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Do we consider ourselves too important?

The Universe is a huge place and it's obvious that most of us have no idea just how big it is.  Keep it real here - the earth alone is over 25,000 miles round (in circumference).   In a normal car, non-stop, it would take you about 18 days to circle the entire planet.  Using a more realistic number of hours per day of driving, 10, it would take you 41 days to circle the entire globe.

That doesn't sound too bad.  But......

Think about the number of people on this planet and how many you will pass as you take your around-the-planet drive.  If you really think about this, you should really begin to realize the importance of just a single person like yourself.  There are about six and one half billion (6,500,000,000) people currently alive on this planet.  This is an absolutely huge number, and it means that if you lined everyone up in a straight line along your driving path around the planet, you will see 260,000 people for every mile or 43 people for every foot you travel!

Yet another way to think about this is if you actually had $6,500,000,000 dollars in your pocket.  How upset would you be if you lost just a single dollar!

More to come!