A Sense of Perspective .....
Posted By Rob Millard - 2 Comments -
Here's a series of pictures that my friend and colleague Nick Jarrett-Kerr emailed around Edge International recently, with the admonition:
"For any who are in danger of being tempted to think how great we are, take a few seconds to check this out and be humble!!!"
The size of the Earth, relative to our closest neighbours in the solar system:
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OK - obviously not enough to extinguish any residual feelings of megalomania, so let's compare ourselves to the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune:
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Still unimpressed? OK, let's see how we stack up against our sun:
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Yes, that hardly-visible speck is our earth, but wait ... how does our sun stack up against other stars? Let's start with Sirius (the brightest star in the night-time sky,) Pollux and Arcturus:
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And then finally, how Arcturus compares to Rigel (the brightest star in constellation Orion,) Aldebaran and red giants Betelgeuse and Antares:
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It's important for strategists to be able to maintain a sense of perspective. But this kind of "perspective" puts a whole new meaning to the word, doesn't it?
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the world of the internal, the spiritual part of man, dwarfs anything found in the universe, the world of matter.
OMG!!
