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- Diggbotness, on 04/14/2009, -3/+1072Yep, definitely no possibility for aliens out there.
- popzero, on 04/14/2009, -4/+738Obligatory Douglas Adams: "Space is 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's, but that's just peanuts to space."
- Sublex, on 04/14/2009, -4/+725Damn, the universe is impressive.
Kinda makes me sad, thinking about all these things we'll never know about. - TrouserJazz, on 04/14/2009, -151/+836Where is your god now?
- adeelarshad82, on 04/14/2009, -4/+615Earth became invisible as soon as Pollux came in, that's crazy. What's crazier is that even though i understand we are extremely small my mind can't seem to comprehend how big VY Canis Majoris is... interesting how big the universe is.
- c0mputar, on 04/14/2009, -0/+515"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
- inactive, on 04/14/2009, -22/+530i'm 6'4
- mohsenxp, on 04/14/2009, -7/+490Damn right no aliens.
Earth is special. Why do you think it's called Earth and not VR2X something like all the other planets? - whytey, on 04/14/2009, -8/+409He's on pollux
- benmandude, on 04/14/2009, -12/+402Stuff like this makes me feel so unimportant. :(
- DreadBlog, on 04/14/2009, -5/+364So, theoretically, its possible that all the ***** we're looking at out there might not be there at all, since the picture we take right now is already 13 billion years old. We might just been looking at the remnants of things that used to be there, a lot can happen in 13 billion years...
- inactive, on 04/14/2009, -4/+355Fun fact: If you would put VY Canis Majoris where our sun is sitting now, the surface of VY Canis Majoris would reach past Jupiter.
- castevens, on 04/14/2009, -3/+327You're 3 inches closer to space than I am
- jasdf, on 04/14/2009, -2/+317Even though stuff like this gets posted all the time, I never get tired of it. Dugg.
- skunkw0rks, on 04/14/2009, -6/+304Damn universe you scary!
- sinkhead, on 04/14/2009, -8/+268Your mom's pretty much a universal constant though, we'll have her for reference.
- gunderoo, on 04/14/2009, -5/+246i expected uranus to be bigger.
/4th grade humor - strikerK, on 04/14/2009, -5/+243and all of this is just a skin cell on homer simpson's head?
- Scottievm, on 04/14/2009, -17/+20142
- dinuguan, on 04/14/2009, -2/+182i've seen bigger.
- trisweb, on 04/14/2009, -1/+176"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
- Carl Sagan - failtrain, on 04/14/2009, -46/+210Not very. It just means he has so much else to do he probably couldn't give less of a ***** about earth.
Explains a lot really... - poidh, on 04/14/2009, -7/+167Nothing in the universe is "important", as it wouldn't matter if nothing was there. Humans, and I assume other intelligent life, attach importance to things which exist.
In a universal sense, there is no such thing as "important", there is no point to anything. - peligro666, on 04/14/2009, -1/+158That's what she s... ah ***** it!
- RealJimShady, on 04/14/2009, -2/+144***** terrible actually
- spepin, on 04/14/2009, -10/+152On a universal scale, we're totally insignificant.
- amauldin71, on 04/14/2009, -2/+132As Robert Frost so well put it:
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places. - fleischkopf, on 04/14/2009, -0/+129Please keep your clothes on.
- flaminglips, on 04/14/2009, -2/+129It's a little intimidating seeing as there's so much about our own world we don't understand, yet there's so much more out there.
- Earendil1, on 04/14/2009, -4/+126DON'T PANIC
- Cerialthriller, on 04/14/2009, -2/+123you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
- 10XTen, on 04/14/2009, -15/+126Thats the point of science that it can be challenged, proven wrong and can be corrected unlike some century old books that people still blindly follow without questioning.
- Invader001, on 04/14/2009, -1/+106WHOOOSH
- RichMUrrills, on 04/14/2009, -2/+106You're very tall. It's a nice day.
- jman82s, on 04/14/2009, -5/+106Uranus is pretty good sized, though.
I know, I know, I'll go sit in timeout now. - inactive, on 04/14/2009, -17/+117Then why is the Bible written as if Earth is the center of everything and the only planet with life?
- mohsenxp, on 04/14/2009, -3/+96You've kind of misunderstood things.
What we do see IS 13billion light years away. However the object we are looking at is NOW around 45billion light years away.
We're seeing a snapshot of it when it was at point x. Now it is at point x + t - Zelf24, on 04/14/2009, -90/+181Just because there are bigger galaxies in the universe doesn't mean that God still doesn't have dominion over all of it.
How's that for awe inspiring? - barthrh, on 04/14/2009, -0/+87I'm gonna jump into a polar bear exhibit.
- Gr00ver, on 04/14/2009, -0/+84After viewing that.. I think 'mostly harmless' fits Earth perfectly.
- jynweythek, on 04/14/2009, -3/+85I know somebody at work who actually believes there cannot be alien life because it isn't mentioned in the bible.
- techdever, on 04/14/2009, -4/+85whoa whoa whoa.... Lois, this isn't my batman glass!
- Rikushix, on 04/14/2009, -0/+80That was the most out-of-left-field insult in history and yet I haven't lol'ed like that in a long time.
- zchabx8, on 04/14/2009, -3/+83From another perspective -
http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/i ... - Transporter2000, on 04/14/2009, -9/+86I fail to see your point. This could be argued for the existence of God or not. I think you just want to stir up a useless debate .
- inactive, on 04/14/2009, -0/+77I admit, I was a little lazy writing this, I didn't take five seconds to check it up, I always get Jupiter and Saturn mixed up, name-wise.
From wiki (and I have no reason to believe someone has messed with a wikipedia article regarding a ***** sun god damnit, not like we're talking about the biography of adolf hitler):
"University of Minnesota professor Roberta M. Humphreys[13] estimates the radius of VY CMa at 1,800 to 2,100 solar radii.[8] To illustrate, if our Sun were replaced by VY Canis Majoris, its surface might extend to the orbit of Saturn." - noahgelman, on 04/14/2009, -1/+78I cannot comprehend there not being life out there
- XPelargos, on 04/14/2009, -0/+74That homework's not going to do itself, young man.
- mohsenxp, on 04/14/2009, -2/+72Yeah but who cares?
Reality doesn't exist and all that crap...but at the end of the day, make the most of what you got. Even if it has no meaning and no weight, you'd rather be a happy unimportant speck than a sad unimportant speck? Right.
So who cares. -
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