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Are you trying to humble me, or get me excited for a game of marbles? :P LOL
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Kickass! Really puts things into perspective, but if you pulled back even further, Antares wouldn't even be a mote amongst motes in the universe. Maybe like a nano-small lepton amongst leptons...
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WOW! What kind of camera do you have?!?!?!?!?!!!! 8O 8O 8O 8O
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How did Pluto get onto these pics? Pesky little Kuiper Belt Object, sneaking in where it doesn't belong...
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This reminds me of Douglas Adams....there should be another picture, with Antares microscopic, and a huge circle labelled 'me'!
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Murrin wrote:How did Pluto get onto these pics? Pesky little Kuiper Belt Object, sneaking in where it doesn't belong...
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Just add a Black Hole about the size of Pluto to crush all those giants as Hawking would've had us believe into... Nothing, if they ever got close enough to one.

I heard he revised his conclusion of Information loss back to Information remains when it came to the his theory on Black Holes.

Neat size comparison.
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Kevin164 wrote: I heard he revised his conclusion of Information loss back to Information remains when it came to the his theory on Black Holes.
Yes, that's right. He involved the holographic principle.
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Murrin wrote:How did Pluto get onto these pics? Pesky little Kuiper Belt Object, sneaking in where it doesn't belong...
PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET!!!!











































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Whoah.

Sorry if I startled you, but you touched a nerve with me ;)
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Hey, It's not the size of your planet that matters, but what you do with it that counts...
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Rigel wrote:
Murrin wrote:How did Pluto get onto these pics? Pesky little Kuiper Belt Object, sneaking in where it doesn't belong...
PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET!!!!
The IAU disagrees with you.
The definition of "planet" set in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) states that in the Solar System a planet is a celestial body that:

1. is in orbit around the Sun,
2. has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape), and
3. has "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit.

A non-satellite body fulfilling only the first two of these criteria is classified as a "dwarf planet", which is not a type of planet
which is not a type of planet
not a type of planet
not a planet
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I'm with Murrin on this one...if you leave Pluto as a planet...then we now have 13 planets, is it?
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which is not a type of planet
not a type of planet
not a planet
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It's still real to me, dammit!
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Earthfriend wrote:Hey, It's not the size of your planet that matters, but what you do with it that counts...
... and the moon is responsible for the "motion of the ocean". :D
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Murrin wrote:
Rigel wrote:
Murrin wrote:How did Pluto get onto these pics? Pesky little Kuiper Belt Object, sneaking in where it doesn't belong...
PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET!!!!
The IAU disagrees with you.
Who cares about them? Sounds like a bunch of tree huggers or people who make sure milk's homogenized.
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When the sun rises, it rises for you.

Yes, for you. Just for you. Only for you. You are it, everything, the whole universe with all the billion galaxies and stars. The separateness you feel is only a mask you have put on to enjoy this human form. Under the mask, your shape is All. How far can you now feel your Self expand? To your parent?... to your child?... to your friend?... to a stranger on a street?... half way around the globe? ~ from one of my favorite Facebook apps.

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It just feels like it does...
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This puts whole new perspective on the "yo momma so fat" jokes.
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It'd take a special kind of geekiness to make a 'yo momma so fat' joke that made a comparison to Aldebaran.
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