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Stage 1 - Where we are at....
Antares Is The 15th Brightest Star In The Sky.
It Is More Than 1000 Light Years Away.
Stage 2 - Now Try To Wrap Your Mind Around This.....
This Is A Hubble Telescope Ultra Deep Field Infrared View Of Countless
'Entire' Galaxies Billions Of Light-Years Away.
Below Is A Close Up Of One Of The Darkest Regions Of The Photo Above.
Now How Big Are You?
And How Big Are The Things That Upset You Today?
61 comments:
doesn't matter how big or small your problems are; it's all relative.
well that's subjective.
Awesome. Makes me wanna be an astronaut.
sooo...what you're saying is....life is pointless.
It works both ways. Take a look at protons, neutrons and electrons
I once read that if the visible universe is the size of a quarter, then the entire universe might be the size of the Earth in relation.
We are so tiny.
i like chees
Wow. All my life I thought Mars was bigger then Earth. Guess I was wrong. Up yours Mars, you can't lord it over me anymore! I'm bigger then you now!
didnt know it belonged to anyone - just received it as email attachments
more than happy to credit the graphic designer
fotos are not right proportion
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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Think even smaller, Quarks.
I agree with 1st comment.
Shopped!
I'm really high :) lol
Yeah, It doesn't make sense. We still live on earth. Everything is relative. Sometimes, Size doesn't matter.
i feel so.... tiny
Imagine having a planet so big as antares. We would have never be able to use or travel all it's surface.
if humans had an antares sized planet as their own. we would would find a way to cover its surface and fill it. it's human nature to use and explore what it has as its disposal.
think of it as a computer hard drive. you only get a new one cause you've filled the space on your old one. and you will do the same on your new one.
i have a friend who have 9 80G external hard drives and he has filled 5 of them. i'm nearly convinced he trying to back up the internet for his own diabolical uses.
chris.
oh no, i'm nothing...... i'm smaller than a speck of dust floating around the universe.
If the Earth was as big as Antares, we would probably still only occupy a minute fraction of its surface. It would take countless millennia to colonize all of it, that is if we bothered. We would of course need a sun to orbit that was strong enough to cope with the watt/m2 that it needs to send us for us to flourish.
That would be one big mutha of a sun.
don't ask why, just figure it out yourself
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We don't even have a sense of size. The entire universe may be as small as a quark of something entirely bigger. Truth is, the human race doesn't know what the universe actually is, nor does it know what the smallest parts of the universe are either.
I think we as humans are made up of galaxies so small they are invisible and will never be discovered. These galaxies make us a universe just as we make up the universe we know. This makes us Gods of our own universe. MB
Antares is a star, not a planet, and if humans lived on it, we wouldn't live on it, we'd be dead. Stars are hot. Even a planet that size would kill us due to it's gravity. Learn some science, you muppets.
So... Dr. Seuss was right... We're all just specks on a speck.
you know i kind of like thinking my life is important so i don't think i'm meaningless and um... kill myself. but i guess if i wasn't here and you guys weren't here then the universe wouldn't be perfectly in sync and nothing would be like how it is and blah blah blah
What gives you the authority to say its all relative? To say all things are relative is not a relative statement...lol
Saying its all relative is not a relative statement.
the last picture is stunning
As the Psalmist said " When I consider the Heavens ...who am I Lord that you would Love me" or something cclose to that
Look how big uranus is!
.... heee heee heee.... I will one day bend ALL of it to my will, all that, shall be my domain... muha ha ha ha haaaa...
wait... it was supposed to humble me?
As easy as it is to see how ridiculously small we are, it's still so hard to believe that there's something in existence that is THAT big.
We're still learning so much about the Earth, and us. If we make it past our own stupidity, and off this planet, we've got a Hell of a job to do if we want to learn anything about anything.
well, we'll never actually get a grasp of the universe's size so how bout lets all admire the cool pictures and forget about all the ret
Why would should anyone be humbled by this? What good is size without consciousness to experience being big or to compare these differences? I give the universe and everything within it meaning by contemplating it. Without me (okay us) nothing means anything since the very concept of meaning is a type of thought and we do the thinking. Should we ever disappear the one known light of thought in all of existance will be gone. That's far more impressive an illumintation than Antares.
what if.. our universe is only part of a really HUGE HUGE planet like trillions of trillions of light years big. Our oceans on this planet could be related to the blackness in our universe in a very loose way. and like some of you said about.. how could we colonize antares, it would take millenia, well you were right in a different kind of way. I think the universe if just a massive planet. and it WILL/COULD take trillions upon trillions of years to colonize, and aliens and UFO's are just one step ahead. They use their spaceships like our airplans. to travel from one surface of the planet to the other. thats only if you consider the universe as a planet. Anyone into this idea? i am...
Mat
Depends where you're stood, no one will ever see that star as big as they see me.
In the immortal words of Ali G, 'Is it bigger than a salt?'
I vote we conquer Antares. Half the circumference of Antares is greater than the diameter of the Milky Way. Whoever said we would colonize a planet that size in just a few years failed 3rd grade algebra. I'm also voting for Bush '08.
Size ain't everything. If we live enough, we will get there, I believe. Get to visit all those far-away galaxies and all that, I mean.
"Without me (okay us) nothing means anything since the very concept of meaning is a type of thought and we do the thinking. Should we ever disappear the one known light of thought in all of existance will be gone."
