Dec 13, 2007 03:33PM GMT
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Science - Space & Astronomy
This will make you feel small
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Although the earth is bigger than a four of our neighbor planets (Pluto is not even considered a planet now), as you can see here:
Earth is dwarfed in size by 4 other of our planetary neighbors:
But when viewed to scale in a graphic that includes the Sun, Earth can barely even be seen as a speck. If you add up all of the mass in our Solar system – the Sun and the planets; the Sun contains 99.9% of the total mass!
As big as the Sun is, it’s not the biggest thing we can see in the sky. Look at the Sun compared to some of the others that we can see with our naked eyes:
And those aren’t even the BIG BOYS. Even the biggest star shown above, Arcturus, is reduced to a tiny dot on a graphic compared to some of the BIG stars that are just hanging around in our neighborhood:
Did that make you feel small?
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Answered No
The human imgination is not capable of picturing something that big all at once. Saying that something is millions of miles across has no meaning; if it gets to big, it's just a number. Also, this does not make me feel small; I just know that stars are very big. -
Answered No
"This will make you feel small?" What? Are you not sure whether this will make you feel small? So, like, someone told you this will make you feel small, and now you are asking whether it will? You might want to rethink your wording. Or finish highschool. -
Answered Yes
"Earth is big enough for me. I don't see the point in comparing it to other things on an astronomical scale, because it has no relevance to life."
Because the fact that we consider ourselves so important is laughable in the face of such massive phenomena. -
Answered No
Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There are even bigger stars than Betelgeuse!
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I really enjoyed that K-man!!! But, for whatever it's worth, I still think that the earth is the most beautiful and interesting planet in all the universe!