Posted on 03/30/2007 12:42:15 PM PDT by Doomonyou
Ok, so how big is our planet Earth? I mean, compare to other planets… In the following pictures, you’ll start to appreciate how small earth is!!!
Very Cool!
Seems like there is a lot of "Cool" going around this thread!
bump and ping
Naturally to be accompanied by Carl Sagan's "Reflections on a Mote of Dust"- very humbling if you ask me. "We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. "
Regardless of what you think of Sagan, food for thought.
It's a small world after all.
For more feelings of total insignificance, check out gamma ray bursters and supernovae.
Oh, and remember, these are all just stars, supernovae, black holes, and gamma ray bursters in our tiny, insignificant galaxy. There are billions of other galaxies out there.
Anyone remember the Douglas Adams "Total Perspective Vortex"?
We all need to eat a little humble pie now and again.
Indeed.
Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse!
You should have listened to RCH last night on Coast.
Of course he hypothesized it first, some 15 years ago, like all other recent astronomical discoveries and confirmations.
Half listening as I fell asleep, I think he said it's a hyperdimensional portal that energy seeps through so that planets such as Saturn and Jupiter can give off more energy than they receive from the Sun.
Just when I started to enjoy RCH again, he goes off his meds.
They're Pensylvania Dutch, ta sure ya betcha.
YA sure ya betcha.
"And very, very bad." (said the huntchback to Angel Eyes in "A fistfull of Dollars."
(So it's off topic.)
Make sure you get all the extra objects to put in play as well. The planetoids and plutino objects go WAY out into the Oort cloud.
I love it... 
when you talk dirty!
Verum? Kate? Hey! Hey? You two... 
get a room!
Looking at all those photos makes me recall the Gipper saying, "We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!"
Took me a couple weeks to put that mother together.
it is a Romulan Ale Martini*
and some fresh fish guts for my penguins. 1 1/2 oz 100 Proof white Tequila
1 oz Blue Curacao
6 drops Tabasco sauce
1 grain salt
Shake or stir in ice, then pour into a chilled martini glass...
BTW it is still raining down her 56 miles south of Dallas.
Keep dry,
Semper Fi, Mac!
That's no table -- it's a tiny part of the palm of God's hand... '-)
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