Just in case you didn't already feel insignificant!

[someotherguy]

Well if you ever want to feel insignificant, this will blow your mind: http://htwins.net/scale2/

when i zoomed all the way out it had a picture of me

[ishootblanks]

This made me wonder something though... what happens when 2 black holes are next to one another? Does one consume the other? Does it grow? Do both just sit there, just nullifying the effect of the other? Do they orbit around eachother?

As for the black holes existing before Big Bang, not sure, we've been wrong on many things, rather get some definitive proof first.

they form a rock band that never takes off until one of the holes dies of a drug overdose..

[Hyve]

Well thank god I wont be alive for most of this "bad stuff"

Medical Science is expanding at an incredible rate. Replacement Organs that are printable from your own DNA should be available within the next 20 - 30 years, as we've seen Blood Cells already made. The idea of replacing anything that breaks essentailly leads to a form of immortality, despite that the average human would kill themselves after that length of life...

The point is... You never know!

[ishootblanks]

Well if you ever want to feel insignificant, this will blow your mind: http://htwins.net/scale2/

they had a picture of a giant sequoia labeled as a redwood! therefore this argument is invalid! (quick! who am I?)

[Lucifer Morningstar]

Carl Sagan said it best, I think:

Makes you think how small we are, and if there are already smaller creatures we cannot yet see, or even if we are the smaller creatures to bigger giants in the universe. The options are endless, and the knowledge is so ... little.

[Harry Botter]

http://htwins.net/scale2

Look at the whole thing and I would bet that you never thought of a grain if salt so big before.

[DeltrusDisc]

Well if you ever want to feel insignificant, this will blow your mind: http://htwins.net/scale2/

Wait.... The Great Attractor? /gulps

I've not heard of that yet. >_>

For anyone wondering... we are 250 million light years from it and....

"The Great Attractor is pulling thousands of galaxies, including the Milky Way, towards itself. Its mass is tens of thousands of times greater than the Milky Way's."

=S

[Spectral]

I didn't feel insignificant, I don't feel insignificant, and no facts about the size of universe will change that feeling. There's quite literally nothing that could be more significant to me than myself.

That said, these sorts of things are amazing.

[Wikiy]

If you want to get as close as possible to feeling insignificant, do EXACTLY as i say: open the first link, mute it, set it to HD, let it run to 0:05 and pause it. Open the second video and immidiately pause it and set it to HD. Then start the first video again, start the second one, and go back to the first video and fullscreen it. The first video is the...well, video and the 2nd is audio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrAm9Eiqcw

[DeltrusDisc]

If you want to get as close as possible to feeling insignificant, do EXACTLY as i say: open the first link, mute it, set it to HD, let it run to 0:05 and pause it. Open the second video and immidiately pause it and set it to HD. Then start the first video again, start the second one, and go back to the first video and fullscreen it. The first video is the...well, video and the 2nd is audio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrAm9Eiqcw

That was pretty awesome!!!! Thanks for the share!

[Palmatum]

I dunno where I heard this, but apparently our sun only has 6~ billion years of life left, at which point it will expand into a giant and consume all the planets along with it.

No. It will expand, yes, but it won't reach Earth. It will be close, but it won't reach us, let alone all the planets.

[ishootblanks]

If you want to get as close as possible to feeling insignificant, do EXACTLY as i say: open the first link, mute it, set it to HD, let it run to 0:05 and pause it. Open the second video and immidiately pause it and set it to HD. Then start the first video again, start the second one, and go back to the first video and fullscreen it. The first video is the...well, video and the 2nd is audio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrAm9Eiqcw

heh.. this was pretty cool!

[Truhan]

This made me wonder something though... what happens when 2 black holes are next to one another? Does one consume the other? Does it grow? Do both just sit there, just nullifying the effect of the other? Do they orbit around eachother?

As for the black holes existing before Big Bang, not sure, we've been wrong on many things, rather get some definitive proof first.

They orbit each other, as gravitationally-bound objects tend to do. If their event horizons cross, though, the area between the two holes' singularities theoretically rips time apart. Of course, one will inevitably consume the other if they cross even horizons.

