… I mean, you wouldn't believe just how mind-bogglingly big it really is. You might think it's a long way to the corner shop, but that's just nothing compared to space…

http://htwins.net/scale/index.html

It's all relative really innit?

And it all came from something called the Big Bang? Bollocks!

The Big Bang Bollocks?

Woppit I was gonna type that quote but you already had it 🙁

Was trying to get my head around Astronomical units in a discussion with the wife the other day.. mind blowing!

Edit: saving that link for the wife to look at later, cheers for that!

The Big Bang Bollocks?

Stop bragging! 😀

That link is brill however 🙂

Now go look at the images from "Hubble Deep Field"

We are nought but insignificant bacteria on a tiny speck of dust.

Great innit?

That's a cool site but I think seeing it on a computer screen ruins it a bit, it would be fantastic on a 3m high projector screen so you have to strain your neck to see the next "step" whilst giving enough detail to see the smaller stuff.

I remember the natural history museum had a room with 1 million LED bulbs. They turned on first 1, then 1000 then 1000000. That was mind blowing too, humans just haven't evolved to really deal with large numbers yet. 😕

Its the final frontier!

get a life dude! 🙄

It's enough to make one believe in a higher power or something along those lines.

humans just haven't evolved to really deal with large numbers yet.

+1

Either really big or really small numbers. A light year is totally meaningless (to me) as I can't relate to it at all, in terms of distances I use everyday – it's just too big.

It's just pin-holes in the sky really.

humans just haven't evolved to really deal with large numbers yet

Why would we? Common sense is just what you need for the world around you – no need to struggle to comprehend this stuff.

The maths still works out, regardless of whether or not you can visualise the numbers 🙂

Higher power?
Nahhhh, the more you look in to it, the more inevitable life becomes, we have just been lucky enough to evolve through a period of reletave stability after the ice age gave us the impetus to kick start intelligence

we have just been lucky enough to evolve

Explain 'luck'.

Used as a figure of speech..For someone who don't believe in luck only good or bad deciscions, that's a tough question!

Anthropic reasoning.

For someone who don't believe in luck only good or bad deciscions, that's a tough question!

Explain 'good or bad decisions'.

pale blue dot, etc.

you are here:

carl sagan and that…

It's just pin-holes in the sky really.

We are all just little pricks floating around in space

EDIT: oops too late

still sort of proves a point 🙂

A good decision is where taking a chance or risk has a beneficial pay off and vice versa. Some people would ascribe this to fate or luck.

Say choosing redrum in a race and it romping home. It wasn't luck, it was the right decision.
There is nothing devine or supernatural at work.

Anthropic principle

Starter for ten: Who said I just walked past a car and the registration plate said (sic) SDK 511 S Amazing!

There is nothing devine or supernatural at work.

Luck doesn't imply the divine – the opposite in fact, to me.

Luck is pure chance. Like needing a double 6 in monopoly, and getting it.

Choosing a winning horse based on researching form and whatnot – good decision.

Choosing a winning horse based on sticking a pin in the paper – luck.

nothing to see here, move on…

What has luck or good or bad (Human) decisions got to do with the formation and existence of the Universe?

Nothing.

science! being awesome as usual:

you don't need to understand the graph, but it shows how closely the best human model of the universe/big bang fits with observed data.