Now I know my place in the universe

[fan_since79]

Long Beach, California

United States

Earth

Solar System

Milky Way Galaxy

Local Group

Laniakea Supercluster

 

 

The video at this link is fascinating.

 

http://www.newsledge.com/pale-blue-dot-fit-universe-9293

Edited September 4, 2014 by fan_since79

[Tank]

there is no doubt a joke about waiting for your obamacare rep to help you, but darn if i can find it.

[RallyMo]

We are so, so, so, so lucky to be.

 

Appreciate your life for the amazing gift that it can be.

 

I'm gonna go hug my kid.

[fan_since79]

there is no doubt a joke about waiting for your obamacare rep to help you, but darn if i can find it.

 

He moved to a neighboring supercluster, so it's going to take some time to reach him.

[RallyMo]

He moved to a neighboring supercluster, so it's going to take some time to reach him.

 

At the very least, he's in Perseus-Pisces.

[tdawg87]

Neat.

 

I'm gonna go beat off.

[Ordos]

Neat.

I'm gonna go beat off.

Is it the Milky Way that got you in the mood?

[Taylor]

The universe is an unspeakably intricate and masterful work of art.

[fan_since79]

Wrap this around your head: The nearest star is 4.3 light years away. It takes light that long to get here from that star, at 186,000 miles per second.

 

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years in diameter.

 

The Laniakea Supercluster is around 500 million light years in diameter, or 5,000 times the size of the Milky Way.

 

The most distant galaxies we can observe are around 13 billion light years away. That's 13,000 million.

[tdawg87]

And yet we still found a way to get Vernon Wells on the Angels.

[fan_since79]

And yet we still found a way to get Vernon Wells on the Angels.

 

We live in a dysfunctional galaxy.

[deepdrive]

The universe is an unspeakably intricate and masterful work of art.

 

Are you sure it wasn't a f***ed up mess, that was blown all to h*ll.

 

 

Just wondering what the big bang was all about.

Edited September 6, 2014 by deepdrive

[Jason]

I'm impressed that they get "immeasurable Heaven" out of Laniakea. The narrator sounds hot.

Edited September 6, 2014 by Angels N Skins

[Taylor]

Are you sure it wasn't a f***ed up mess, that was blown all to h*ll.

 

 

Just wondering what the big bang was all about.

 

However it happened, it's a masterpiece.

[HaloMagic]

It's actually a little ugly, unstructured, and unsymmetrical by human standards. I would never build a universe with such disorder.

[Taylor]

It's actually a little ugly, unstructured, and unsymmetrical by human standards. I would never build a universe with such disorder.

 

I still think it's beautiful. 

[Ochocinco!]

Wrap this around your head: The nearest star is 4.3 light years away. It takes light that long to get here from that star, at 186,000 miles per second.

 

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years in diameter.

 

The Laniakea Supercluster is around 500 million light years in diameter, or 5,000 times the size of the Milky Way.

 

The most distant galaxies we can observe are around 13 billion light years away. That's 13,000 million.

 

 

So you're saying there's time for me to rocket to the Laniakea Supercluster and be back before the playoffs?

[Tank]

So you're saying there's time for me to rocket to the Laniakea Supercluster and be back before the playoffs?

 

yes, but not if you're using southwest airlines. their on time record is abysmal.

[fan_since79]

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackman/ast104/sense2.html

 

If the solar system were the size of a table, the Andromeda Galaxy would lie at 10 times the distance to the moon and the most distant galaxies would lie at 60 times the distance to the Sun.

 

If the sun were the size of a golf ball in New York the next nearest star would be a golf ball in Chicago.

 

If you look at a picture of the earth which is about 8cm in diameter, all of the atmosphere relevant to our life is the thickness of a thread.

 

[TobiasFunke]

It's actually a little ugly, unstructured, and unsymmetrical by human standards. I would never build a universe with such disorder.

Thanks God