Some black holes may have happened "before" the big bang. The black holes that hold galaxies together are far too large to have been made by single stars, and they must have been made pretty early since we don't see them form anymore (of course, I would consider "before" the Big Bang to be the first 300,000 years of existence which is behind the plasma wall of unseeing). Of course, the biggest of black holes are still a mystery as to how they formed, and that's just one possibility.

[DeltrusDisc]

No. It will expand, yes, but it won't reach Earth. It will be close, but it won't reach us, let alone all the planets.

Actually this is false, when the Sun expands into a Red Giant, it will either consume the Earth or its gravity will pull the Earth in, but it will definitely take us down.

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plasma wall of unseeing

Er, what? I've never heard of this nor does it seem to be anywhere on the internet. O_o At least, Google and Wikipedia came up with nothing.

Clever phrase you came up with, perhaps? :P

[Truhan]

Actually this is false, when the Sun expands into a Red Giant, it will either consume the Earth or its gravity will pull the Earth in, but it will definitely take us down.

It's actually funny that people look at the end of the Sun's lifecycle, because the end is actually far closer for Earth and humans than it is for the Sun. The Sun is heating up and won't reach its peak temperature for another five hundred million or so years. By the time that happens, the Sun's immense heat will have quite thoroughly stripped the Earth of its atmosphere and water. Needlessly said, Earth will be quite the miserable little rock by the time the Sun consumes it (always assuming it doesn't get smashed to pieces, absorbed by the Sun, or blown up by people by then).

[ishootblanks]

It's actually funny that people look at the end of the Sun's lifecycle, because the end is actually far closer for Earth and humans than it is for the Sun. The Sun is heating up and won't reach its peak temperature for another five hundred million or so years. By the time that happens, the Sun's immense heat will have quite thoroughly stripped the Earth of its atmosphere and water. Needlessly said, Earth will be quite the miserable little rock by the time the Sun consumes it (always assuming it doesn't get smashed to pieces, absorbed by the Sun, or blown up by people by then).

I'm totally going to start investing in real estate on Neptune!

[Truhan]

Er, what? I've never heard of this nor does it seem to be anywhere on the internet. O_o At least, Google and Wikipedia came up with nothing.

Clever phrase you came up with, perhaps? :P

It's the plasma wall that we can't see through. We use radiation (X-Rays, microwaves, etc.) to "look" at space. There's a plasma wall that exists at the year 300,000 and before. There should be something about it on the page for the cosmic microwave background.

Ah, here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombi...28cosmology%29

[Khaza-R]

It's actually funny that people look at the end of the Sun's lifecycle, because the end is actually far closer for Earth and humans than it is for the Sun. The Sun is heating up and won't reach its peak temperature for another five hundred million or so years. By the time that happens, the Sun's immense heat will have quite thoroughly stripped the Earth of its atmosphere and water. Needlessly said, Earth will be quite the miserable little rock by the time the Sun consumes it (always assuming it doesn't get smashed to pieces, absorbed by the Sun, or blown up by people by then).

Or go through one of the many extinction cycles its seen in the past. Nonetheless, its hardly a concern for modern humans.

[Truhan]

Or go through one of the many extinction cycles its seen in the past. Nonetheless, its hardly a concern for modern humans.

Certainly, an extremely good point, but the future I was pointing out was merely the effective end of the planet. There won't be anymore extinction cycles after the atmosphere is gone because the Earth won't be capable of sustaining life, but an extinction cycle is certainly more likely to be the end of humans than the end of Earth.

[Wikiy]

Certainly, an extremely good point, but the future I was pointing out was merely the effective end of the planet. There won't be anymore extinction cycles after the atmosphere is gone because the Earth won't be capable of sustaining life, but an extinction cycle is certainly more likely to be the end of humans than the end of Earth.

I think we will colonise something before anything dangerous happens. Well, it may not be a lot of people but i still doubt the human race will die out in any time frame that we might currently associate with civilisations.