What do you take away from this?
 

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o...0064326067.gif

Same idea, but animated
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...2831&hl=en

Powers of ten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKe3H...ed&search=

Re: What do you take away from this?
 

Nothing, really. Some of those stars had cool colors.

Re: What do you take away from this?
 

I'm hoping to personally visit some of these eventually -- maybe not for while, but eventually.

Re: What do you take away from this?
 

Stars are big.

Re: What do you take away from this?
 

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VY Canis Majoris This star is likely to undergo a hypernova stage by 3200. The distance from Earth to VY CMa is about 1.5 kiloparsecs (or 5,000 light-years).

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Wait, what? time to start running...

Re: What do you take away from this?
 

We are tiny.

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It actually lost allot of it's impact as it went on, about half way through I was at my most receptive to revelation.

Re: What do you take away from this?
 

Kinda what I had in mind with my "what about everything else?" post. It seems inconceivable to me that we are some main character in the universe.

That power of 10 clip was fantastic! Wish I understood German.

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Kinda what I had in mind with my "what about everything else?" post. It seems inconceivable to me that we are some main character in the universe.

That power of 10 clip was fantastic! Wish I understood German.

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I couldn't find the original English version on youtube, prob because of copyright issues.

Here is the website: http://www.powersof10.com/ .

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Nothing, really. Some of those stars had cool colors.

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I like turtles.