Keeping It In Perspective

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www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

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[Chuchichastli]

I love that kinda thing. Reminds me of Monty Python's cheery 'The Galaxy Song':

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 90 miles a second (so it's reckoned)
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.

The Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,
It's 100,000 light-years side to side,
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point
And we go round every two hundred million years,
And our Galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding Universe!

The Universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz.
As fast as it can go,
The speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is,
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How AMAZINGLY UNLIKELY is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there's bugger-all down here on Earth!'

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I love that song.

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[Zarathustra]

That was cool. It actually got my kids to stop watching Sponge Bob to take a look.

[dlbpharmd]

yeah, really cool, thanks for the link!

[stonemaybe]

Nice link. Reminds me of Father Ted "Small cows.......FARAWAY cows" for some reason.

[Prebe]

Yeah, totally cool link. But if memory serves me right Mars is just about earth sized. In fact it looks that way at slide two too.

[The Somberlain]

Yeah, totally cool link. But if memory serves me right Mars is just about earth sized. In fact it looks that way at slide two too.

That's Venus. Mars is the third one along in the 2nd picture.

[Prebe]

Well, apparently memory did NOT serve me right. Sorry. It's a good thing that nothing important hinges on my ready knowledge of astronomy

Edit: I could of course claim that this is what I remembered:

Though Mars is much smaller than Earth, its surface area is about the same as the land surface area of Earth.

But nobody would believe me. Nor should they. Heh!

[Tulizar]

Well, apparently memory did NOT serve me right. Sorry. It's a good thing that nothing important hinges on my ready knowledge of astronomy

Edit: I could of course claim that this is what I remembered:

Though Mars is much smaller than Earth, its surface area is about the same as the land surface area of Earth.

But nobody would believe me. Nor should they. Heh!

Not even I would fall for that one!


Great link. (Frantically googling Antares, Aldebaran and Arcturus...)