it's a really reallly realllly small world!!!!

So what you're saying is, we need a bigger telescope?

 

Amazing.

DD

 

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ust remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen 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 we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand 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, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred 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, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve 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.
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crazy stuff

 

I knew it was small since I was like 5 because I bumped into my next door neighbor (I lived in Saudi Arabia) during the first Gulf War when we evacuated back to the states, at the Memorial Mall in Houston.

 

someone took the time to rip those still frames from a ytmnd?

weird..

 

exactly what i was about to post, minus the random bra size you included.

 

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So fascinating, I love this stuff.

I hope I get to meet some aliens before I'm gone.

 

too bad the same can't be said about the image you posted.

 

It's a really really really large OP!!!!

 

Wow....

 

its hard to take that in. i wonder if anyone out there is a fan of george bush.

 

Nah. Unless they come to us that is. I've done many months of pentagon research into this matter and it won't happen on our end for quite a while.

We either need a warp drive or a way to manipulate gravity into virtually unlimited energy. That or we need to inject anti-freeze in our veins in place of blood and then cryostasis will be clearly feasible.

 

That's cool, but how does this compare to the size of Earth?

 

Gilly???? GILLLLLLYYYYYYYYY?? Did you inject anti-freeze into rhostetler's veins?????? HMMMMMMMM???





sorry.

 

Fascinating. Something else that makes you feel pretty meaningless:

I didn't come up with that, and obviously not everyone is going to believe the same, but it does make you feel pretty small.

 

[derail]I have never hated a skit more in the history of SNL. Does anyone find it funny at all? [/derail]

 

Largest known star is VY Canis Majoris, not VV Cephai. I think that one is third, actually, IIRC.