Maquissar Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 How big is the Solar Sistem? How distant is the closest star, Alpha Centauri? And, in general, how large is the Universe? Not having anything better to do, and being slightly masochist, I tried to make a representation - in scale - of the Solar Sistem, and I have tried to reach Alpha Centauri as well. All of that is in the text file I have attached to this post. Scroll to the bottom and have fun... Personally, when I try to visually imagine such distances, I stop thinking about my problems... Everything seems so small in comparison ;) ... and... yes, I should get a life ;) P.S. = Scroll SLOWLY for the best effect... it'll certainly take much less than it took me to compile it, anyway! God bless copy & paste ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightlessBird Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Congratulations Maquissar on your achievement of creating this wonderful visual diagram showing us how simple and insignificant we are....kinda makes me feel bad about myself...wow thats far... good job :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UberBender Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Hehehehehe, I suspect someone's acount has been hacked. CHOWN'd! About the "graph" - Makes you wonder what purpose us little carbon lifeforms serve... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesaynothin Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Curse you Maquissar. Now my head hurts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valdir Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 I HATE EARTH *tries to reach Andromeda ~Valdir, brb for like, 10+ years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icefiddell Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Yer gd job man, you must have alot of patience. The human race really does suck.... :huh: wow, oh well. *Goes back to life in general but with the added notion of insignificance* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switch Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Wow! Um. Very interesting but... seriously... get some help. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maquissar Posted August 10, 2004 Author Share Posted August 10, 2004 Using copy and paste, it doesn't take THAT much time. All I did was to makea reproduction of the Solar System (which took me quite some time): Pluto is at 5,900,000,000 km, to make it even I copied everything from the Sun to 6,000,000,000 km, pasted it, removed all the planet names, and then it was easy... just a matter of pressing CTRL+V slightly less than 100 times. Besides, I was bored ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighid Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Very nice.Really makes one feel insignificant. I look at that stuff, and become a big fan of existentialism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander the Great Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Now why dont we all just blow up the core of the earth will a lot of nuclear weapons and such, and then we see how far we can get on the chunks of this rock. I doubt we will even get out of the suns gravity. HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHAHAAHHA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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