That's awesome. Favorite line: "Our sun probably gets its lunch money stolen."
Cool vid from IBM in 1977(!) in a similar vein.
http://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0
Sure puts your own being in perspective ..facts line up and we are minuscule
icdart said:
Sure puts your own being in perspective ..facts line up and we are minuscule
But where is Village Coffee?
My favorite was how if Earth had rings like Saturn, how it would look. That is so cool!
Its amazing to see how vast the universe is and then sit back and wonder: "Man, I'm the center of all that!"
Does anyone have Donald Trump's e-mail address? Although, I'm afraid, he'd disagree with the entire concept.
However interesting it might be to squeeze all of the planets between us and the moon, I would object to such an experiment.
dave said:
However interesting it might be to squeeze all of the planets between us and the moon, I would object to such an experiment.
Oh, think of the tides we'd have!
marylago said:
My favorite was how if Earth had rings like Saturn, how it would look. That is so cool!
Me, too.
Fascinating stuff; Although I think I probably knew a lot of it before, it's still quite startling to see it all laid out like that.
I always feel slightly dizzy when I look at these pictures. It is so miraculous how our precise position in our solar system supports life on Earth. Just something slightly off could have enormous impact. We are just gnats in the broad scheme of things.
buzzfeed.com: 26 Pictures Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-universe-is-scary#.mpZ5AZMMW