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 Posted: Sun, 5th Feb 2012 17:23 Post subject: Scale of the Universe |
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ixigia
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Feb 2012 18:20 Post subject: |
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Wow, awesome! 
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nerrd
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Feb 2012 18:31 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Feb 2012 18:48 Post subject: |
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Makes you feel inconsequential, doesn't it?
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garus
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Feb 2012 18:48 Post subject: |
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snip
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zmed
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Feb 2012 19:59 Post subject: |
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Great flash. Sagan put it very nicely several times. He would have loved it.
| Carl Sagan wrote: | | In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed"? Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way." |
| Carl Sagan wrote: | | Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors. |
| Carl Sagan wrote: | | Consider again 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 wrote: | | Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. |
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Feb 2012 01:02 Post subject: |
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Even with it right in front of my face, and a handy slider so I can go at my own pace, these sizes are, well and truly, incomprehensible to me. Awe inspiring nonetheless!
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Feb 2012 18:36 Post subject: |
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North america nebula..
lol. why am i not suprised 
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Feb 2012 00:13 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Scale of the universe [Nuked] (dupe, get Lathieza) |
@sabin
The part where they say to circle this planet in a plane it would take 1200 years to circle it once, OMFG 
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Feb 2012 10:39 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Feb 2012 22:38 Post subject: |
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therefore aliens
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