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Stars & Planets In Scale - Pretty Cool!

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:29 am
by BlueCrush

Re: Stars & Planets In Scale - Pretty Cool! (BlueCrush)

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:49 am
by scherry2
wow makes you feel pretty small and insignificant.

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:51 am
by CAN-AWD-VIBE
and we are the only ones right?

Re: Stars & Planets In Scale - Pretty Cool! (BlueCrush)

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:54 pm
by GMJAP
Wow! I didn't know stars could be so much bigger than the sun!

Re: (CAN-AWD-VIBE)

Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:43 am
by Vibe_dude
Quote, originally posted by CAN-AWD-VIBE »and we are the only ones right? As in the movie contact"if we are the only ones.....seems like alot of wasted space.".lol

Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:48 am
by vibebob
the video scale doesn't do the real scale justice. Betelguese is a red giant, and if it were in place of the sun its size is larger than the orbit of the earth and almost to the orbit of mars.the sun, in about 4 billion years, will also expand to be the size of the orbit of the earth.

Re: Stars & Planets In Scale - Pretty Cool! (scherry2)

Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:15 am
by Atomic
Quote, originally posted by scherry2 »wow makes you feel pretty small and insignificant. So what would be the scale of the average North American human male related say, Betelgeuse?