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Monday, August 4, 2014 9:59:43 PM

"It’s easy to disregard nothingness because there’s no thought available to encapsulate it. There’s no metaphor that fits because, by definition, once the nothingness becomes tangible, it ceases to exist."

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html 

An interesting take on the distances between the planets in our solar system. Takes a lot of scrolling to the right.

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jackconrad
Monday, August 4, 2014 11:22:59 PM
Couldn't get any thing from the link..
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 12:09:10 AM
Hmmm... copied and pasted and it worked for me.

jackconrad
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 12:14:33 AM
Worked the 2nd time.. Wow it really is a great way to explain the distances.. Gotta do that Mars Movie flight some eon..
jetblasted
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 1:04:05 AM
Equally interesting that voyager which took off 37 years ago, just left the solar system this year . . .

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 1:15:29 AM
I also read that Voyager 1 is traveling at about 35,000 mph. And at the speed, it will take it about another 78,000 years to get to the next closest star, Proxima Centauri.

It is a mind bogglin' big universe...

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jetblasted
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 1:23:12 AM
Yep . . .

Think about this, the star Betelgeuse in the Constellation Orion, is so big, that if it sat where I sun does, the star it's self would extend out past the orbit of the planet Jupiter . . .

http://www.yalescientific.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/features-Betelgeuse-1.jpg 

http://walkworthy.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/46-betelgeuse-vs-sun.jpg 

Hard to see on that last link, but the tiny dot is our sun, in comparison to Betelgeuse . . .

DrMaddVibe
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 9:55:30 AM
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Say my name three times...go ahead!

Yep . . .

Think about this, the star Betelgeuse in the Constellation Orion, is so big, that if it sat where I sun does, the star it's self would extend out past the orbit of the planet Jupiter . . .

http://www.yalescientific.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/features-Betelgeuse-1.jpg 

http://walkworthy.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/46-betelgeuse-vs-sun.jpg 

Hard to see on that last link, but the tiny dot is our sun, in comparison to Betelgeuse . . .

jetblasted wrote:

gryphonms
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 10:17:26 AM
The concept that fascinates me is there is nothing past the boundary of the universe. Yet the universe is expanding into that nothing.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 10:55:42 AM
[Asked by a reporter if this is the end of Spinal Tap]

David St. Hubbins: Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you.

jetblasted
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 3:28:50 PM

The concept that fascinates me is there is nothing past the boundary of the universe. Yet the universe is expanding into that nothing.

gryphonms wrote:

Hard to wrap your mind around that . . . Blew my mind as a kid, and still does . . .