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- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+113Digg for the Death Star.
- sparkmonkeyz, on 10/12/2007, -8/+77Pluto is on there still,
RIP Pluto, you were and still are my favorite planet, even if no one else thinks so.
February 18, 1930 - August 25, 2006 - DrakeGTA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
- Saintlink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+52Pluto Fanboi. ;-)
- Crimsonsoul343, on 10/12/2007, -3/+54http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/13db9ddd.jpg
http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/13db957.jpg
http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/13db967.jpg
http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/13db976.jpg
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Here are some of the pictures of the video for those who want a better resolution view. - Odweaver, on 10/12/2007, -4/+54The xbox is noticbly missing from this, marked as innacurrate. :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44typo in the headline... wow...
- Rhine23, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43You know what I didn't even notice it till you pointed it out. I read it the way the poster meant it >.> way to run my dyslexic moment...
- FluxHarmonic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+42*looks at the Red Supergiant*
*looks at his own penis*
Damn. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35"Space is big - really big - you just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
- davehendrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Actually, they say the universe is finite, but boundless....
http://www.lfrieling.com/univers.html
...and the video just went up to the red giant, so the title is misleading. - MrBungl3, on 10/12/2007, -11/+42"Our universe is ***** damn big" Well duh, it's infinite;)
Cool video though.. - ElectroBot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Here's a better "our universe if big/infinite" animation courtesy of the Simpsons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNV9FEKi9FQ - Saintlink, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32To think, we've only set foot on our own moon yet. Mindblowing when you stop and ponder it. Neat video, digg.
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -6/+35Tattoine is as small as mercury? Damn, I didn't know that.
With that in mind, that means that the people on tattoine couldnt possibly survive on earth. Their bones and muscles would be too weak to sustain their own weight for more than a few hours. That's almost sad :(
Then again, Earth was never mentioned in any of the Star Wars films. Meh. Digg for Tattoine :) - mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30The Red SuperGiant is one big ass star. Space is so ***** awesome.
- RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27It'd be better if the resolution wasn't *****, that way you could better see the size comparisons.
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28Yes, everyone should realize that this is digg -- the place where you can read wonderfully articulate statements such as "The size our of universe is ***** damn big."
- SPLASTiK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm
Single page with all the pics... No Death Star though :D - PAJK, on 10/12/2007, -6/+28Woah dude, what a square. ;)
- kyledavis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22@gcnaddict
Not true. Size is not directly proprotional to gravity. It depends more on the density. Maybe Tattooine is mostly made of lead. :-) - gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21It died on my birthday :'(
Oh wait... - knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25titlesaysitall, way to copy comments from youtube to try to be funny.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I feel so...small.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18What!? SUN is evolving! [tense music] Congratulations, SUN has evolved into RED SUPERGIANT!
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Footnote:
The models in this video are not to scale. :-) - abbott75, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20You realise this is digg, don't you?
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Red Supergiants....just the thought of something that massive is mind-blowing.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15(Comment buried for not being grammatically advanced enough for burkay)
- t.toe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19I dugg this story just so there was the possibility of Kevin or Alex saying the phrase, "Our Universe is ***** damn big."
- Floydian23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12They aren't there because they aren't real. A red supergiant, is a red supergiant. Betelguese and Antares and Arcturus are all red supergiants. There aren't any categories of stars larger than those. They are very large, and there may be larger stars than Antares, but realize that Antares is an extremely large red supergiant. The rest of this video was false, because the class red supergiant is overblown in the video (seeming larger than stars that best describe the type shown before in the video). Antares is still freaking unbelievably huge, but there's not much else out there that is any larger.
- zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Cool...but anyone got that in a powerpoint type presentation....so it can be run slower..?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10For whatever reason, this reminds me of the final scene of Men in Black 2.
- nights0223, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10An AU is the average distance from the earth to the sun, not the distance of the earth's orbit.
- HAKdragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_supergiant
- celotil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I've always wondered if that was possible.
Say, for example, you have the equivalent quantity of Earth's water and you take it into space along our orbital path (for the fact that water is water and not ice at this distance), maybe adding a bit more water for stability, and release it so it's moving around the Sun at the same speed as Earth (so we don't have a collision).
Would the fact that it's a huge ball of nothing but H2O mean that it was semi-clear? Would it keep together because of its own mass? What if it were on it's own and further out but was much, much more water? Would it's H2O core start to react and turn into a "combusting" core, lighting up the whole ball?
If only I had a galaxy of my own to play with. :) - celeronxl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Unfortunately the last two pictures are missing, which were most interesting to me as I hadn't seen them the last time this was dugg.
- Presentlight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Agreed. The universe is finite but its boundaries cannot be breached. Logically, anything that begins from a single point and then expands must have a limit.
- metalstorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Zadadka: When this was on digg a while back it was just a website with pictures so you might want to try a search to find your pictures to look at.
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Actually, repeated modifiers are fairly common in most languages, and are not at all an indication of linguistic weakness. Ever eat mahi mahi, for instance? The Hawaiian language makes significant use of repeated modifiers for added emphasis. This is simply a feature of the language and not an indication of any inferiority.
I would argue that the use of "***** damn" shows an even greater inability to come up with an appropriate modifier. Those are two words that people insert into "damn" near any sentence as all-purpose modifiers, instead of actually having to exert their brains in order to come up with a word that has contextual meaning. What a concept!
I would also argue that "***** damn" is even a repeated modifier in its own way -- and one that is even quite a bit inferior to "really, really," first because the words "*****" and "damn" don't actually mean anything in this context other than "really" and "really" anyway, in this context. And second because they are unnecessary vulgarities.
And THIRD because you would think that by now, with the continued coarsening of society and the seemingly rampant and common usage of vulgar terms in normal speech, those words would have almost completely lost their "oomph" by now anyway as emphatic terms.
Guess I'm "***** damn" wrong about that, though. - AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"There are less offensive adjectives that even a public school graduate should be able to master. How about 'really, really big'?"
Wow, ran out of ideas after the very first modifier, so you had to repeat it? How about "hugely gargantuan"? Or maybe "unbelievably, colossally gigantic"? Me, I'll stick with "***** damn big", since profanities provide better emphasis. - n0xie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The internet is for porn.
- robystar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Antares is to Pluto as...
One of Oprah's butt cheeks is to all of Nicole Richie...no other way for me to comprehend something on this scale:( - celeronxl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8This has a lot to do with the size of our universe. Just think, there're probably millions of these super-massive objects contained within it, while most people probably can't even comprehend the universe being bigger than a single Antares, let alone the supergiants.
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Who said I was mad? I'm just making a point; I didn't really expect any of the potty-mouths to get it or even care (although one can always hope). No, I fully expected to be dugg down and called a jackass for that post, because after all, saying "*****" and "damn" is cool, and pointing out that it's completely unnecessary is apparently being a jackass. Gee, I love modern standards.
- celeronxl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9TrevorBradley: I don't know if that's right.. Antares itself would encompass the orbit of Jupiter, and the supergiants were considerably larger than Antares.
- chromo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6seeing the difference between a blue and a red super giant is just insane! just think if there was a planet the size of the red super giants that we could live on, god damn.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That was a pretty cool episode if I remember right.
By Voyager standards, anyways. - noumenon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I feel like I just stepped out of the Total Perspective Vortex.
- Xinareiaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/bigbrigh.jpg
I thought that was the biggest star..... -
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