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got this in an email. it's pretty coolTHIS is really fascinating - it's rather dazzling to see it presented this way.Beyond our sun ... It's a big universe.Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky.It is more than 1000 light years away. Now how big are you? -------------- ---------------------------------------------------- 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.Humbling, isn't it?Now How Big Are You? And how big are the things that upset you today?

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along those lines...saw this quote yesterday and had a bit of a laugh:"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." - George Carlin

lol that's a good one. george carlin is a fool

aw come on man, carlin tells it like it is. he rocks.

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy:Quote » The Total Perspective Votex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses. To explain--since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation--every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition, and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake. The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. Trin Tragula--for that was his name--was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake. "Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day. And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex--just to show her. And into one end, he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other, he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it. To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain, but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

You need to watch the movie Indescribable. It's all about the scale of life and the universe.

It does make you think about it

Neptune is really Neptune color! Who knew? LOL

that is really good. another was Carl Sagan's cosmic calendar. It shows just how 'small' we are in the time line of thingsin it the big bang occurs the first second after midnight on january 1st.the origin of our Milky Way Galaxy begins on May 1stthe origin of our solar system begin on September 9ththe Earth on September 14thprimitive life forms (bacteria and blue-green algae) October 9thfirst dinosaurs on December 24ththe rest occurs late on December 31stfirst humans 10:30 pmAboriginies in Australia 11:58 pm Bronze age 11:59pm 53 secondsIron age 11:59pm 54 secondsMayans 11:59 58pm secondsRenaissance in Europe 11:59pm 59 secondsinformation age first second of new year

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy:thanks for reminding me of that!now i think i have to go re-read the books...you got me in the mood!