Off Topic – How Big Do You Think We Are?

Posted by admin on June 26, 2007
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Now, THIS is really fascinating - I’ve never really given this any thought whatsoever, but it’s rather dazzling to see it presented this way. 

I certainly thought this was enlightening. Didn’t even realize we knew much beyond our sun. It’s a big universe.

Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky.It is more than 1000 light years away.

… so . how significant should we really be feeling, right about now?

 

Thanks for reading,

 

Dave

2 Comments


  1. William Zeitler

    Another way of looking at it: the Sun accounts for 99.9% of the mass of our solar system. All the planets, of which Earth is on the small side, are basically microscopic dust motes orbiting around the sun.

    July 25th, 2007 at 11:32 am


  2. Chris Raine

    Hi Dave

    I was just scanning your blog and came across this post, along time after it was posted I accept.

    Wow, it does put things into perspective and just took my mind off things for a moment.

    Sorry I have never seen this before!

    Thanks for a great blog, its good to drop by and see what your up to.

    Chris Raine

    June 11th, 2008 at 7:41 am

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