my sun is bigger than your sun.
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- SteveJobs0
i thought this thread would be about illiterate fathers bragging comparitively about their offspring's unnatural size
- dasohr0
uranus is bigger than earth
- dskz0
we are nothing but dust in the wind in a bigbang explosion of matter. Our lifetime is but a fraction of the smallest fraction of time. Yet we are so complicated.
- _niko0
Honestly, seeing all this, a tiny blue spec of nothingness that is earth, what is the chance that:
a) we are lone life supporting planet in the universe
b) we are created in god's image and are masters of said universe.
c) a fart from one of those hyper-stars can wipe out a million earths and there's nothing that ben afflec and bruce willis can do about it.
- dskz0
what a beautiful jewel of a planet that we have
- flyingnowhere0
that makes me want to quit my job
that makes god not exist
that makes me invisible
like a super hero
that isnt very super
or hero-eee
but is still invisibleand now i feel alive, thanks
- dskz0
woah, Binary star is cool. A blue sun...wow.
- fugged0
Apparently if you were to put VV Cephei in our solar system at the position of our sun, it would swallow all planets up to Saturn and just about touch Uranus.
I'm guessing it would have actually touched Uranus, but encountered some Klingons and decided otherwise.
- neue75_bold0
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on Earth there'd be no life
Without the light it gives
We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There'd be no you and meThe sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
The sun is hot
It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.
The sun is large
If the sun were hollow, a million Earths could fit inside. And yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.
The sun is far away
About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small.
And even when it's out of sight
The sun shines night and day
The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's
Atomic energy
Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees- *bells rings dimly*
What's that from, fnuggf?detritus - They might be giants!neue75_bold
- which track? album??emecks
- Oh. er.. Thanks. I'm not too familiar with TMBG, so don't know what bell was ringing dimly. Tinnitus?detritus
- it was a single http://www.amazon.co…neue75_bold
- I figured it would be off of one of their kiddie albumsPoint5
- Appollo 18 woulda been appropriate too :)emecks
- *bells rings dimly*
- fugged0
VV Cephei is one big fucking star.
- Jaline0
emecks should post this at http://spacecollective.org/
- detritus0
I happened to be reading up on Betelgeuse recently and was impressed to learn that we've actually resolved an image of the actual disc of the star - not just a point of light, but an actual substantial image..
Also, I was playing with Celestia a while back and went to the Betelgeuse system, at about the distance Earth would be from our sun - and it's amazing - the star wholly fills the sky from horizon to horizon. Kind of mind boggling to think that, in the grand scheme of things, it's not even a particularly huge star.
- oh man, I knew some post with big words was going to be coming soon by detritus.Jaline
- ;)Jaline
- vwhatt?! I can't help it if the star happens to be named after a famous 80s spookgothic movie!detritus
- in retrospect I wish I had hung out with the kid who was into astronomy.emecks
- if we say detritus 3 times do you appear?7point34
- No, I disappear up my own arse. And PLEASE don't try it - I've only recently got all the poo oot me ears after last timedetritus
- Aye, mx - these days I wish I WAS that kid.detritus
- totally! Glad I wasn't him then though....emecks
- I was into astronomy, but I don't know as much as detritus does. I need a bf who's into astronomy... :)Jaline
- Damn you, Atlantic, DAMN YOU!
*shakes fist at sea*detritus - hahaJaline
- Drno0
- stem0
I was just surprised at how big Uranus is...
- locustsloth0
Very interesting, but my wife always tells me that size does't matter (and then she gazes off into space and sighs)
- does she also tell you that it is better to be fast instead of good?flashbender
- Do you know my wife?!?locustsloth
- Uranus is bigger than the entire Earth!AndyRoss
- flashbender0
no shit - why the hell would someone waste 1.2megs on that?
interesting though