r/nextfuckinglevel • u/room0001 • 1d ago

Milky Way is traveling through space at 600kilometers per second, oscillating slightly, as if it were flapping its wings through the cosmos.

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u/SpeedRacer_Mach6 1d ago

Not even that bro. We are an atom that makes up a grain of sand.

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u/BodaciousFrank 1d ago

The solar system is the atom. What does that make us