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The Total Perspective Vortex is allegedly the most horrible torture device to which a sentient being can be subjected.

When you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it there's a tiny little speck, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says, "You are here."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker%2...

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It's pretty great if you're Zaphod Beeblebrox, though, since then it just confirms that the entire universe centers on you.

Well in that specific case the universe was actually centered around Beeblebrox since he was in the boss office who was on a cruise vacation. In his office.

I dunno man. I'm already quite aware of how insignificant I am on a cosmic scale. So it would be interesting to gain a proper sense of scale of the ridiculous vastness of space.

I recommend watching the Numberphile Video on Grahams Number.

I think once you start to grasp how truly unimaginable large this number is, you get a comparable feeling to how the cosmic scale compares to us in an emotional way.

I've seen that one, it's really good :-)

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