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Note that the Sun is about 110 times larger in diameter than Earth.
We are in the midst of lots of nothing... A lot of it.
It took about 35 years for our ONLY craft to ever leave the solar system.
Voyager missions are still sending signals back. Takes 17 hours for a radio signal to travel the distance.

Found an interesting description from some egghead:
If our Sun was the size of a dust mote (much smaller than a grain of sand), then our planetary solar system (not including the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud) would be about the diameter of a coffee saucer. The next nearest planetary star system, Proxima Centauri, would be another coffee saucer placed about a city block away. That gives you an approximate idea of how far apart star systems are from one another in our galaxy.
 Now, if you placed 100 Billion coffee saucers on a flat plane, each more or less a city block apart from its neighbors, the collective of coffee saucers would span the entire surface area of the North American continent (and we’re not even talking about depth, just surface area). Thus, North America would represent the apparent disc of the Milky Way galaxy.
 So, if our Sun was the size of a dust mote, and the Milky Way galaxy was proportionately the size of North America, then the next nearest galaxy (Andromeda) would be about half the distance to the Moon away from us.
You could go on from there, trying to calculate the proportionate size of galactic clusters, superclusters and filiments, but then you’re right back on a cosmic scale.
 Even in microcosm, the universe is vast beyond human comprehension.

 
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That's why it's pretty difficult to believe aliens sent an armada to "conquer" us.
Also, people's varying views on Earthlings are interesting:
We are either so insignificant nothing we do matters.
-or-
We are so special we need to stop staying on the verge of suicide.

I flip back and forth on the Give-A-**** Gauge...  

Weird people.

DeezerShoove » 31 Jul 2023, 9:20 am » wrote: ↑

31 Jul 2023, 9:20 am

Weird people.

Who's weird?
 

DeezerShoove » 13 Jul 2023, 7:51 am » wrote: ↑

13 Jul 2023, 7:51 am

Note that the Sun is about 110 times larger in diameter than Earth.
We are in the midst of lots of nothing... A lot of it.
It took about 35 years for our ONLY craft to ever leave the solar system.
Voyager missions are still sending signals back. Takes 17 hours for a radio signal to travel the distance.

Found an interesting description from some egghead:
If our Sun was the size of a dust mote (much smaller than a grain of sand), then our planetary solar system (not including the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud) would be about the diameter of a coffee saucer. The next nearest planetary star system, Proxima Centauri, would be another coffee saucer placed about a city block away. That gives you an approximate idea of how far apart star systems are from one another in our galaxy.
 Now, if you placed 100 Billion coffee saucers on a flat plane, each more or less a city block apart from its neighbors, the collective of coffee saucers would span the entire surface area of the North American continent (and we’re not even talking about depth, just surface area). Thus, North America would represent the apparent disc of the Milky Way galaxy.
 So, if our Sun was the size of a dust mote, and the Milky Way galaxy was proportionately the size of North America, then the next nearest galaxy (Andromeda) would be about half the distance to the Moon away from us.
You could go on from there, trying to calculate the proportionate size of galactic clusters, superclusters and filiments, but then you’re right back on a cosmic scale.
 Even in microcosm, the universe is vast beyond human comprehension.

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That's why it's pretty difficult to believe aliens sent an armada to "conquer" us.
Also, people's varying views on Earthlings are interesting:
We are either so insignificant nothing we do matters.
-or-
We are so special we need to stop staying on the verge of suicide.

I flip back and forth on the Give-A-**** Gauge...

Cool.