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ShockValue

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TheBluesader said:
ShockValue said:
TheBluesader said:
ShockValue said:
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg

I never really thought about how small we were in the universe,seeing this really suprised me. I demand we get a new sun.

P.S. The picture is really big. Top to Bottom people.
You can get a new sun, but I'm keeping mine. We have a lot in common, and I'm finally comfortable with all its quirks.

Its gas is terrible, though.

[CYMBAL CRASH!]
Well mine will be much better, and it'll have a hat!
If it has a hat, you should get it a cape, too. That will look really epic blowing behind it in the solar wind.
Don't forget some badass looking sunglasses. Perhaps the Raisin Bran sun?
 

Bored Tomatoe

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We are so insignificant... so small, adrift in a sea of blackness, with no beginning or end... Forever floating in no direction, with no purpose for ever and ever...

Who wants waffles?
 

ShockValue

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Bored Tomatoe said:
We are so insignificant... so small, adrift in a sea of blackness, with no beginning or end... Forever floating in no direction, with no purpose for ever and ever...

Who wants waffles?
Waffles are the cure for when your feeling insignificant. So yes I want waffles.
 

Escapefromwhatever

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Ah yes, this is why people look so silly when they get egotistical. Even if they think they'll be remembered 'till the end of time, they look like the speck of a speck in a speck of a speck on a projector.

And yes, we may be a mere projection according to New Scientist:

http://www.astroengine.com/?p=3189
So we could just be a self-aware recording? Kick-ass! Also, that blue moon (Rigel) looks fun- let's move there =P.
 

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This makes three things come to mind.

Where is my hyberdrive?

Long distance call charges are going to be a *****.

And of course space marines.
 

Deleric

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Let me quote you something from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

"Space, is big. Really, really big. You just wont believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
 

Lonan

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I don't really care about all that crap, earth is still the best part of the universe, and I'm the best part of the world. I still think there isn't any life out there, and if there is, it's no consequence because it's much to far away to get too. Whoever said that it doesn't matter if the world is destroyed can eat what exits my ass. This is the world we inhabit, this is the world I inhabit, so it's the best fucking one there is. In fact, just to make sure there's no room for irrelavant thoughts about things that are bigger then we are, let's be perfectly clear: we are the only life in the universe. You can throw your probabilities at me all you like, but it doesn't change the the fact that we DO NOT have the right to destroy others from our climate controlled houses. Earth's life is all that matters. When global warming is no longer an issue, when overpopulation is no longer an issue, when us Westerners get our collective heads out of our asses in concern to our own importance relative to other life (including humans), that's when we start thinking about what's our there, when we've made damn sure that what's down here is the best part of the universe. And in fact, even when that day comes, screw teh rest of the universe, I'm fine with earth thank you very much. Even if global warming was no longer an issue I would still retire where I was born, not some exotic equatorial beach place we Westerners have saved from abandonment, except for those who went down with the ship. Fuck everything else, I'm the most important part, and anyone else who's with me. The universe can have as many atoms and molecules as it wants, but I'm gonna go for quality over quantity. In other words, VY Canis Majoris can suck my cock until I douse it's fires with my cum. I could kick it's ass at things that matter anyway, like Zero Hour, and Dawn of War. I know what's right, I don't need some tool telling me that this world is insignificant. This world is the ONLY thing of significance. Everything else pales in comparison to our might. Mother nuckers.
 

Fightgarr

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I'm glad I'm part of the universe. It is a wonderful place. So many things of so many sizes.
Its like magic. Existence magic.
 

ShockValue

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UsefulPlayer 1 said:
This makes three things come to mind.

Where is my hyberdrive?

Long distance call charges are going to be a *****.

And of course space marines.
We definitely need Space marines, who else will initiate the orbital bombardments?
 

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Bored Tomatoe said:
We are so insignificant... so small, adrift in a sea of blackness, with no beginning or end... Forever floating in no direction, with no purpose for ever and ever...

Who wants waffles?
me!
 

Frank_Sinatra_

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It's not all that big. What you guys haven't been through the StarGate yet?
Geeze where have you been, I mean the Pegasus Galaxy was awesome!

On Topic: I love looking at space, one of my goals in life is to go to Africa just so I can look up into the night sky.
A dude I knew said that Africa is one of the best places to admire space with the naked eye.
 

SharPhoe

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I've seen that set of pictures before in a GIF slideshow. Actually, hold on, let me find it...

EDIT: Ah, here you go.
 

O maestre

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Lonan said:
I don't really care about all that crap, earth is still the best part of the universe, and I'm the best part of the world. I still think there isn't any life out there, and if there is, it's no consequence because it's much to far away to get too. Whoever said that it doesn't matter if the world is destroyed can eat what exits my ass. This is the world we inhabit, this is the world I inhabit, so it's the best fucking one there is. In fact, just to make sure there's no room for irrelavant thoughts about things that are bigger then we are, let's be perfectly clear: we are the only life in the universe. You can throw your probabilities at me all you like, but it doesn't change the the fact that we DO NOT have the right to destroy others from our climate controlled houses. Earth's life is all that matters. When global warming is no longer an issue, when overpopulation is no longer an issue, when us Westerners get our collective heads out of our asses in concern to our own importance relative to other life (including humans), that's when we start thinking about what's our there, when we've made damn sure that what's down here is the best part of the universe. And in fact, even when that day comes, screw teh rest of the universe, I'm fine with earth thank you very much. Even if global warming was no longer an issue I would still retire where I was born, not some exotic equatorial beach place we Westerners have saved from abandonment, except for those who went down with the ship. Fuck everything else, I'm the most important part, and anyone else who's with me. The universe can have as many atoms and molecules as it wants, but I'm gonna go for quality over quantity. In other words, VY Canis Majoris can suck my cock until I douse it's fires with my cum. I could kick it's ass at things that matter anyway, like Zero Hour, and Dawn of War. I know what's right, I don't need some tool telling me that this world is insignificant. This world is the ONLY thing of significance. Everything else pales in comparison to our might. Mother Fuckers.
ah yes the first stage of shock and denial

what was the point of your post? justifying your existence or just an attempt to insult people in a vulgar manner(troll) if so i am sorry i fed you and please ignore my post
 

Motti

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You know what? I am an insignificant speck made up of various random elements livin on an insignificant little rock. I am only alive by the most astronomical (literally) of coincidences . . . and it is awesome to contemplate.
 

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Motti said:
You know what? I am an insignificant speck made up of various random elements livin on an insignificant little rock. I am only alive by the most astronomical (literally) of coincidences . . . and it is awesome to contemplate.
Orly?
 

Eclectic Dreck

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xmetatr0nx said:
New sun? what like bigger? You do realize that the more massive a star is the shorter its life span right? And yes these pics are fascinating, puts things into perspective. We are just insignificant specks trying to make as much noise as possible.

EDIT: there is also that video on youtube about the the size of things in our universe
I am reminded of the immortal words of Homer:"I am a lonely insignificant man on a has-been planet orbited by a cold, indifferent sun!"