Just how tiny is Earth?

nathan. · 28th August 2009, 9:47 AM

Apologies if it has already been posted, but this is a fucking awesome picture.

PsychoSmiley · 28th August 2009, 10:09 AM

All that space to explore and sadly I'll never see any of it in my life time. Oh to live the Star Trek lifestyle of exploring the universe.

*sighs whistfully*

And to compliment it...

doug81 · 28th August 2009, 10:57 AM

nice picture

have seen a few of them before, but all together it looks really cool. I was trying to explain some of this to my fiancee so it's handy having this as a link...

hippyhippy · 28th August 2009, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by PsychoSmiley

All that space to explore and sadly I'll never see any of it in my life time.

such is life ...

thebranded · 28th August 2009, 11:35 AM

that pic is confusing

whats larger, VV Cephai or VY Canis Majoris?

PsychoSmiley · 28th August 2009, 11:42 AM

Canis Majoris is the bigger one.

EDIT: Oh. I see. Seems like two separate comparison pics spliced together. Still going with Canis Majoris.

nathan. · 28th August 2009, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by PsychoSmiley

Canis Majoris is the bigger one.

EDIT: Oh. I see. Seems like two separate comparison pics spliced together. Still going with Canis Majoris.

yep, Canis Majoris is bigger. The "did seeing this make you feel small" pic looks like a different set, but the picture above it shows the comparison between V Cephei and Majoris.

computer newbie · 28th August 2009, 12:48 PM

Amazing, simply amazing. it really shows just how insignificant we are in the universe, when you see how much bigger the sun and Jupiter is compared to earth, and than other stars. it really dose give you a sense of, shit, if we destroy the earth, we are as good as dead.

HUMMER · 28th August 2009, 12:53 PM

we (planet earth) are an insignificant spec in space.

brettmo86 · 28th August 2009, 12:59 PM

In all of that, you would have to believe with 100% certainty that some form of life exists other than on earth?

Fortigurn · 28th August 2009, 1:15 PM

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Originally Posted by brettmo86

In all of that, you would have to believe with 100% certainty that some form of life exists other than on earth?

It's practically a foregone conclusion. The universe must be teeming with life, most of it unrecognizable to us. But there have to be other life forms out there which are well beyond us.

In other news, there are stars larger than our entire solar system?

samos · 28th August 2009, 1:16 PM

Holy fucking shit. How big are some of those stars. How many of our solar systems would fit in there? Appears to be almost the size of a galaxy some of those stars.

Dezza Bot · 28th August 2009, 1:16 PM

But it's such a long walk to Perth from here. The Earth is huge! It's all relative.

cvidler · 28th August 2009, 1:17 PM

The smart folks of the interwebs, planned for this, that's why IPv6 has enough addresses for everything.

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Originally Posted by wikipedia

The very large IPv6 address space supports a total of 2¹²⁸ (about 3.4×10³⁸) addresses—or approximately 5×10²⁸ (roughly 2⁹⁵) addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion (6.5×10⁹) people alive in 2006. In a different perspective, this is 2⁵² addresses for every observable star in the known universe

We might have to start NATing planets.

darknebula · 28th August 2009, 1:19 PM

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Originally Posted by brettmo86

In all of that, you would have to believe with 100% certainty that some form of life exists other than on earth?

i have no doubt at all, i think its pretty self centre'd to think that we are so special as to be the only life in this universe.

and i only discovered the hubble deep field images a few weeks, planning to order these in massive poster size for the room of my bedroom

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nathan. Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 164	Just how tiny is Earth? Apologies if it has already been posted, but this is a fucking awesome picture.

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