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Neil
14-Apr-2009, 01:24 PM
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg
DawnGirl27
14-Apr-2009, 04:08 PM
Wow - that's amazing! I've never really seen something so comprehensive like this before. Thanks for sharing!
Neil
14-Apr-2009, 05:47 PM
My p**** seems particularly small now :(
krakenslayer
14-Apr-2009, 07:15 PM
My p**** seems particularly small now :(

But Uranus is fucking massive! :lol::lol:

Sorry, had to, :D
MinionZombie
14-Apr-2009, 08:58 PM
But Uranus is fucking massive! :lol::lol:

Sorry, had to, :D
:lol:

Neil, Kraken - both of you - classics. :D

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Also - that picture is effin' EPIC. I mean seriously mind blowing ... put that in your creationist pipe and smoke it. :p

Anyway, it does speak to what I often say about life, the universe and everything - it's so preposterously impossible to understand that it's literally unexplainable and that the common theme of religions is far too simple a way to explain it - that's my view anyway.

I've saved that picture, must show it to my folks - it's just so crazy-crazy mind blowing - that bit about the galaxy that's 8 times the size of the Milky Way being something that 'shouldn't technically exist' (because of current theories) is just epic on it's own, nevermind all that.

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It would be awesome if, when you die, you get to find out about all this shit ... ... that doesn't happen most probably, but in some 'end of a movie' type way, that'd be awesome. :)
MaximusIncredulous
14-Apr-2009, 10:12 PM
All I can say is... wow.
clanglee
15-Apr-2009, 03:32 AM
"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."
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


also I love this little quote


in an infinite universe the one thing sentient life cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
Mike70
15-Apr-2009, 05:13 AM
that is an awesome pic and the perspective that it offers is kinda eerie when you think about.

hell, in our own solar system the sun contains 99.8% of the matter and jupiter is most of the rest.

to put VV Cephei in context: it is 2.4 BILLION km across and about 500,000 times as luminous as the sun. if placed in our solar system it would extend out almost to the orbit of saturn.:stunned:

"there are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy..."