possible by Squarespace. Make your next

move with a beautiful website from Squarespace.

This is Earth.

You live here on this planet somewhere and everything

that you've ever known is located right here,

but just how small exactly is Earth

when compared to the scale of the entire universe?

Let's start by zooming out to

where we can see our nearest cosmic neighbor, The Moon.

You may think that the

moon is very close to Earth since it

dominates our night skies. But in reality

the moon isn't this close to our planet,

it's actually about this far away.

384,400 kilometers away from you right now on average.

You could fit 30 entire

Earths in between this distance and if

you somehow were able to drive a car at

a constant 100 km/h speed, it would take

you about 160 days to drive the entire distance.

Despite this incredible distance however,

12 humans have actually set foot here

representing the farthest away that any

individual human has ever been away from

the Earth and one of humanity's greatest achievements.

This is what the Earth

would look like from there, if you were

standing there with them.

And if you wanted to communicate with somebody back

at home, it would take a message about

2 1/2 seconds to travel between

you and them since that's how fast the

speed of light can travel at.

This is a photo that was taken on Mars and that

tiny dot that you see there is Earth as

seen from the Martian surface.

On average, Mars is an incredible 225

million kilometers away from Earth but

that distance can be as high as 401 million kilometers

That means that whenever humanity finally gets around to

landing a human on a planet,

that person will be 986 times further away

from Earth than the astronauts who

landed on the moon were.

In addition the time delay for sending a message from

Mars back to Earth isn't just two and a

half seconds, it's actually more like 20

minutes each direction.

Which would render instant communication in the

event of an emergency impossible.

When we zoom out even further away we can find

the Voyager 1 space probe,

which is the farthest away man-made object from Earth

it is currently located 138 AU's from The Earth.

AU meaning astronomical unit,

which is the distance between the

Earth and the Sun,

which means that Voyager 1

is 138 times further away from us than the Sun is.

At some point on its long voyage,

Voyager 1 turned its camera around and took this photograph.

It may not look

like much at first, but in my opinion

this is the greatest single photograph

ever taken in all of human history.

This tiny pale blue dot is Earth and I don't

think that anybody has ever said

something as amazing about this

as Carl Sagan when he said,

"If you look at it, you see a dot.

That's here. That's home. That's us.

On it, everyone you ever heard of,

every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives.

The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings.

Thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines.

Every hunter and every forager.

Every hero and coward.

Every creator and destroyer of civilizations.

Every king and every peasant.

Every young couple in love.

Every hopeful child.

Every mother and every father.

Every inventor and explorer.

Every teacher of morals.

Every corrupt politician.

Every superstar.

Every Supreme Leader.

Every saint and sinner in the

history of our species lived there,

on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Voyager 1 is currently traveling at 17

kilometers every single second, but even

at that speed it won't break out of the

reach of our solar system for another 30,000 years.

Once we go beyond the solar system,

we arrive in our interstellar neighborhood.

Here we shift to the Lightyear unit of measurement which is

the distance that light travels in a

full earth year or about 9.461 trillion kilometers.

The star Proxima Centauri here,

is the closest other star to us

other than our Sun, but it's still 4.24

light-years away from us.

To put that into perspective,

if it was heading in

the right direction, it would still take

Voyager 1 over 70,000 years to reach it.

In other words, if you drove your car at

100 kilometers an hour

like in our previous example to The Moon it

would take over six times longer than

the entire age of the universe is

just to finally get there and it wouldn't

even exist still when you arrived.

When we zoom out even further, we can see the entire Milky Way galaxy.

Inside of which, Earth is located right here.

This yellow dot is the farthest extent of humanity's

radio broadcasts throughout history.

Which means that any possible aliens who live

outside of this range are totally

unaware of humanity's presence.

It's complete silence outside of this yellow

dot as far as we are currently aware, but

the entire galaxy spans over 100,000

light-years from end to end.

There are over 100 billion stars and over 100

billion planets inside of our galaxy, but

you have never seen the full glory of

the galaxy at night.

