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Anyway, what about the view.
Since I have long since exhausted by skills in cosmology, I am left, as a layperson, to reflect on the possibility that out there in the intergalactic ether, orbiting around a little G2 class star with a little air and a little water, is a bug making it's way through a heavily irradiated and therefore short existence. In keeping with the tenor of this discussion, we will call him/her Bug 1 (B1 for short).
B1 lives under a rock on the surface of this watery/rocky planet out there in the middle of the spaces between the Virgo Supercluster of Galaxies. When he steps out of the shade of his rock for a whiz and a look 'round the neighbourhood, he has a close-up and personal look at the sky and just before B2, a larger and hungrier bug reduces him to gnat droppings, his last sight is of M84 and M86 each larger than our moon. Whoa. What a ride.
Peter
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