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- zulelord, on 12/30/2008, -7/+112That's what she said
- shakeysugarpimp, on 12/30/2008, -4/+91I've seen bigger...
- ShadowFoxxx, on 12/31/2008, -0/+66VY Canis Majoris = http://basenorte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/su ...
and
http://612students.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/200 ... - harryterry, on 12/31/2008, -0/+64Why can't our sun be blue...? :-/
- carl25, on 12/31/2008, -14/+67man, uranus is huge
- DirtyVicar, on 12/31/2008, -8/+50The universe is ***** insane... if it's not the giant, colossal distances (which I think very few people understand the significance of) it's stars like these that are trillions of times bigger than they need to be. It's like a real-life version of God hacking SimCity and moving some bytes around to make a ridiculous skyscraper that's 20 miles high. Some deity with a 52,000 light year roll of neutron duct tape was like "let's see how big we can make this son of a bitch... my kid won't believe it." Hell, that's a cool god to have, too.
- jboitnott, on 12/30/2008, -1/+43It won't be long probably before some new star comes along to kick Canis Majoris to the curb!
- compulsive1, on 12/30/2008, -6/+46VY Canis Majoris FTW!
- vickers500, on 12/31/2008, -6/+41Your mom is very hot.
- AZRoboto, on 12/31/2008, -1/+33Because then everyone would be sad and kill themselves.
- 0ceanic, on 12/31/2008, -0/+31pointless facts:
our sun is not yellow, its actually white.
if it was yellow, clouds would be yellow.
when viewing dangerously bright colors, our retinas our actually only capable of perceiving yellows. (red and green cones activated) (blue cones top out way sooner)
if we want to see faint details at low brightness, pure green works best because it only activates green cones, thats why night vision goggles are green. - displaced1, on 12/31/2008, -3/+31If it was, earth as we know it would not exist. Blue stars are very hot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classificatio ... - Contrapulator, on 12/31/2008, -13/+40Dugg for the epic music.
- wilhoitm, on 12/31/2008, -0/+27Maybe aliens can't visit us because we are too small!
- DirtyVicar, on 12/31/2008, -0/+25What, -5 diggs... and "man, uranus is huge" gets 16 diggs? Bunch of kids.
- TheInformer, on 12/31/2008, -0/+24That's like comparing my debt to the national debt!
- deff, on 12/31/2008, -0/+23But if our sun was blue, Superman wouldn't have his powers.
- JamJosh, on 12/31/2008, -1/+23...light would take more than 8 hours to travel around the star's circumference.
GOD DAMN WHITE BOY!! - CoD4, on 12/31/2008, -1/+20said star, not blackhole
- FutureGuy, on 12/31/2008, -1/+20it would have to be an fing big curb
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+19Anyone wonder about the size of the largest planet out there, and how massive lifeforms could potentially be, or how small.
(compared with our scale) - ArmedRebel, on 12/31/2008, -4/+22http://digg.com/space/The_biggest_star_known_to_ma ...
- EarlOfLade, on 12/31/2008, -3/+20The universe couldn't care less about humans and humans will be wiped out without any effect on the universe whatsoever.
From a holistic perspective, humans don't even exist. - doublefelix, on 12/31/2008, -1/+17Are you Sirius?
- dtd00d, on 12/31/2008, -2/+18That's what she wanted to say, but her mouth was full.
- Virgule, on 12/31/2008, -0/+15"(...) To illustrate, if our Sun were replaced with VY Canis Majoris, its surface would extend to the orbit of Saturn. (...)"
Huge ass light bulb. - iizh, on 12/31/2008, -0/+15If it was blue, we would be commenting about how cool it would be to have a yellow sun.
- judicar, on 12/31/2008, -9/+24My 1000th comment
oh yeah ... the answer is Rosie O'Donnell - feliks2, on 12/31/2008, -0/+13Yellow stars are very hot.
- Encablossa, on 12/31/2008, -9/+20Buried for annoying music.
- j3ff86, on 12/31/2008, -0/+11Our sun is a dead pixel.
- displaced1, on 12/31/2008, -2/+13http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris
- Murdats, on 12/31/2008, -1/+12my 6,157th comment.
yes I have no life - Epitaph, on 12/31/2008, -0/+11god, we're a crude sort, us diggers
- wilhoitm, on 12/31/2008, -0/+10VY Canis Majoris is nothing compared to the power of the force!
- TheChunt, on 12/31/2008, -1/+11You're doing it wrong.
- Spure, on 12/31/2008, -1/+11i would just say old, but now there's music
- TheInformer, on 12/31/2008, -0/+9Barry White would have more material then.
- MrSlumberjack, on 12/31/2008, -0/+9Really interesting thought. Although, I would think that would be very rare. From what we know about the origins of life, it starts on the scale of particles and cells and works its way up. Maybe a very odd and long path of evolution would result in hypermassive life. I'm really interested in the origins of life. In January I'll be partaking in research involving this topic, funded by a $8 million NASA grant!
- mishaneah, on 12/31/2008, -0/+9random matrix and choppy reorganization does make for good visual comparison.
Better format with higher quality renderings:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-397446698 ... - jax0047, on 12/31/2008, -0/+8we'd probably have developed different eyes and we'd see our blue sun as white and suns like our sun now, the sun, as red. Wait a second, maybe our sun is blue... *****
- qotsa07, on 12/31/2008, -0/+8I'm scared
- Murdats, on 12/31/2008, -0/+8these thing would become black holes
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -1/+8People think power is somehow relative to the size of an object or some length in time. Size and length are meaningless. So what if the largest observable star is much larger than our solar system? Does it change who you are? And if so, how? Because you're a trillion times smaller than some star or that we can only exist a fraction of a percentage of the total age of our current universe? Most rocks are older than people, and most buildings are bigger than humans. Does this somehow mean your lives are less meaningful or relevant?
At least we attained consciousness--our appreciation of life and everything else in it. This accounts for something even if our moment in this universe is but a blink of an eye. - inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+7I dugg you down for mentioning that person/show
- TheNotoriousBIG, on 12/31/2008, -2/+9This video is older than the universe.
- vitaminz1990, on 12/31/2008, -3/+10What? No Tom Cruise?
- Murdats, on 12/31/2008, -0/+6the only meaning our lives have is the meaning we create for it, outside our pale blue dot it means nothing, only if we limit our scope to our own little personal world do we have power, meaning, purpose, significance and most of that is just an illusion we all follow along with.
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