions of commands EVERY SECOND! Heart beat, reading this, tempture,colour,sound,touch...­..BUZZZAAABLAH! Your part of the most, intelligent species on the planet, the MOST addaptive species, you can choose to swim, or stay on land. Your an amazing knowledgeable creature, teaching even the slickest cat to read this would take 100years, but you only took about 1min(all asuming your a normal human.)

  • So how many galaxies are there? There are 100 billion of those too!

    That made me rofl.

  • Hate to break it to you but there are far more than 100 billion galaxy's.

  • @JJAB91 Tell me at least 20.

  • @JJAB91

    At least a google of them...

  • @JJAB91 Hate to break it to you, but there's no apostrophe in "galaxies" in this context.

  • @randomgal1322 My mistake.

  • this video is so lame :(

  • you suck, have you never thought about something like this ? the you are even more insignificant than the average person.

    how fucking closeminded are you?

  • Ummm..yea...i knew that

  • actually not every star has a solar system

  • If a star doesn't have a solar system then I has to be the most smallest star in the universe!

  • I don't think that you are part of the most intelligent species on the planet considering the fact that you were trying to sound smart and mis-spelled quite a few words in your comment. FAIL

  • Whatever. I wasn't trying to SOUND intelligent, just make a point. Right? Don't waste your life, Don't even read this, are you reading this? Then your wasting your life, get a job.

  • every star has a center of gravity. even if the smallest rock orbits it, it's considered a solar system.

  • I didn't know that that was considered a solar system but now that i think about it makes sense.

  • I still feel special and significant :D

    dose this mean I lose?

    your not insignificant to me Mr. Dan Brown ^_^

    not to me!

  • wow. i do feel insignificant.....

  • yay i want 15 galaxies (im gonna build a mac donalds in my galaxies)

  • 1:11 you forgot continents!!!!

  • 91,850 years it would take to walk from the sun to neptune.

  • Hmmm... well, I wonder how the neutrinos would feel if they were intelligent life. I'd be like a universe to them. Everyone knows The Dan Brown Universe is the largest though. Top of the charts.

  • Well, I don't exactly feel insignificant, just rather amazed that in all of that space, we exist period... when as far as we know few solar systems can actually sustain carbon based life, which makes me feel pretty special to be here :) Insignificant speck and all. Another thing to point out.... as the universe is infinitely big, so is it infinitely small...

  • i dont feel insignificant. just small.

    just the fact u call us lumps of flesh makes me feel insignificant QQ

  • what about paricles atoms and molacules where do they fit? lol

  • comforting that we're just lumps of flesh...and this is a really hard science lesson to follow o.O

  • you forgot to mention that the sun is in pretty much the lowest class of stars for size, there are stars out there that are to the sun what the earth is to the sun

  • galaxies aren't even the biggest things in the universe and there are stars that are waaaaay bigger than the sun.

  • packs of galaxies, superpacks of galaxies.... ect...

  • subscribe to dan brown!

  • YouTube isn't letting me post comments. :(

  • Apparently it's because I have a link, but it won't let me post it and putting "(dot)" instead of "." isn't working. >:\

    ANYWAY.

    This kind of stuff totally freaks me out every time I look at it. I like feeling small, it makes me feel safe. :) Anyway, I freaking love astronomy. Dan Brown, YOU ARE COOL.

  • wooow... /wrists. xD

  • lol you talk so much you go red XD

  • ...says the liberal

  • think abt all the power recquired to make all that XD, could it even be possible for atoms ect. to have done it, even if it was powerful enough they wouldve had to have all came 2 1 point rite? somthin 2 thing abt

  • You seem to rely on size quite a bit in this video as a way of proving our "insignificance". How does size matter? Look at bacteria. The staff infection alone kills 60,000 to 80,000 a year. Is that insignificant?

  • i feel like shit know

  • Well I feel so impossibly midgitized. Omg Im a midgit :'(

  • poor pluto

  • the ended made the was good, i knew all this already but it still made me feel insignificant and a mental image of something zooming on me form the edge of the universe,

  • i'm 6'2'' and i feel tiny.

  • anf that's how the world is big :D

  • i got confused

  • well...I guess I'm not an average viewer of his...i have less than 50 kilos...hehe

  • o i know how dan feels when i watch thats how the universe on the history channel i feel so small

  • omg i love you.

    :D