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Why don't you see that it's meaningful now? We didn't know about the galaxies only some 100 years ago. Now we know a lot even about how the universe started, read as an example, we will never see most of the first 500 million years, except on some places where the reionization process ended sooner:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/why-hubble-will-never-...

But we already see in the past all the billions of years: the further the object from us, the older is what we see.

And we see the glow of the Big Bang. In the distant future, much less will be observable.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/throw-forward-thursday...

"Instead of clusters and superclusters of galaxies, there will be… nothing. Dark energy will take care of that, driving all the other galaxies in the Universe, everything that isn’t bound to our local group, our beyond our visible horizon. Even the closest galaxies to us beyond the local group, like the Virgo Cluster, the Leo triplet, and even the extremely nearby M81 group will have redded out, and will leave no measurable signature behind."

"Even the leftover glow from the Big Bang would be undetectable! What appears now as a 2.725 Kelvin afterglow, with a relatively dense 411 photons-per-cubic centimeter, will look nothing like that 100 billion years from now."




Unfortunately the distance to even the nearest stars, makes travel to them unrealistic in any of our lifetimes. Sure we're getting new observational knowledge, but it's still depressing to think about the scale of the universe.


It would be a lot more depressing if we had already found all there was to find and knew there wasn't anything more...


There are known limits, "the Limits Of How Far Humanity Can Go In The Universe" no matter which technologies it possesses:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-limits-of-how-far-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL4yYHdDSWs

"Appreciate the view we have today; it’s the greatest one any living creature will ever have of our Universe, exactly as it is."


Considering the Universe is debatably infinite. I don't think we have to worry about that scenario.


This isn't new, either. In the early Iron Age we knew a lot about how the universe started, "B'reshit bara elohim..."




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