And some people think we're all alone

[BinCo]

Here is a good video that put's our tiny little planet and lives into a bigger perspective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ

It's a wonder that some people still cling to the "we are created in God's image and are alone in the universe" mantra.

Makes me think of Monty Python

[BinCo]

Thinking of Monty Python. Let's have a little more humor in this world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk&feature=related

[Journeyman]

Here is a good video that put's our tiny little planet and lives into a bigger perspective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ

It's a wonder that some people still cling to the "we are created in God's image and are alone in the universe" mantra.


Thanks for posting, Bin -- very thought-provoking!

[maliakei]

Fascinating, educational video about our vast, indefinite universe!

Here are a series of illustrations which put the planets & stars into perspective:

Click on each photo to see how small our planet is compared to these stars.

[bbime]

What an awesome illustation of the size of our planet to the sun,planet,stars!
Amazing!shocked Where did you find the photos comparisons? I love to learn about astronomy.

[Fitz1980]

I always liked that line from Apollo 13, when the news men are trying to explain the distances and the exacting coordinates that the astronauts have to hit in on the way back from the moon. The guy pulls out a standard sized baseball & basketball and says


"if this baseball represents the Moon and this basketball represents the Earth and you placed them 17 feet away the astronauts would have to hit a target no wider than this sheet of paper in order to not either burn up on reentry or skip out of the atmosphere."

In most models of the solar system the moons are right next to the planets and the planets are near by each other. In reality you're talking about sizes and distances that humans can't even comprehend. We think it's a long journey to drive from Atlanta to Miami or to fly to France from New York. But than we think that the moon is right there, or Mars is only the next planet over, talking about distances that we can't even comprehend.

[Baron Lake]

The relative scale of Earth/basketball and Moon/baseball aside if you assume a basketball
is about 1 foot in diameter and the distance to the Moon is about 240,000 miles then shouldn't the basketball and baseball be about 60 feet apart? Plus, the "paper" is a
moving target ya can't even aim at, gotta figure out where it WILL be. Is there an astronomer in the house?


b.l.

[nimrod]

Makes me wonder is those deep space photos are actually photos of our own galaxy. Light can be bent and warped by gravity can we look out far enough to be able to see ourselves because of all those warps and bends? I believe it was Einstien that theroised that if you set out into space in a strait line, barring any mishaps like hitting a star or another planet you would eventually end up where you started because of the pull of gravatational forces.