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Posted: 12/29/2011 2:45:14 PM EDT
I put this in a Science and Math thread, but figured everyone else might enjoy it.
You can right click>view image to see it full size. 
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Posted: 12/29/2011 2:49:23 PM EDT
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Very cool.
Or maybe it's really hot. 
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Posted: 12/29/2011 2:50:23 PM EDT
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Neat!
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Posted: 12/29/2011 2:54:30 PM EDT
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Never realized Venus was larger than Mars or that Mars was that small. Learn something new everyday I guess. I thought Venus was relatively tiny and mars was only slightly smaller than earth. I guess the image does not differentiate which stage of their cycle the stars are in, IIRC the largest will (relatively) soon go nova if they have not already.
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Posted: 12/29/2011 2:55:02 PM EDT
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Where's that demotivational poster that has the universe pictured, and the caption "Nothing you ever do will mattewr. Ever."?
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Posted: 12/29/2011 2:56:16 PM EDT
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This video is sort of fun as well.
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Posted: 12/29/2011 2:59:13 PM EDT
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GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOU AND YOUR SCIENCE!
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Posted: 12/29/2011 2:59:32 PM EDT
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I beleive you meant to title the thread:
Comparison chart of the largest planets we know of. |
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:02:43 PM EDT
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I beleive you meant to title the thread: Comparison chart of the largest planets we know of. 
VY Canis Majoris sure is a large planet! |
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:04:15 PM EDT
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Quoted: I beleive you meant to title the thread: Comparison chart of the largest planets we know of. Stars=!Planets. |
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:06:02 PM EDT
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Quoted: I believe you meant to title the thread: Comparison chart of the largest stars we know of. Fixed! |
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:06:05 PM EDT
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I beleive you meant to title the thread: Comparison chart of the largest planets we know of. The planets are only shown so we have a chance of wrapping our puny human brains around that sense of scale. Everything from Wolf 359 on is a star. |
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:08:34 PM EDT
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Quoted: I beleive you meant to title the thread: Comparison chart of the largest planets we know of. Maybe planets were involved to give a reference to the size of the stars, since people know planets are "big", instead of just the big stars themselves (the main point of the pictures) which without, would just be different size circles with no scale. Frame of reference, how does it work? |
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:11:48 PM EDT
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I really don't appreciate you saying that my anus is larger than Earth. That's not very nice at all.
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:15:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:19:29 PM EDT
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Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:21:30 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I beleive you meant to title the thread: Comparison chart of the largest planets we know of. The planets are only shown so we have a chance of wrapping our puny human brains around that sense of scale. Everything from Wolf 359 on is a star. Holy shit. I had no idea that was actually a star. |
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:21:58 PM EDT
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Well, great balls of fire!
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:28:42 PM EDT
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I beleive you meant to title the thread: Comparison chart of the largest planets we know of.
VY Canis Majoris sure is a large planet! It gets worse, just wait!!! Some "young earther" will soon be by to tell us the stars were put there by god to test our faith like dinosaur bones were. 
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:31:06 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:35:23 PM EDT
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This video is sort of fun as well.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I&feature=relatedThis is a very good argument for the existence of intelligent life other than us. |
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Posted: 12/29/2011 3:54:36 PM EDT
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What is this " Math " of which you speak ?
and holy hell those are huge. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 5:46:49 AM EDT
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This video is sort of fun as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I&feature=relatedThis is a very good argument for the existence of intelligent life other than us. The odds do seem to be in favor of it. Chances are they could be millions or years ahead of us. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 5:50:23 AM EDT
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The big one. Is that the one God lives on?
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Posted: 12/30/2011 6:11:14 AM EDT
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From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
I've seen this in the past, great picture. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 6:24:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/30/2011 6:26:36 AM EDT
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I beleive you meant to title the thread: Comparison chart of the largest planets we know of. Maybe planets were involved to give a reference to the size of the stars, since people know planets are "big", instead of just the big stars themselves (the main point of the pictures) which without, would just be different size circles with no scale. Frame of reference, how does it work? You have no frame of reference, Donny. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 6:38:05 AM EDT
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 "Ludicrous Speed! My ass! We're going to Plaid Speed!"  |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 6:40:51 AM EDT
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There is a really good Christian video out there that shows the scale of the stars very well...it's a very interesting video, and the religious part doesn't ruin it.
