Universe > You

[Szgk]

If you ever start feeling that you're significant...

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg

[Kotenku]

...fuck

[Ommadawn]

Wow....

[Szgk]

I think there is an error in the picture where Rigel is the largest star shown (it doesn't look like it's the largest, but Aldebaran is in reality smaller by 18 solar radii). It's diameter is 62 solar radii, while the orbit of Neptune, thus the size of our solar system is around 6450 solar radii. It means that no known star is in fact larger than the system of Sol -> VY Canis Majoris is 1800-2100 times the size of the Sun.

Correct me if my reasoning is wrong.

[TheMoonlightBecomesYou]

Wow.

[Listen in Silence]

So, there. Of course there's no chance there could ever be life out there!

[Luke Danger]

You never know, I don't beleive that humans are the only ones who evolved. I'm not sayin that there are little green guys running around, but honestly, given how big the universe is, we flat out -can't be the only sentiant life out there-.

[derfo]

itt people are bad at looking at everything

[Lansert]

Fools!  Now you can weep at the insignificance of your puny empires!  The whole of creation laughs at you!  And by the time you know it's laughing at you your sun will have turned into ash and background radiation!  Weep I say!

[Lux Lucis]

Who knows? Maybe humanity will be able to transverse the stars by then!

...and that's a big maybe.

[Sandstorm]

There used to be a video of this somewhere. Can someone find it?

[Caddies]

Really amazing. I wonder what some people prescribing to various religious ideologies think about this kind of thing!

[ScottyB]

All I can think about is how even forever isn't enough time to see our universe.

[Arthurian_Spark]

My stoner buddies and I have found a new messiah.

[DangerousDan]

Really amazing. I wonder what some people prescribing to various religious ideologies think about this kind of thing!

This.