Why, after you look at that, would you assume that Earth is the only planet with living beings such as ourselves?
PS my life looks so POINTLESS right now haha. And we think we are all so important. Who cares.
Wow, the gravity on Antares must be... damn. That's mind blowing.
It's rather cool though. Just think of all that space(!) left to explore. Life will go on long after we've all left this plane of reality - that's what makes me feel small compared to the rest of it all.
However, as has been said, in our own worlds of life and experience, it starts with each individual. I am at the centre of my world, but I am proud to be part of something this huge - or more likely infinite.
Antares is a star. Stop sleeping during science class.
nice collection. It is great
"Makes you feel sort of insignificant really doesn't it?"
"Can we have your liver then?"
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Where does the universe end and what's on the other side of that? Can anyone ever grasp the size of the universe? After all, even if we went to the edge of the universe there would have to be something on the other side, right?
I believe that there are many elements and rules of nature that we haven't found or conceived of. I also believe that if the human race does not find a way to colonize space our race is doomed.
This is a good show of size perspective, and I enjoy it. For those who are mocking the "life on Antares post", you are not very bright, and likely have no lives. The original post said "imagine having a planet as big as Antares", so it would not be a star. And for those who think the gravity would crush us, there are two responses: 1) either life would have already evolved to compensate for such gravity, or 2)the planet could have such a low density that the gravity would be much lower than Earth's. So instead of mocking others, you should have been paying attention in science class. As to the colonization of such a planet, it is easily conceivable that life would evolve in the same proportionate manner as they have on Earth, and therefore the same percentage would be populated, even if there would be little transit between different areas of the planet. And yes people, life is pointless, so get over it and move on with your life.
thing is...a planet would never exist that is as large as antares...Jupiter is about as big as a planet can get without collapsing in on itself because of its own gravity and becoming a small star
Actually I can grasp the size of the Universe, its around 156 billion light years in width and around 13.5 billion years old. And ever expanding Don't forget that. My real interest is what was before the Big Bang. Many people believe that at the big bang matter filled an empty space. Truth is that the Theory of the Big Bang states that empty space along with all the matter that is currently in it was created at the time of the big bang. So if empty space was created with the big bang, what was here in place of the empty space?
First things first, the anon with the comment two above me has already said what I was going to say first. I thank you, seriously. Now onto the comment below his, the other anon.
May i ask a simple question, did you read your comment before you sent it, at all? What is the fastest speed possible? Light right! Now onto some simple mathematics. If the universe is 13.5 billion years old, but manages to be 156 billion light years wide. Does that not mean the universe is expanding at just under 6 times the speed of light. Oh and the fact that our solar system at 5 billion years old is considered to be very young/recent (relative to the universe) doesn’t really matter at all. What interest me is the people who send out pointless comments asking questions, like; "ah what was there before the big bang?". As if suddenly in an epiphany some guy is going to comment back and answer it all for them. Also the part about our life having meaning really annoys me too, no your life has no higher meaning so make a meaning for yourself and stop trying to shove it off on some other guy (god). If you make your own meaning then you are less likely to be forgotten in later years. Oh and hell no there is no god (excuse the pun) or higher power not that anyone said it, but I am anticipating by the way the comments are going it is only a matter of time.
Oh and thanks for the graphic rep, they are very interesting. But one applicable question about the situation, How can they measure the dia of a distant planets/stars?
They would need to know the telescopic diameter and the distance the planet is from the telescopic lens surely. (can achieve this with a laser i know but as we have already pointed out this would take many many years, for the laser alone to get there)
Do they use red and blue shift to measure the distance it has moved in a given time period (months or years) and then find the decrease or increase in the planet's telescopic diameter from the start of that period to the end?? I have always wondered that?
Perhaps it is literally Heaven, and if our lives produce enough good our 'Soul' of energy is released to roam the stars forever. Which is how long it would take to see it all...
Wow.. size seems so relative, but when you put it in a scale like this, it really starts to make your head hurt. I feel so tiny now.. Not insignificant or anything, just tiny..
Yes all that is fine. We are tiny. But hey !!what the heck!! .. We can APPRECIATE it. We are alive and have brains and wits to understand things around us. The stars are dead matter anyway. SO I consider living beings (even a tiny bacteria ) supreme to any non living stuff.
what if redshift data is wrong?!?!?!
hmmmmm...all eggs in one basket..we need more baskets
Size like everything else is relative to the observer.
We can never hope to even dominate our own solar system if we cannot even control our own planet. until we live in peace with one another, perhaps under one government or have governments that are in accord with each other peacefully we can only hope to cause countless wars over space. Picture this. The USA goes to the moon and sets up shop, a manned station say, and finds that there is invaluable metals in the core we can mine and use. Than say russia wants to also put a a station up there and mine the resources. do you think for a second that will be allowed, duty free at that? I dont think so, we as a race are to greedy and self serving at this point to do anything construcive with even our own moon let alone the our solar system. It makes me sad :(, if we were to band together as a race the things we could do are almost limitless. Of course its to idealalistic of me to hope for such a turn of events on our planet. It's to bad though.....
It would take millions of years for us to even venture out of our own Milky Way and billions more just to reach the other galaxy and trillions more just to reach the next cluster of galaxies and zallions of years to get to the edge!
It may not take millions of years to travel if we use C-energy....:)
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