"Now, I would like just to give a quick visual perspective on the idea that we are at the center of the universe. There is a recent Hubble Space Telescope photograph of an obscure edge of the Virgo Cluster some 45 million light-years away. This is a giant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, but almost everything else you see, all these other things, are not stars in our galaxy, and not galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, but galaxies behind the Virgo Cluster; and there are some hundred billion other galaxies in the known universe. Now, suppose you were an intergalactic traveler seeking interesting galaxies, and you were told that the beings who are the point of the universe live on one of those galaxies. 'See that little one right there? That's the center of the universe! And they are the reason the whole universe of 100 billion galaxies was made. Just ask them!' What's your sense of them?

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets ""Now, I would like just to give a quick visual perspective on the idea that we are at the center of the universe. There is a recent Hubble Space Telescope photograph of an obscure edge of the Virgo Cluster some 45 million light-years away. This is a giant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, but almost everything else you see, all these other things, are not stars in our galaxy, and not galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, but galaxies behind the Virgo Cluster; and there are some hundred billion other galaxies in the known universe. Now, suppose you were an intergalactic traveler seeking interesting galaxies, and you were told that the beings who are the point of the universe live on one of those galaxies. 'See that little one right there? That's the center of the universe! And they are the reason the whole universe of 100 billion galaxies was made. Just ask them!' What's your sense of them?" in the context of "Carl Sagan, from the foreword to Life in the Universe: Essays (1995)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.