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- AsSubtleAsABrik, on 09/28/2008, -12/+450Every time this is submitted it makes me feel more insignificant.
- timlopez, on 09/29/2008, -5/+195Uranus is still small
- fugeelama, on 09/29/2008, -3/+159Slightly higher res: http://i35.tinypic.com/mwuzwh.jpg
- G4M3R, on 09/29/2008, -1/+99Y SO SIRIUS?
- dzneill, on 09/28/2008, -5/+102More proof that everyone around me thinks they're more important than they really are.
- tumples, on 09/29/2008, -17/+112Pictures like these reinforce my view that if the universe is truly so large and we are so small, the probability of us actually being made by 'chance' and not design gets higher and higher.
- yacks, on 09/29/2008, -2/+94Uranus? Didn't you hear we changed the name of that to prevent such jokes? It's now called.. Urectum
- angryfirelord, on 09/29/2008, -3/+55Get to the point (no pun intended): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7 ...
- Stevo15025, on 09/29/2008, -3/+52Thats what she said
wait...***** - xieodeluxed, on 09/29/2008, -2/+48Heres a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXOIdu8bHuo - alimighty1, on 09/29/2008, -2/+44Yakko's Universe Song is still better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk - inactive, on 09/29/2008, -4/+45no, they make our sandwiches, a very important position.
- jessejardim, on 09/29/2008, -2/+40Every time I see this I say, "Wow, Earth is really small and those stars are really big." But, that doesn't even describe it. None of our minds can comprehend how big those things are. I wish I had the mental capacity to percieve it. It's totally mind-blowing.
- notzak, on 09/29/2008, -0/+38"Makes you feel sort of... insignificant doesn't it?"
"...Yes... So... can we have your liver?" - Yookji, on 09/29/2008, -0/+37VV Cephei compared to Jupiter's orbit:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Size ... - randomstupid, on 09/29/2008, -4/+38Its all relatively relative
- monkeyshines, on 09/29/2008, -1/+35Every time I see these comparisons it makes me feel more awesome. It always conjures up images of what it'd be like to have to colonize a planet that big.
I think about how sweet it would be to live on a planet where it'd take days, or perhaps months to travel to the other side....a place where all of human existence as we currently know it, could fit on the proportional equivalent of Rhode Island.
Plus I also think about blasting giant space bears with a laser gun. That would rule.
I'm totally going to be wearing a space bandanna. - inactive, on 09/29/2008, -1/+34*he
- andoru, on 09/29/2008, -1/+30I learned something here - if you place a star above a flat surface, it will cast a nice crisp dark shadow.
- WoWii, on 09/29/2008, -1/+29The Earth wasn't made for humans, humans were made for the Earth.
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -1/+27No you don't. There's Borg there.
- omjeremy, on 09/29/2008, -0/+25Those supergiant stars really fascinate me. Thinking about the stars and the galaxy inspires such an amazing feeling. The expansiveness of the universe... even using the word universe to describe all that is out there makes it seems smaller than it really is! Yes, I realize I'm not twelve anymore, but it's nice to have moments like this to reflect.
Example: VY Canis Majoris in comparison to the sun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sun_and_VY_Cani ... - BrownManUPS, on 09/29/2008, -0/+23I feel like I see this every week.
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -1/+23I can't believe my original comment is being dugg up. you people are terrible.
- Disease, on 09/29/2008, -1/+22You must be rolling in women.
- hauntedchippy, on 09/29/2008, -0/+20Wolf 369 is a star. You don't want to live on it.
- outcast23, on 09/29/2008, -1/+21It makes me sad that mankind would rather spend trillions fighting pointless wars instead of trying to reach for the stars :(
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -2/+22Carl Sagan said it best in The Pale Blue Dot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M
- sanman, on 09/29/2008, -1/+20Earth just got way smaller today, as SpaceX's Falcon1 just made its first successful flight!!
Woohoo!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26932813/ - headzoo, on 09/29/2008, -4/+23"amazing planetary design"
Really? 70% of the earth is water, and last time I checked people don't live in water, we live on land. 20% of the land on this planet is uninhabitable. It's either too dry, or too cold. That leaves a very small percentage of the entire planet that is actually suitable for human life. The parts of this planet we can live on are damn near uninhabitable half the year. It's either too cold in the winter, or too hot in the summer. It's only through human ingenuity that we have managed to survive through those parts of the year.
I'd hardly call it an "amazing" design. - inactive, on 09/29/2008, -18/+36imagine if you were a woman and were already pretty insignificant.
- Sublimin4L, on 09/29/2008, -0/+18I like this one as well:
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm - inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+17I have the capacity.
Pick up a grain of sand, and compare that to the Epcot center. - AcidVision, on 09/29/2008, -0/+16that image just blew my mind all over my monitor.
- downwithwilco, on 09/29/2008, -2/+17"We are a speck on a speck on a speck on a speck"
- Carl Sagen - CompUComp, on 09/29/2008, -0/+14Futurama episode ftw :D
- Disease, on 09/29/2008, -0/+14We just don't get cartoons like this these days.
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -1/+15Earth, not so huge ackshully
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -3/+16touché
- scoottie, on 09/29/2008, -10/+23wow welcome to 5th grade science class
- jester55, on 09/29/2008, -0/+13Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to explore it all...
- radsprack, on 09/29/2008, -0/+13The smaller the better.
Oh wait... - Disease, on 09/29/2008, -0/+13The universe is huge.
Really huge.
Time for your test:
How huge is the universe? - EBFoxbat, on 09/29/2008, -2/+15Your logic suggest to me that you have no concept of math. Particularly exponential growth.
- EBFoxbat, on 09/29/2008, -0/+13Anyone seen my car keys?
- Thumper13, on 09/29/2008, -1/+14I was going to digg this, but it's at 42...I can't mess that up.
Let someone else mess with the galaxy. - jasdf, on 09/29/2008, -1/+13Pictures like this are posted all the time, but I for one never get tired of them.
- KokomoNYC, on 09/29/2008, -0/+12Siriusly.
- radsprack, on 09/29/2008, -1/+13Of course it is design. You should tell your theory to a certain who goes by the name Slartibartfast. I hear he is quite the fan of fjords.
- hauntedchippy, on 09/29/2008, -0/+11Acid. Take it.
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