[steve_adams_86]

It's humbling to consider what an incredibly low-energy state we humans live in. The universe is capable of such immense energetic outputs. We're humming along at energy levels approaching zero compared to most bodies floating around in space. Crazy.

[conradev]

If you consider orders of magnitude from the Planck scale all the way up to the observable universe, we are actually somewhere in the middle

[steve_adams_86]

I hadn't considered that! That makes me wonder... Is that likely to be true for most forms of life? I wonder if there's some physical constraint that makes this likely. I suppose I won't know in my lifetime. It's also probably not so significant that we're close to the middle; maybe it's just my ape brain finding significance in arbitrary figures.

If I were to guess before, I think I would have estimated humanity was in the lower 10%. I suppose I was mostly thinking in terms of the Kelvin scale.

It's fascinating to consider how staggering the scale goes in either direction, now. Absolutely bizarre.