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Originally Posted by evman150
I love these incredibly banal events that somehow become popular hits in the media and internet.
The universe is truly remarkable and there are so many fascinating phenomena to experience and learn about, it's a shame that it's only things like this that make it to the popular consciousness.
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I do not think it is Banal at all. And I say that as a very well equipped amateur astronomer.
I think the fact that a planet nearly identical in size to the Earth, being dwarfed in the shadow of our relatively small and unremarkable life giving star 100,000,000 km's behind it, truly gives us a small shred of understanding of how minute and precious we really are in the whole scheme of the universe.
I think it is a humbling, yet spectacular event.