It also gives statistical information regarding the spontaneous formation of life in a manner that isn't boring. Uses interesting comparisons. Even if you are anti-religious, its worth an hour, I'll see if I can find the name of it if someone doesn't know it already. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 6:43:13 AM EDT
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This video is sort of fun as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I&feature=relatedThis is a very good argument for the existence of intelligent life other than us. When did we lose a planet? The clip is one short. Has Obama already devoured Pluto? |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 6:46:10 AM EDT
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Stars as big as a our solar system. What hind of gravity would it have?
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Posted: 12/30/2011 6:46:13 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/30/2011 6:53:23 AM EDT
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Stars as big as a our solar system. What hind of gravity would it have? Depends on how many magnets it's core is made up of. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 7:16:25 AM EDT
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Stars as big as a our solar system. What hind of gravity would it have? I'm fairly sure the large stars have a wide range of mass and density. For example, eventually our own star will balloon up to the size of a red giant before dying, but won't have nearly as much mass/density that many other large stars have. In short, it would vary, but damn if those largest stars aren't mind bogglingly large. Considering how large the universe is, I'm sure there are even larger ones out there which makes you wonder how much larger stars can get before weird shit happens.
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Posted: 12/30/2011 7:45:43 AM EDT
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Me too. it is hosted here also. there is another one that runs laterally intead of in / out but I can't seem to find it. Has every day objects all the way up to stars |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 7:47:26 AM EDT
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This video is sort of fun as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I&feature=relatedThis is a very good argument for the existence of intelligent life other than us. When did we lose a planet? The clip is one short. Has Obama already devoured Pluto? Pluto was demoted to a Dwarf Planet years ago. This was brought about partly by the discovery of Eris, a Kuiper belt object larger than Pluto. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060824-pluto-planet.html |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 7:54:23 AM EDT
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Pretty cool. An X ray wave is pretty small. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 7:58:15 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/30/2011 8:15:55 AM EDT
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That last frame is amazing.
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Posted: 12/30/2011 8:18:58 AM EDT
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When did we get a Math and Science forum?
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Posted: 12/30/2011 8:25:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/30/2011 8:33:25 AM EDT
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Whats the size comparison on the "Death Star"
Yeah, the one that got blown up by a bunch of fucking teenagers. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 8:43:33 AM EDT
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If that star collapsed in on itself and became a black hole, the sheer gravity it generated and the x-rays it emitted would be beyond anything we could imagine
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That last frame is amazing. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 8:45:23 AM EDT
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Whats the size comparison on the "Death Star" Yeah, the one that got blown up by a bunch of fucking teenagers. It'd fit in your living room |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 8:51:25 AM EDT
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My head exploded...
Quoted: This video is sort of fun as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I&feature=related |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 8:51:44 AM EDT
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AHHHRRRGHHH....WE'RE INSIGNIFICANT!!!! AND PUNY.....
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Posted: 12/30/2011 11:09:28 AM EDT
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VY Canis Majoris...wonder how far away it is
Seems like its in the final stages of its existence, before its violent demise 
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Posted: 12/30/2011 11:12:36 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I beleive you meant to title the thread: Comparison chart of the largest planets we know of. The planets are only shown so we have a chance of wrapping our puny human brains around that sense of scale. Everything from Wolf 359 on is a star. Holy shit. I had no idea that was actually a star. Hmmm...interesting. All this time I just thought it was the location of the Federation's stand against the Borg invasion. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 1:22:48 PM EDT
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Quoted: VY Canis Majoris...wonder how far away it is Seems like its in the final stages of its existence, before its violent demise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris 4900 light years away, with maybe 100,000 years of life left. This is my favorite bit: Placed at the center of our solar system, VY Canis Majoris's surface would extend beyond the orbit of Saturn, although some astrophysicists disagree about the star's stated radius, suggesting it is smaller: merely 600 times the radius of the Sun, which would extend past the orbit of Mars. |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 1:39:19 PM EDT
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I beleive you meant to title the thread: Comparison chart of the largest planets we know of. The planets are only shown so we have a chance of wrapping our puny human brains around that sense of scale. Everything from Wolf 359 on is a star. Holy shit. I had no idea that was actually a star.
Hmmm...interesting. All this time I just thought it was the location of the Federation's stand against the Borg invasion. It is will be! |
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Posted: 12/30/2011 2:48:48 PM EDT
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This video is sort of fun as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I&feature=relatedThis is a very good argument for the existence of intelligent life other than us. The odds do seem to be in favor of it. Chances are they could be millions or years ahead of us. chances are time is another issue.. other life might have existed and are long gone, or are gonna exist, but longer after we dont anymore... time is another distance we might never travel. |
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