Board 8 > I always knew the sun was a small star, but not this small

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Jesus Christ.

Btw the biggest one is 1.7 billion miles in diameter (3.063 billion km)
The sun is 1.392 million kilometers in diameter.

So yeah, doesn't feel so big now.

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Yeah I've known that for a while. This is the kind of thing that made me realize how insignificant I am, and really the human race as a whole.

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I wonder who measures these things and how accurate they really are

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That's fantastic. It's also joining the ranks of my hundreds of rotating desktops!

Ah, Wolf 359. There be Borg there.

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It's not so much that it's a small star, it's rather normal. But the biggest ones are quite big.

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Leebo86 posted...
It's not so much that it's a small star, it's rather normal. But the biggest ones are quite big.

Also this.

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Jeff Zero posted...
That's fantastic. It's also joining the ranks of my hundreds of rotating desktops!

Ah, Wolf 359. There be Borg there.

Look out!

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I love these massive scale comparison thingies.

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yeah, the scale of things is pretty huge. however, the void between stars is enough to make even the largest star feel like a dust spec....

when you realize the astronomical scale of the universe, the concept of things like aliens visiting becomes almost a joke, though the concept of aliens existing approaches yes.

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BIGPUN9999 posted...


ROFL!
I was waiting for that part at the end.

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...That's a big robot.

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BIGPUN9999 posted...


And STTGL is about twenty times as big as that.

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lol

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From: Leebo86 | #005
It's not so much that it's a small star, it's rather normal. But the biggest ones are quite big.

^^^

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Didn't they just recently discover a star larger than VY Canis Majoris?

From: BIGPUN9999 | #008

Ha, I wasn't expecting TTGL to show up at the end of that, awesome.

From: SovietOmega | #010
when you realize the astronomical scale of the universe, the concept of things like aliens visiting becomes almost a joke, though the concept of aliens existing approaches yes.

Approaches? It's just yes. There's no way we're the only intelligent species in the whole freakin' universe. When you realize just how big it is.

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BIGPUN9999 posted...


Always love the ending to that.

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ShadowHalo17 posted...
From: BIGPUN9999 | #008

Ha, I wasn't expecting TTGL to show up at the end of that, awesome.

From: SovietOmega | #010
when you realize the astronomical scale of the universe, the concept of things like aliens visiting becomes almost a joke, though the concept of aliens existing approaches yes.
Approaches? It's just yes. There's no way we're the only intelligent species in the whole freakin' universe. When you realize just how big it is.

lacking a detailed examination of every particle in the universe, a claim that there is without doubt other lifeforms in the universe can only be labeled as wishful thinking.

what i WAS saying though, was that the likelyhood of such an event approaches near certainty. a 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999% chance might as well be 100%. it is just a simple application of the mathematical concept of limits.

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Idk if this is the right one because no flash on phone

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

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From: BIGPUN9999 | #008

yay I made that ending... I think

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I looked at it, turbo.
That was pretty cool. It always amazes me how things compare in size. I love it when they get ridiculously big or small.

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That was pretty cool. It always amazes me how things compare in size. I love it when they get ridiculously big or small.

old but this is pretty awesome if you haven't seen it

http://www.primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

Liquid Wind posted...
That was pretty cool. It always amazes me how things compare in size. I love it when they get ridiculously big or small.

old but this is pretty awesome if you haven't seen it

http://www.primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

Yup. That's actually what turbo posted. Fav'd.

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Why is significance measured by physical size?

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Yup. That's actually what turbo posted. Fav'd.

ah, I should've actually looked lol

Why is significance measured by physical size?

it's a useful ego check because people are arrogant and tend to think the universe is entirely about us, the reality is that this entire planet could disappear tomorrow and on the larger scale of things, nothing will have changed.

along the same lines but even more powerful is taking a good look at the history of life on this planet. the apocalypse is a big topic now because of 2012 coming up, people tend to refer to it as "the end of the world" when again, the reality is that a planetary scale disaster could wipe us out and life will continue just fine. there have been mass extinctions in the past, and there will be more in the future

WVl posted...
Why is significance measured by physical size?

Compensation

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Yeah well, I also just think it's cool.

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VY Canis Majoris is still smaller than Ridley.

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MarvelousGerbil posted...
VY Canis Majoris is still smaller than Ridley.

And X-Box.

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Ace_Killjoy posted...
MarvelousGerbil posted...
VY Canis Majoris is still smaller than Ridley.

And X-Box.

And the jp

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The Sun is to VY Canis Majoris as VY Canis Majoris is to New Pork City

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