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Title: Universe > You
Post by: Szgk on April 26, 2009, 07:40:55 AM
If you ever start feeling that you're significant...

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg
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Post by: Kotenku on April 26, 2009, 08:04:54 AM
...fuck
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Post by: Ommadawn on April 26, 2009, 08:23:02 AM
Wow....
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Post by: Szgk on April 26, 2009, 08:46:35 AM
I think there is an error in the picture where Rigel is the largest star shown (it doesn't look like it's the largest, but Aldebaran is in reality smaller by 18 solar radii). It's diameter is 62 solar radii, while the orbit of Neptune, thus the size of our solar system is around 6450 solar radii. It means that no known star is in fact larger than the system of Sol -> VY Canis Majoris is 1800-2100 times the size of the Sun.

Correct me if my reasoning is wrong.
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Post by: TheMoonlightBecomesYou on April 26, 2009, 08:55:07 AM
Wow.
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Post by: Listen in Silence on April 26, 2009, 10:05:53 AM
So, there. Of course there's no chance there could ever be life out there!
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Post by: Luke Danger on April 26, 2009, 10:58:51 AM
You never know, I don't beleive that humans are the only ones who evolved. I'm not sayin that there are little green guys running around, but honestly, given how big the universe is, we flat out -can't be the only sentiant life out there-.
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Post by: derfo on April 26, 2009, 11:28:44 AM
itt people are bad at looking at everything
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Post by: Lansert on April 27, 2009, 04:00:55 AM
Fools!  Now you can weep at the insignificance of your puny empires!  The whole of creation laughs at you!  And by the time you know it's laughing at you your sun will have turned into ash and background radiation!  Weep I say!
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Post by: Lux Lucis on April 27, 2009, 04:29:00 AM
Who knows? Maybe humanity will be able to transverse the stars by then!

...and that's a big maybe.
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Post by: Sandstorm on April 27, 2009, 04:46:12 AM
There used to be a video of this somewhere. Can someone find it?
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Post by: Caddies on April 27, 2009, 05:14:47 AM
Really amazing. I wonder what some people prescribing to various religious ideologies think about this kind of thing!
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Post by: ScottyB on April 27, 2009, 05:15:57 AM
All I can think about is how even forever isn't enough time to see our universe.
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Post by: Arthurian_Spark on April 27, 2009, 06:41:15 AM
My stoner buddies and I have found a new messiah.
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Post by: DangerousDan on April 27, 2009, 12:11:49 PM
Quote from: Caddies;122296Really amazing. I wonder what some people prescribing to various religious ideologies think about this kind of thing!

This.
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Post by: Ebok on April 27, 2009, 12:24:53 PM
This is just... so cool.
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Post by: djspectre on April 27, 2009, 03:32:53 PM
"In the beginning, the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people mad and been widely regarded as a bad idea."
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Post by: Szgk on April 27, 2009, 03:36:16 PM
Much <3 for Douglas Adams.
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Post by: Letsplayforfun on April 27, 2009, 03:41:42 PM
Geez, sad we can't spy on E.T.'s wife under the shower, too.
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Post by: scribjellydonut on April 30, 2009, 02:51:55 PM
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200918/3558/NASA-s-Swift-telescope-locates-extraordinary-star-burst
 
Basically, the most distant object every seen by humans was spotted yesterday.  Kind of a big deal in the astronomy world.
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Post by: SkillFocuspwn on May 03, 2009, 09:49:41 AM
Blatantly just wallpaper around earth, tbh
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