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by ourmandave 991 days ago
Or turn around again. Zoom out far enough and maybe there's a view where the pulsar is comparably no more that a lit sparkler.

Note: This isn't an argument for god or whatever. Just thinking on scales where our "laughing in the rain" is a nightmare for ants.

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That's us! We're not bathed in pulsar brilliance, we're picking up the sparse but energetic photons it emits from far far away. We cannot see the "highest energy pulsar" with our naked eyes.
>This isn't an argument for god or whatever...

It better not be. This is a proper orthodox forum.