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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+71In other words... don't ever feel like you're important.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+80This planet scale thingy is worthless, they left out USA.
- FuriousGopher, on 10/12/2007, -6/+70Say, how come they left out Uranus in our solar system?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+60"That's a huge bitch!"
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+57I attached VV Cephi to my keyring. Finally I never lose them.
- Tolzmaniac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58I thought this was going to end with "My Penis".
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+52earth, the center of the universe, rofl.
There's probably a vast intergalactic alliance of beings across the universe, but none of them bothered to tell us about it. We're the universal equivalent of bacteria.
-"What's on that crappy little blue planet over there?"
-"Nothing really, some meaty things" - Himself, on 10/12/2007, -11/+62its all about size
- SamKellett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+50To really put things into perspective:
Distance between Earth and the Sun: 149,000,000km (ala Wikipedia)
Diameter of VV Cephi: 3,676,200,000km
Which means that you could only fit 1/25th of VV Cephi in the space between Earth and the Sun. - tman700, on 10/12/2007, -4/+47All I could think about that whole time was how small we truly are. Theres got to be more than us out there. To think otherwise would be pretty ignorant.
- Cerpin_Taxt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42Jo9100 was referring to matter, not light
- AlmostEvil, on 10/12/2007, -6/+48"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
R.I.P. Douglas Adams. - Dested, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42it probably fell down the sink.
- rabidg00se, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Yo momma's so fat, she came home in the dark one night and your dad said "VV Cephai, is that you?"
- bradford, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36What do you expect? Parts fall off my Saturn all the time. It IS a GM product after all. =/
- TekeeTakShak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Anyone want to wager a guess as to what'll happen when W Cephei goes boom?
- Gerz1219, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33Yeah, and a few trillion other stars.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30thats pretty cool, wish they could have showed us something like this in 5th grade science...
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Black hole, probably. And it's VV Cephi not W.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I'm a carbon based unit, thank you very much.
- Bonekhan, on 10/12/2007, -19/+47"emm when itll boom i guess it wont go faster than light... if the star is at 3000 lightyears away, then the explosion will take millions of years to reach us. so if it hadnt exploded yet, were safe"
Actually, if it traveled at light speed and was 3000 lightyears away, it would take 3000 years to reach us. - insub2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26importance is relative. to the universe, each of us are nothing. but ourselves, we're like friggon gods, dude. ...unless you have low self esteem.
anyway, the point is that to us mere humans, what matters most in life is other stupid humans. - monyetz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Saturn lost its ring here
- mathchemist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23This certainly is interesting. I knew that there were stars far larger than our sun but I didnt know they become that large. Did you see the size of Betelgeuse? It makes our sun look like a tiny particle.
- FKnight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21They didn't have any pictures of quarks, photons, and electrons to get a close enough scale.
- TheZorch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I agree, to say we are alone in the universe is not only the ultimate expression of arragance but its also extremely dangerous to our future existance. Its people who refuse to believe in life beyond our solar system who are the ones most likely to do something stupid which causes a war, or commit mass suicide because they can't stand being proven wrong.
- Arkz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19He didnt say it was a Planet he asked where it was.... you twits ;)
- Easty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Over there.
*points* - Dolphinese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Virtually the same thing, but as a static (and big) image:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Planet-star-sizes-01.jpg - cpmcd2000, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25It is links to effing AMAZING stuff like this that makes me love digg so much!
Thank you very much himself & all who dugg this up to the front. - ord0x, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Better check ebay for that ring
- PueSi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19If we were the only living creatures in the universe, what will happen when we're gone?
Are we going to "be gone"? It makes me feel funny inside when i think of all we've done (we humans), imagine all of it disappearing and no one will ever know were here.
The Universe scares me, that's the reason i want believe there must be a god or something of that nature (I'm not affiliated to any religion though), i don't want to die and stop existing. When i think about that, it makes me feel deeply sad for all the people that get killed everyday, for all the wars, all the racism, even all the animals we kill (for food or the little ant you stepped on).
But sometimes i feel like if all of this were fake, maybe people don't die, maybe there's no such thing as dying and the thing i perceive as reality does not exist, if that's true then what am i? All i know is that i hope that's true, i rather live in a fake world were no one dies than in a real world were people get killed for oil, for racism, for a ***** bunch of numbers on a bank account. - LtJimDangle2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18This page puts all this into an even better perspective, IMO.
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm - janus121, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Well, let's hope there are more beings out there.. would be a bit depressing if we were it.
- SirOracle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Our sun can beat VV Cephei's ass anytime ;)
- spd998, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14This has been shown on digg before but I don't care its an awesome video it's crazy how big some of those stars are.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15You didn't see this last year?
- freff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15@SamKellett: Oh yeah, and that little voice in your head that is saying "He must've calculated that incorrectly" is exactly why some people believe in God.
Actually, it would be more like, "I heard what he just said, but those numbers mean absolutely nothing to me. I wonder what's on tv?" - Namelessthinker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I posted a ytmnd on digg that had the xbox biggy controller pretty close to the end of it.
- MuTeD, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14edit: nvm
digg down. - monyetz, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18Pluto is not a planet anymore dude. Its a dwarf planet.
- gl00pp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The universe is so vast it is not comprehensible by the human mind. It would be like an ant trying to understand the wonder of the internet. It can't be done.
The universe humbles us as it should. - Adamande, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@FuriousGopher
"Say, how come they left out Uranus in our solar system?"
Probably because Uranus and Neptune are about the same size. This is just a scale, not a complete overview of the planets in our solar system, so I guess they didn't feel the need to include two planets the same size. - rense, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Cue 'yo momma' jokes...
- ChadN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@wolkengrau
Volume goes as the radius CUBED, not squared... - elck03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I feel small.
- wolkengrau, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Oops, you're right.
Next time I should take a look into the formulary before posting. >_> - oSiBo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@moonsfang
Nice futurama quote ! ;) - ChadN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They are comparing diameters (the measurements in km at the upper right of each object), not mass, or volume.
3676200000 / 12756 = 288194 (approx.)
Comparing mass or volume would have led to much more impressive numbers. For example VV Cephei A is estimated to be up to 33,295,000 times that of earth. And the volume is 23,936,125,900,000,000 times that of earth's (calculation based on given diameters). - twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The pixel resolution doesn't allow reproducing items that insignificant, even with massive magnification.
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