The unimaginable sizes of being...

[byslantedlight]

Love this vid...

From NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, of course...

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[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I love this! Certainly puts up in our place, doesn't it?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It really does! *g*

[minori-k.livejournal.com]

Very interesting. I think there is no suitable word to express how big the universe is...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

There really isn't - unless, perhaps inconceivable! *g*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

This is a great one - I love these amazing size videos, and somehow I get the impression that this one might have been made by someone a tad pissed off with excessive centre-of-the-universe ideas (religion? ::whistles innocently::) *bg*

Thank you for passing it on!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heeee! Or maybe with everyone out there who thinks their personal issues (Pineapples frighten me!) and the like should be the centre of everyone else's universe... *g* And ha - which religion? But yeah - thinking about it another way, why on earth should it matter to anyone, religious or not, who loves who, for instance, considering everything so much more vast that must be out there..!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

And yes, size does matter. :nods:

I took an astronomy class in college (to round out some requirements, though it was also fun to discuss with the astrophysicist roommate). We discussed size more in terms of how long it would take light to travel places; but, yeah, the place is big out there. ;-)

There was an image I came across once, a to-scale rendering of the locations of the planets (with pictures at the appropriate places). Pluto-which-IS-a-planet! was easy to find because it was at the end; but finding anything else beyond Mars took a *lot* of horizontal scrolling back and forth.

I wonder if I have it bookmarked somewhere?

ETA: There it is! There it is! I found it: http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ah - hang on - I could get here via my lj inbox, but not via my lj... let's see if I can reply, you not-spam person, you... *g*

ETA - Yes! There you are!

Very cool link, too - thank you! It reminds me a bit of those actual... what are they? Installations, perhaps - where they've measured out the size of the solar system along a canal path, or through a city or something, and you walk and walk and walk to get from one planet to another, and just when you think they forgot to put Jupiter in at all - you eventually get there! It's just that it's sooo far away... *g*

And I agree - Pluto is a planet! Always has been, always will be!

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

What a fantastic link!
It was fun to go all the way!
Thanks for sharing!

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Cooool!!
Thanks for sharing!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thanks for saying thanks! *g*