trying hard to understand the scale

trying hard to understand the scale

fiction
edward w pritchard

Waking at 11 pm gazing to the SE sky familiar Jupiter has risen and I observe it as  steady companion to my eye across a few thousand generations. Before that we might have looked up at that crystal brightness of light briefly once as a lemur or other small mammal in the recent distant past.

With today's shared accumulated scientific knowledge I accept Jupiter is relatively close to us compared to distant objects in space perhaps a trillion times as far from earth as Jupiter. Or although I am trying hard to understand the scale of measure it could be wrong.

Man's bold assertion of our attempt of a conquest of Space. Like a lemur or other small mammal upward we gaze.