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From big to small - A Tuesday trip on perspective (Original Post) packman Jan 2017 OP
oh my glob cyclonefence Jan 2017 #1
"Oh my glob." I like that!! n/t BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2017 #5
K&R! Wow! Rhiannon12866 Jan 2017 #2
Aah, they did go the other direction too Brother Buzz Jan 2017 #3
I am often overwhelmed when I think of how very, very, a small speck our planet and solar system Fla Dem Jan 2017 #4
I'm about 8 billion kilometers away True Dough Jan 2017 #6
I am watching this while an erection pill ad plays in my earphones rurallib Jan 2017 #7
That's pretty cool. Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 #8
Can you provide some background on where it came from? 66 dmhlt Feb 2017 #9

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
1. oh my glob
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 02:58 PM
Jan 2017

Every kid who has addressed an envelope to street, city, state, country, continent, hemisphere, planet, solar system and galaxy should look at this wondrous video.

Thank you for posting this. I'm sitting here literally going "oh...oh..oh".

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
3. Aah, they did go the other direction too
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 03:46 PM
Jan 2017

I'm convinced if you go far enough in both directions, they ultimately become the same. Just a pet theory I'm working on.

Fla Dem

(23,691 posts)
4. I am often overwhelmed when I think of how very, very, a small speck our planet and solar system
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 03:56 PM
Jan 2017

are compared to the immense size of the known universe. And that the stars we see shining in the sky at night are millions of light years away from us and the light we see from Polaris (the North Star)started it's journey toward earth 433 light years ago.

True Dough

(17,311 posts)
6. I'm about 8 billion kilometers away
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 07:46 PM
Jan 2017

Could you heat up dinner for me?




This is very enlightening. Good thing humans only have the ability to wreck our planet and not the rest of the galaxy. Well, not the black holes and stuff. That would wreck us!

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