Feeling small and insignificant?

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Feeling small and insignificant?

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Well you should!

An amusing size comparisson of planets and stars...
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx1G8GWS
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Cue to the Monty Python Galaxy Song and a couple of Liver Donors Inc. representatives.
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This really works better in video form, I think. Still great for a sense of scale.
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I know you didn't mean me, but, what the hell, I'd have posted this before if my office didn't have youtube blocked :wink:

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VY Canis Majoris.

I did not know there were stars as big as that. That's almost cartoony huge in comparison to the sun.
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Video of those size comparisons images, with music and giant galaxy-throwing mecha.



And since this looks like one of those threads, it's time for Animaniacs.

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Aren't we inside a marble?

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Makes me think of the people who are afraid, for some reason, of large distances and long periods of time. Some choice examples are on this page, about 1/4 to 1/2 the way down.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/H ... l/RealLife
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Shinova wrote:VY Canis Majoris.

I did not know there were stars as big as that. That's almost cartoony huge in comparison to the sun.
That thing is roughly a light-hour across! :shock:
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