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- mongoloidplease, on 01/09/2008, -5/+113earth is round? wtf
- leftler, on 01/09/2008, -3/+61I was shocked by the size of the bigger stars compared to the sun.
- VarianX, on 01/09/2008, -4/+56Too tired to make a butthole joke, but I seriously didn't see Uranus...
- deltron, on 01/09/2008, -2/+44*gazes out window.. frowns :(*
- inactive, on 01/09/2008, -1/+41I wonder what would it be like to have a blue sun, like Rigel.
- chingy1788, on 01/09/2008, -5/+38damn we are tiny...
- soupeh, on 01/09/2008, -1/+33Now, for some real perspective... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqsN2MniF4
- Treshnell, on 01/09/2008, -1/+28Ah yes, the Total Perspective Vortex.
- u8eR, on 01/09/2008, -0/+25Here's a picture of our Sun compared to the second largest star known to man, the last star shown in the video. It is virtually impossible to comprehend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sun_and_VV_Ceph ... - ohsin, on 01/09/2008, -1/+23That didn't help my inferiority complex.
- inactive, on 01/09/2008, -1/+23Just re-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, revolving at 900 miles an hour. It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a Sun, that is the source of all our power. The Sun, and you and me, and all the stars that you can see, are moving at a million miles a day In the outer-spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of the Galaxy we call "The Milky Way". Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred-billion stars, it's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick, but out by us, it's just 3,000 light years wide. We're 30,000 light years from Galactic Central Point, we go round every 200 million years, And our Galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe! The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding in all of the directions it can whizz, As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know, 12 million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is, So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
- jmpeagle, on 01/09/2008, -1/+22they should have then scaled down to a quark to so we could have been blown away by how big we are
- spikey1000, on 01/09/2008, -8/+29I've seen this before, but it is still mind blowing how big the planets get
- inactive, on 01/09/2008, -5/+24I am gona start worshiping the sun now. It is more of a God than Christan God can ever be.
- cerealjynx, on 01/09/2008, -3/+21My penis is very small.
- inactive, on 01/09/2008, -0/+17Like Gary Coleman.
- chingy1788, on 01/09/2008, -2/+19stars*
- warrenterr, on 01/09/2008, -2/+17This ***** is humbling
- Treshnell, on 01/09/2008, -1/+14And they only showed the second largest discovered star. If VY Canis Majoris replaced our sun, its radius would reach Saturn. VV Cephei, by comparison, only extends a bit past Jupiter!
- poppacherry, on 01/09/2008, -0/+13jesus, just when i thought they'd just showed a huge ass star, another one is right next to it, trumping the previous in size. simply mind-boggling. if you ever get a chance, check out the history channel's "the universe: season 1" on DVD. you have to pause every few seconds just to comprehend the data they give you. its ***** insane!
- Mephux, on 01/09/2008, -3/+15Would telling you there is no god help?
- x2wenty4x, on 01/09/2008, -1/+12VV Cephei, now thats a star
- heartcoldfusion, on 01/09/2008, -1/+11Which is why in 2620 they're going to rename Uranus to Urectum.
- SolidSnake24, on 03/28/2008, -0/+10Take a look at this interactive Universcale, which shows the largest and smallest entities....
http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discover ... - Scynet, on 01/09/2008, -0/+10Well here's another one with a new comparison in the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gefOgPoH7yE - ProgressBar, on 01/09/2008, -1/+9Blue, da ba dee da ba die
- Jobe479, on 01/09/2008, -1/+9Here's a non video link to the same thing. http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm
- chingy1788, on 01/09/2008, -2/+9often, we need to be reminded that fighting over consoles and operating systems is a tiny matter that has no little to no effect on the rest of the universe
- blankoboy, on 01/09/2008, -2/+9The Blue man group would be out of a job I think.
- da_bradler, on 01/09/2008, -0/+7the earth actually isn't perfectly round, it is slightly flat at the poles and slightly fat at the equator. kinda like if you sat on a pilates ball.
- wipis, on 01/09/2008, -2/+8Is Uranus in there? Or did I miss it. I watched it 3 times. Great video, if not totally dumb for missing a planet. Shouldn't it be right between Neptune and Saturn? And what about Pluto? No longer a planet so ok, I guess.
- chkdg8, on 01/09/2008, -5/+11And christians say we're the only ones. Yeah right.
- cjmart, on 01/09/2008, -1/+7288,194 X Earth, that's amazing.
- Maegashira, on 01/09/2008, -1/+7seems you missed it: pluto is not a planet anymore. and uranus is left out because of old jokes
- Turnar, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6I dunno...I'm Christian and believe in alien life. Even popular Christian writers like C.S. Lewis wrote about the possibility of life on other planets. I think mainstream Christian doctrine just leaves that question up to speculation.
- TimmyA, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6Hot, for one.
- JARSInc, on 01/09/2008, -1/+7Not as effective as the Total Perspective Vortex, but still very striking.
- inactive, on 01/09/2008, -1/+7That makes me think of the short film Powers of Ten ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten ), depicting a scale from a meter to the size of the visible universe, and then again down to the size of a proton, by zooming out and zooming in on a logarithmic scale. A copy on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnqXcK4YPM0
- ZoomBoy, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6This makes us sitting here talking about Ron Paul, Xbox Live and the RIAA seem pretty insignificant.
- jmpeagle, on 01/09/2008, -1/+7or uranus
- ElwoodHerring, on 01/09/2008, -1/+7Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, and the largest planet shown in that video. Everything after Jupiter is a star. Planets can not be bigger than stars; any object above a certain size (about a dozen Jupiter masses) would undergo nuclear fusion at its core due to the intense gravitational pull, and would therefore become a star.
- mesasone, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5Blue by Eiffel 65.
I wish I didn't know that off hand. - Frostman3D, on 01/09/2008, -1/+6It's a small world after all.
- Sterango, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4I'm sure many things would be different colors, i know plants used to be mainly purple instead of green wayyyyyy back int he day for some reason i forget..
- SubaruPowah, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4I believe 'Scientists renamed Uranus years ago to rid the earth of that stupid joke once and for all. Now it's called Urectum!'
Would be the correct quote. - beyondinfinity, on 01/09/2008, -1/+5As big as the universe is and as big as your think it is...it's bigger.
- chingy1788, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4wow, our solar system is massive, didn't think jupiter was out that far (note that as humans we cant justify large numbers, whats 1 trillion grains of rice to you?)
- Icyfenix, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4I was scared that was a rick roll but its not- its a YTMND about distance and galaxies.
- AbsurdParadox, on 01/09/2008, -1/+5I'm betting that someone intentionally left out Uranus just to get people to ask where it was.
- ElwoodHerring, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
"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."
Carl Sagan -
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