Relatively Speaking, Our Sun is Tiny

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[BALLISTIC]

Re: Relatively Speaking, Our Sun is Tiny

WOW! Makes our lives seem trivial...

 

[Switchblade]

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Try totally and completely insignificant. If our sun is no larger than a spec on VY Canis Major's ass, we are not even the size of a atom universally speaking of course. With that thought in mind absolutely nothing matters so life here is pointless at a universal level. What we do just doesn't matter and we are even smaller than amoeba in a petri dish sucking up valuable oxygen and filling the whole of the living space with shit until we die

 

[Don Black]

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Here's a link to a format that drives the point even further.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

 

[Don Black]

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And for those of you who like lookin' on the scary side:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw&feature=related

 

[High Binder]

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It's weird to think about how everything you own and care about, even your mint condition Corvette that you wax everyday will someday rust and degrade into nothingness...

 

[50calibercruiser]

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There is a star named "Betelgeuse?" Must have been named by a Tim Burton fan.

 

[garrett]

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doesnt make me feel insignificant or trivial at all! makes me feel proud to be part of such an incredible and unimaginably vast universe. it does however shift your perception of what is valuable in life

 

[ArcticLight]

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If you want to really feel insignificant watch this...

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/


Or this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7xwu2i0mMU

 

[Red Ryder]

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All we are is..dust in the wind.

Maybe I'll write a song and use those as lyrics.

 

[Maser]

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Can they ever give a star a normal sounding name. Like Maser.

 

[Switchblade]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 50calcruiser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There is a star named "?" Must have been named by a Tim Burton fan. </div></div>

A little education will fix that

Etymology
The name Betelgeuse is a corruption of the Arabic yad al-jawz&#257; (&#1610;&#1583; &#1575;&#1604;&#1580;&#1608;&#1586;&#1575;&#1569, meaning "hand of the central one." The Arabs had earlier called Gemini Jauza ("the central one") but later switched this name to Orion.

European mistransliteration into Latin during the Middle Ages led to the first character y (&#65268;, with two dots underneath) being misread as a b (&#65170;, with only one dot underneath). Thus throughout the Renaissance, the star's name was written as Bait al-Jauza and thought to mean armpit of the central one in Arabic. This led to the modern rendering as Betelgeuse (although a true translation of "armpit" would be &#1575;&#1576;&#1591;, transliterated as Ib&#355;,[6] hence in 1899 Richard Hinckley Allen mistakenly gave the origin as Ib&#355; al Jauzah).[7] In German, the star's name was corrupted even further: it is called Beteigeuze, because the letter l in the Romanized name was mistaken for the letter i.

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Betelgeuse

 

[50calibercruiser]

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See, you do learn something new everyday.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

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Just when we thought we knew Everything...