Have you ever pondered just how small you are?

I like to start small and work my way out. Firstly imagine yourself stood in your living room, picture the space you occupy compared to the volume of the room. Now imagine yourself stood in the middle of the country you live in, just think how long you would have to walk for to reach the border. Now imagine how many times over you could fit your country into your continent (this bit mainly applies to Europeans). Already you are completely dwarfed. Now picture the world, it’s surface is 510,072,000 km2, your feet probably occupy 300 cm2.

So that’s you. A tiny speck on the surface of the Earth. But remember, this huge rock we live on is over 300 000 times smaller than the sun. We are hurtling around in nothingness millions of miles away from the next planet. Billions of miles from the edge of our solar system, even further to the next one. Even our galaxy is a speck in the universe.

In terms of mass we are completely insignificant.