we are so small
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- Nairn0
One of my favourite means of visualising the enormity of Things is to imagine that our sun was replaced by the star Betelgeuse.
If it were so, and you were to look up into the sky one day, the entire sky, from horizon to horizon would be filled entirely by the new Sun.
- and Betelgeuse isn't even one of the largest stars, according to your gif thing.Nairn
- Actually, shit - sorry - I meant 'Antares'. Not Betelgeuse. Nearly though.Nairn
- it would cover the entire inner planets. so you won't be able to look at all... being dead and all..plash
- Probably, yes :) Though it'd still be of the same mass, and presumably, of a lower energy radiation?Nairn
- er.. I mean, if our sun swelled up to that size, which it will at some far off point.Nairn
- Nairn0
There was an image in NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day last week that shows something beautiful.
We think of Space as an empty void, which from our perspective it mostly is. But if you scale up into the ubermacro, it becomes clear that we live in a vast morass of gloop - like we're found in the swirls of a coffee cup or curling whorls of smoke from a cigarette. It's all round us.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod…
- Corvo20
I do not wish to sound corny or anything, but - being so small - isn't it wonderful what humans have already invented: gods, poems, music, mathematics, machines, computers, telescopes that can take pictures of the universe... you name it. Is that all pish? We're small and sure enough a single comet the size of a lorry can wipe us all out, but we - in ourselves, at our scale - we are not that small.
I guess.
- uberdesigner0
I'm psyched for the interstellar hunt for God
- Daithi0
not space related, but
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- sureshot0
bumb!
- Anders0
Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen
(EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065…
- hellogoodbye0
jeeeeesuuus!!
at some point I lost all points of reference and they all became multicolored circles to me.
- utopian0
VY Canis Majoris
It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 Quadrillion) earths to fill VY Canis Majoris. The diameter of VY Canis majoris is Est. 3,063,500,000 km.
- boobs0
Yeah, the universe is enormous. But what are you going to do about it?
- Not_Just_Another0
- Great book. You should check out "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi, you'd dig.TheBlueOne
- WeLoveNoise0
with all those trillions of stars/galaxies - assuming there is intelligent life out there, i'm suprised they havent broken the lightspeed barrier before us.
its arguments like this that make me wonder whether the skeptics r true
- Mal0
Small but big as the universe at the same time.
Eames: Powers of 10
- GeorgesII0
^
maybe they are here, maybe they've been here even before us, we don't know and we never will be sure, but like many people out there I've had my share of interesting event happen to me and it opened my eyes on what is seen and what is occulted,
I know how skepticism works, even if there are scientific proofs, you'll find deniers, its inside the human nature.
I don't remember who said it, but it somewhat like this"in the past people were overly superstitious, but now he'is overly skeptical,
none of these views are correct because we can not separate science from spiriuality and spirituality from science,
when men will learn to conjugate them he will be granted the secret to eternal life"
- moth0
Even if intelligent life had broken the lightspeed barrier, it wouldn't matter - lightspeed is still pretty damn slow when you're trying to traverse the Universe.
Further to that, intelligent, Universe traversing life could have had it's day already. Starwars could've been and gone. We could be the proverbial cockroaches who inherited the Universe after every other form of life destroyed itself.
- CygnusZero40
Yeah, there may be something out there beyond the universe that makes everything within it seem so small. Maybe all the planets and stars are just cells of a much larger organism.
- The Marvel Multiverse?TheBlueOne
- It's fascinating to think about, and endlessly irritating that none of us will ever know the truth.CygnusZero4