we are so small
we are so small
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- Nairn0
One of my favourite means of visualising the enormity of Things is to imagine that our sun was replaced by the star Betelgeuse.
If it were so, and you were to look up into the sky one day, the entire sky, from horizon to horizon would be filled entirely by the new Sun.
- and Betelgeuse isn't even one of the largest stars, according to your gif thing.Nairn
- Actually, shit - sorry - I meant 'Antares'. Not Betelgeuse. Nearly though.Nairn
- it would cover the entire inner planets. so you won't be able to look at all... being dead and all..plash
- Probably, yes :) Though it'd still be of the same mass, and presumably, of a lower energy radiation?Nairn
- er.. I mean, if our sun swelled up to that size, which it will at some far off point.Nairn