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Title: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
Post by: ScaryTooth on Monday, May 31, 2010, 08:28:22 AM: Bam, I always like stuff like this. (http://i.imgur.com/frLHu.jpg)
Title: Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
Post by: Quemaqua on Monday, May 31, 2010, 08:54:51 AM: Yeah, I love that picture. An oldie but a goodie.
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Post by: Pugnate on Monday, May 31, 2010, 09:17:40 AM: Hadn't seen that before, and yes that is the most awesome thing ever. Thanks for posting that.
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Post by: Cobra951 on Monday, May 31, 2010, 10:07:25 AM: Deja vu. (http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pTHT56QGHqCmS6v81o4Px4-_sVZ2viWS9DyAs1ZmSZlnk2FU7xqA_1rV3jyF6OdBfMUIDqGIUlRI7yY0E5oOe0g/Relative%20sizes%20of%20planets%20and%20stars.gif) That's what I remember from a while back, and I'm not sure if it's the chicken or the egg.
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Post by: gpw11 on Monday, May 31, 2010, 09:57:06 PM: Why are there two "largest known stars"?
Title: Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
Post by: Ghandi on Monday, May 31, 2010, 10:00:07 PM: Quote from: gpw11 on Monday, May 31, 2010, 09:57:06 PM
Why are there two "largest known stars"?

Quantum states.

I would elaborate but I imagine Wind&Confusion is jacking of right now at the prospect of explaining this.
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Post by: gpw11 on Monday, May 31, 2010, 10:33:15 PM: AHAHAHAHA
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Post by: TheOtherBelmont on Monday, May 31, 2010, 10:57:46 PM: I love that picture as well. I have a poster of the Hubble Deep Field picture shown on the bottom of that picture.
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Post by: ScaryTooth on Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 01:36:44 PM: http://unixronin.livejournal.com/763082.html (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/763082.html)

Betelgeuse might go supernova...

Well, if true, it might have went supernova around 600 years ago...we are just now seeing it.

Space is fuckin cool.
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Post by: ScaryTooth on Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 07:41:46 PM: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/01/is-betelgeuse-about-to-blow/ (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/01/is-betelgeuse-about-to-blow/)

Okay, it might not go. Seems to be a rumor. Oh well. Space is still cool.
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Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 11:58:58 PM: It sure is. Wish we could be born again next century. :P
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Post by: ScaryTooth on Monday, June 21, 2010, 04:31:08 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9tDO3HK20Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9tDO3HK20Q)

I thought this was really cool. It's Carl Sagan reading from his book "Pale Blue Dot".
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Post by: TheOtherBelmont on Monday, June 21, 2010, 11:48:06 PM: Quote from: ScaryTooth on Monday, June 21, 2010, 04:31:08 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9tDO3HK20Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9tDO3HK20Q)

I thought this was really cool. It's Carl Sagan reading from his book "Pale Blue Dot".

Yeah, that's a great book (and audiobook too!). Probably have read through it twice now.