Because 99% of the

stars that you can see with the naked

eye are limited to this small tiny

region right here.

But even this massive galaxy is nothing

compared to the rest of what's out to there.

Zooming out even further and we

arrive at the local group of galaxies.

A collection of 54 different galaxies that

is about 10 million light-years across.

But zooming out even further and we can

see the Virgo Supercluster.

Of which the local group here is just a tiny segment of.

There are at least 100 other groups

of galaxies just like our own local

group inside of here.

And the distance from one side to the other is a

mind-numbing 110 million light-years

But even the massive Virgo supercluster is

nothing but a quiet and tiny lobe of the

great Laniakea Supercluster.

An enormous structure that is home to our galaxies

as well as 100,000 other galaxies.

The distance from one side to the other is

520 million light-years.

But from even there, we can zoom out all the way to the

entire observable universe and see that

even the Titanic Laniakea Supercluster

is just a tiny and insignificant part of everything.

This is the observable universe and it contains everything that we know of.

It is home to at least

2 trillion different individual galaxies.

Which together contain more stars than there are grains

of sand on the entire Earth.

The distance from Earth to any side of the observable universe

is 46.5 billion light-years.

Which means that the entire width

is 93 billion light-years across.

What's perhaps even more interesting however is

what actually lies beyond the observable universe.

Keep in mind that the

observable universe is all that we can currently see.

And it's entirely possible

that the rest of the universe outside of it

is vastly larger and more fantastic

than we can possibly ever imagine.

We simply don't know what else is out there.

Because the light from these

incredibly distant places has not yet

had enough time in the universe's

history to reach us yet, back on Earth

and the light from some places may never reach us at all.

Because some parts of

space very far away from Earth are

expanding away from us faster than the speed of light.

That means that the light

from these places will never in an

infinite amount of time, reach Earth.

Meaning that even if Humanity is eternal

and exists forever, there will still be

an unknown number of places in the

universe that we will never know about or ever see.

So it is very likely that

It's unbelievably enormous as it seems,

the observable universe is just a tiny

slice of what we can currently see of

the entire universe.

According to the Theory of Cosmic Inflation that was

proposed by Dr. Alan Guth.

If it is assumed that cosmic inflation began at

10 to the -37th of a second after the Big Bang

and with the

assumption that the size of the universe

before inflation began was equal to its

age times the speed of light.

Then this would seem to suggest that at the present day,

the entire universe is 150

sextillion times larger than the

observable universe.

That number for reference looks like this.

With this many zeros,

let this number sink in for just a moment.

This would be similar to you

thinking that the entire observable universe.

Everything that you could see

was the size of a light bulb, but then

realizing that in reality, the entire universe

is larger than the former planet of Pluto.

Imagine a light bulb in the center

of Pluto, but we inside the light bulb

we're totally unaware that Pluto existed outside of it.

And that's a similar situation to this.

We are all so unbelievably small,

but you shouldn't

worry, because all that means is that

there is so much left out there for us

to discover together.

This video was made

possible by Squarespace.

If you're wanting to create a new website for your next project,

Squarespace is the absolute

easiest way of doing it.

I've used them

before for several different projects

and what I think is best about them is

that you don't need any programming

skills in order to make a beautiful website.

It's incredibly easy and can be

done in just a few minutes and there's

always somebody to call 24/7 if you ever need any help.

You can create a blog,

a store, a page for your music or art or

really just about anything.

And what's best of all is that you can get 10% off

your first order by using the code,

REALLIFELORE over at squarespace.com/reallifelore

That also means that

you'll be directly supporting my channel.

So please go ahead and check them out at

squarespace.com/reallifelore

As always. Thank you so much for watching this video.

If you enjoyed it, I sincerely

hope that you'll share it with a friend

or two and give this video either a like or a dislike.

You can subscribe to my

channel for content just like this in

the future by clicking here.

You can visit my Patreon by clicking here if

you're interested in supporting the channel.