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| Old Man Mike |
 08/16/06 3:29pm
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This series of pictures show how small our planet Earth is and then how small even our home star (the Sun) is compared to other nearby stars:
     And if that is not sobering enough, consider this the next time you look up at the night sky: There are more stars in our universe than there are grains of sands in all the beaches on earth! a very small Old Man Mike This post has been edited by Old Man Mike: 08/16/06 3:33pm |
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| M@ster of Dis@ster |
08/16/06 3:35pm
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Now I know how all those guys who drive Hummers in a city feel.
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| Genocide Junkie |
08/16/06 3:49pm
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What if our universe is really just one atom in a cell of some bug about to go SPLAT on the windshield of a car?
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| pezking |
08/16/06 4:00pm
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QUOTE(Old Man Mike @ 08/16/06 4:29pm)  BeetleJuice, BeetleJuice, BeetleJuice!  --------------------  |
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| Wotansvolk |
08/16/06 4:14pm
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You said it three times!!!.....what were you thinkin!!!
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| CommanderChoth |
08/16/06 4:20pm
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lol, wow, that's really cool stuff there Mike. There is a book that you should read if you are interested in the nature of the universe: A Brief History of Time by Hawkins.
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| Old Man Mike |
08/16/06 4:27pm
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QUOTE(CommanderChoth @ 08/16/06 5:20pm) lol, wow, that's really cool stuff there Mike. There is a book that you should read if you are interested in the nature of the universe: A Brief History of Time by Hawkins. but dude, that one star is like wicked big Thanks. And yep, I've read Hawkins. I can recommend others if you are interested. I do astrophotography and you can see some of my humble work here: http://www.af9y.com/astro40.htm Old Man Mike |
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| Lord Lipton |
08/16/06 4:33pm
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that stuff is amazing, mike! very awesome stuff.
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| Druid |
08/16/06 8:29pm
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good post mike
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| SKTemplarRD |
08/19/06 9:56am
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The pics are pretty interesting and actually we still really can't imagine just the magnitude of the larger stars are. I didn't realize how much larger some of the other stars are. Good job.
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| Stryker9 |
08/19/06 2:35pm
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ASTRONOMY !! One of my earlier adventures as well....
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| UNDEAD 1 |
08/19/06 4:11pm
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Major General Group: {MOB} Posts: 2753 Joined: January 17th 2006 Member No.: 1540 Xfire: UNDEADJAMES |
mike ,question-how come we can all of a sudden see these new planets,stars etc..? when i first heard they found them they dont look any further than the rest of plantes in our solar system. i find it very interesting and both my wife and i were looking through these picks,very cool.
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| sironyx |
08/19/06 8:17pm
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This is the kind of thing that will give me an ice-cream headache for the next week or two as I think about it.
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| Old Man Mike |
08/20/06 2:06am
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QUOTE(UNDEAD 1 @ 08/19/06 5:11pm) mike ,question-how come we can all of a sudden see these new planets,stars etc..? when i first heard they found them they dont look any further than the rest of plantes in our solar system. i find it very interesting and both my wife and i were looking through these picks,very cool. You are probably referring to the recently discovered Xena. Xena is about twice as far away as Pluto and about 100 times dimmer. Let me leave you with a little perspective about the distances involved with planets and stars: - If the Earth was the size of a grain of sand, the sun would be about 5 feet away. The planet Pluto would be about 220 feet away and that new Xena planet would be about 500 feet away. - BUT the "nearby" stars shown in the pictures above would range from 500 to 50,000 miles away. - AND most of the other stars in the universe would be more than 100 Million times the distance of those "nearby" stars We are both VERY small and VERY far away from most everything in the universe. Old Man Mike |
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| UNDEAD 1 |
08/20/06 7:39am
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Major General Group: {MOB} Posts: 2753 Joined: January 17th 2006 Member No.: 1540 Xfire: UNDEADJAMES |
I just read last night that theyv ruled out jupiter as a planet,is that true?
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