Mind boggling

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LBltePDZw&feature=player_embedded

it's pretty big isn't it this universe thing

CWP's head is going to fall off when he sees this!

 

Hopefully some spastic doesn't say "it's boring".

 

 

Utternly mind blowing, as you say. Not sure how true this is but a friend told me that light off stars hitting earth now can be from 150 million years ago.

 

 

Edit: He's already seen it. It'll be falling off soon.

Edited August 14, 201213 yr by no balls

*plonk*

Not sure how true this is but a friend told me that light off stars hitting earth now can be from 150 million years ago.

Right, I've just put my head back on.

 

This is a true fact. If a star is 150 million light years away, then clearly the light that we see from the stars now would have left that star 150 million years ago. In fact, some of that stars that you see in the night sky, may have ceased to exist millions of years ago......

 

When we look at our own sun, we're not looking at what it looks like now, but what it looked like circa 8 minutes ago....

 

 

I think my heads going to fall off again

Right, I've just put my head back on.

 

This is a true fact. If a star is 150 million light years away, then clearly the light that we see from the stars now would have left that star 150 million years ago. In fact, some of that stars that you see in the night sky, may have ceased to exist millions of years ago......

 

When we look at our own sun, we're not looking at what it looks like now, but what it looked like circa 8 minutes ago....

 

 

I think my heads going to fall off again

 

I knew he was a bit of a space geek so did think it must be right.

 

The other fact he imparted was: working on scale of that mars is 50ft from earth. How far to our nearest star?

A: Capetown.

 

Pick your head back up.

Here's one for you NB

 

If the Earth was reduced to the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over 300 metres away and Pluto would be 2.5km away (and about the size of a bacterium) - Proxima Centauri, which is our nearest star would still be 16,000 kilometres away.

my mind cant cope with this

 

it blows me away

my mind cant cope with this

 

it blows me away

if you think about it for too long, your head actually falls off. FACT

Here's one for you NB

 

If the Earth was reduced to the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over 300 metres away and Pluto would be 2.5km away (and about the size of a bacterium) - Proxima Centauri, which is our nearest star would still be 16,000 kilometres away.

 

What sort? Are we talking petits-pois size here or marrowfat? It's important so I can do the maths.

if you think about it for too long, your head actually falls off. FACT

 

... and under no circumstances think about it whilst undoing your belly button.

What sort? Are we talking petits-pois size here or marrowfat? It's important so I can do the maths.

You know what, I just knew you of all people were going to ask that very question......I obviously know you too well.

 

Anyway, I would suggest it's a common of garden petit-pois, as a marrowfat is the pea of the devil

If you shave your pubes around the base of your cock you look 11-15% 'bigger' - someone told me, never tried it myself It's known in the industry (the porn industry not the astronomy one) as 'magnifying'.

 

What's this got to do with the secrets of the universe? Nothing much really...can't find another, more appropriate thread to impart this tip though.

 

EDIT: Make sure you 'blend/taper' the shaving tho' - my mate said, otherwise your old man will look like Friar Tuck.

Edited August 14, 201213 yr by Youri McAnespie

If you shave your pubes around the base of your cock you look 11-15% 'bigger' - someone told me, never tried it myself It's known in the industry (the porn industry not the astronomy one) as 'magnifying'.

 

What's this got to do with the secrets of the universe? Nothing much really...can't find another, more appropriate thread to impart this tip though.

 

 

Maybe you know this because you've just worked out that if your bell-end was the Earth, then Jupiter would be over 300 metres away?

 

Maybe you know this because you've just worked out that if your bell-end was the Earth, then Jupiter would be over 300 metres away?

 

 

Uranus would be a bit closer though

I got bored trying to find the milkyway, then I found it in my cupboard.

Fascinating and of course mind boggling,

I dont think I will ever get my head around how big the Universe is

If we could somehow observe another planet that was inhabited but say, 20 million light years away, and concluded that it was far less advanced than ours but rich with minerals that we quite fancy ourselves........it would be quite a shock to arrive there in 20 years and find some hugely advanced race that decides they quite fancy our minerals themselves.

 

I realise that this requires quite a few assumptions, namely the ability to travel at the speed of light yet also not bothering to have another look at the planet as we get a bit closer.

 

Some of the facts above are fantastic, one of the most enjoyable parts about reading Dawkins' books.

 

I'd settle for looking down at the Earth once in my lifetime.

It's a bit old now, and the joke is a bit tired but...from science and the universe to nob-enlargements in this clip:

 

Edited August 14, 201213 yr by Youri McAnespie

CWP's head is going to fall off when he sees this!

 

Hopefully some spastic doesn't say "it's boring".

 

 

Utternly mind blowing, as you say. Not sure how true this is but a friend told me that light off stars hitting earth now can be from 150 million years ago.

 

 

Edit: He's already seen it. It'll be falling off soon.

The oldest light seen by Hubble is 13 billion years old.

The furthest thing, give or take, you can see on a clear night with the unaided eye, if you know where to look, is the Andromeda galaxy. Worth doing and then pondering that if the whole solar system was the size of a cricket ball, what you're looking at now would be as far away as the moon...

I blame Prof. Heinz Wolff for me being a bit of a geek.

 

 

Ali G. was funny in a 5 minute sketch.

If Aliens don't really exisit, then how do you explain Garrp?

If we could somehow observe another planet that was inhabited but say, 20 million light years away, and concluded that it was far less advanced than ours but rich with minerals that we quite fancy ourselves........it would be quite a shock to arrive there in 20 years and find some hugely advanced race that decides they quite fancy our minerals themselves.

 

I realise that this requires quite a few assumptions, namely the ability to travel at the speed of light yet also not bothering to have another look at the planet as we get a bit closer.

 

Some of the facts above are fantastic, one of the most enjoyable parts about reading Dawkins' books.

 

I'd settle for looking down at the Earth once in my lifetime.

the biggest of your assumptions is that WE could travel the 20 million light years

 

if we could travel at the speed of light it would take 20 million years

 

Humans have been around for about 50,000 years so for us to travel 20 million light years we would have to travel for 400 times longer than Humans have walked the earth

 

The Earth is only 100 million years old so we would have to travel 1/5 of the life of the earth just to get there

 

thats alot of dielsel

Edited August 14, 201213 yr by birch-chorley

If you collected all the matter in the universe, provided tou didnt explode first you could fit it into an empty baked beans tin by twatting it in with a hammer.

 

 

 

 

The Earth is only 100 million years old

 

No it isn't, it is much older than that.

 

I think you are confusing the age of the earth & the age of Jim Davidson's act.

 

Nick nick.

Fascinating and of course mind boggling,

I dont think I will ever get my head around how big the Universe is

nor the things in it, that are just tiny dots in it