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You must have a bigger monitor than me cos I had to keep scrolling down.

Woah – Honda make comets? Cool!

Space is big. Really 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.

On the subject of depth:

22 million years if continous scrolling, almost as long as a 650b v 26″ thread

Grrrr! Mariana Trench = Himalayas, Challenger Deep = Everest.

And you need to add 2012 (James Cameron) to the 1960 at the bottom.

I feel rather small and insignificant after looking at this thread now.

Solar System? Pah!

the scale of the universe

I preferred the other sea depth one – it swapped when I was about to post.

Really good these though (except the long cat)

Ive got cramp in my finger

Might make you feel small to start with, but when you think about it, we are not only composed of the same matter as the universe; we are also pretty much the most dynamic part so far discovered!

My phone just died scrolling down that lot..

Solar System? Pah!

the scale of the universe

I saw that for the first time last night. Impressively, it was done by 2 14yr brothers.

I preferred the other sea depth one – it swapped when I was about to post.

Removed as some bits were out of date, but here you go:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U[/video]

Long cat is no longer (HA!) as he was spoiling a good thread.

One thing I like to remember about the solar system is that The Sun is actually pretty small as stars go. If Betegeuse was at the centre of the solar system not only would the entire orbit of earth be contained within it, we’d be closer to the centre of the star than to its edge – which would be approximately at the orbit of Jupiter. Other stars are almost twice the size of Betelgeuse.

If you scaled up the atoms in a grapefruit to the size of blueberries, the grapefruit would be the size of the Earth. The nucleus of the atom would still be too small to see with the naked eye.

To be able to see the atom’s nucleus easily, you would need to enlarge the atom to the size of a football stadium. The nucleus would then be the size of a small marble. Between this nucleus and the electrons is nothing.

Most of what we can see in the universe is nothing. Most of what the universe is made of, we can’t see.

Most of what the universe is made of, we can’t see.

“Most” undersells it a bit really doesn’t it? 95% of what the universe is made of, we can’t see or directly observe in any other way.

On the subject of depth:

For a minute there I thought the ‘frightening looking’ fish at 13,120 FT beneath sea level included the Fleshlight Fish.

“Most” undersells it a bit really doesn’t it? 95% of what the universe is made of, we can’t see or directly observe in any other way.

95.1%

🙂

That ‘Farthest travelled by human beings’ bit after the Moon, is that Pink Floyd then?

Its all a bit wild this existence lark… Even in our immediate surroundings we only see a minute slice of the full spectrum of the composition of the world around us; a bit like our sensory equipment is hardwired to receive just that which our limited processing potential can efficiently interpret.

Wonder how quick your brain would fry if we were exposed to the full depth of the matter that surrounds and binds us.

Blimey, I’ve gone all Jedi

but don’t forget even after all this mind boggling scale – god still really doesn’t like the gays.

Wonder how quick your brain would fry if we were exposed to the full depth of the matter that surrounds and binds us.

As Slartibartfarst said when entering hyperspace “it scares the willies out of me”.

a bit like our sensory equipment is hardwired to receive just that which our limited processing potential can efficiently interpret.

Or ‘a bit like the fact that we’ve evolved to perceive the things we need to find food, shelter, a mate and to avoid threats’. But yeah, imagine being able to perceive stuff across the full EM and gravitational spectrum, then add dark hoo-haw into that and we’d all spend 99.9% of the time just oggling what was around us.

Wonder how quick your brain would fry if we were exposed to the full depth of the matter that surrounds and binds us.

Into the Total Perspective Vortex!

I had to scroll right down to the bottom before I found somewhere I could afford to buy a detached house with off road parking.

e are also pretty much the most dynamic part so far discovered!

…by us, that is. Who knows what’s been discovered by the bits we haven’t yet (knowingly and publicly confirmed to have) discovered…

what happened to that dog then?

arrrgggh! Don’t start this one again! I always end up thinking even if there is an edge, there must be something on the other side and that must be contained within something as it couldn’t just exist out of nothing, then I always think of the end of the MIB film and figure that’ll do as an explanation!

what happened to that dog then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_dogs

I think Veterok and Ugolyok went the furthest and they both survived

what happened to that dog then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika

Awesome thread!

Awesome thread!

Quite lidderally, mate.

Not hard to see why “god did it” is a popular explanation, the sheer scale of stuff (in both directions) is incredibly difficult for our little human brains to comprehend.

I think current observations indicate that the universe is flat and goes on for ever in all directions.

In that case each of us can claim to be at the centre of our own universe.

Which is sort of comforting.

It can’t be flat and go on for ever in all directions.

Flat as in it doesn’t curve back on itself.

Now my head hurts.