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Cloggsy
30-03-07, 02:00 PM
Now, THIS is really fascinating. It's rather dazzling to see it presented this way.
http://www.goodwinfamily.force9.co.uk/starsandplanets1.jpg
http://www.goodwinfamily.force9.co.uk/starsandplanets2.jpg
http://www.goodwinfamily.force9.co.uk/starsandplanets3.jpg
http://www.goodwinfamily.force9.co.uk/starsandplanets4.jpg
http://www.goodwinfamily.force9.co.uk/starsandplanets5.jpg
Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than 1000 light years away.
Now how big are you?
And, how big are the things that will upset you today?
Or, for that matter, the things that are important?
KEEP LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE!
kwak zzr
30-03-07, 02:15 PM
WOW nice one! open'd my eyes just abit. :)
Thats pretty cool actually. But wheres the pic of the biggest/brightest star!
wyrdness
30-03-07, 02:23 PM
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
wow makes my bum seem really really really small lol
saw this on here a few weeks back, it is utterly mind blowing!!
I'm 5'4 and wider than I'd like to be, thank you.
wow makes my bum seem really really really small lol
:lol:
I'm 5'4 and wider than I'd like to be, thank you.
:lol:
Could be all in your mind - post a picture & let the community decide!!!
;o)
I'm 5'4 and wider than I'd like to be, thank you.
:lol:
aaawww how cute and ickle are you!!
sorry....:oops:
aaawww how cute and ickle are you!!
sorry....:oops:
:lol: You should see me standing next to Pigbunk. :lol:
Beaniebike
30-03-07, 03:56 PM
I'm a wee bit freeked out now actually.....
I'm a wee bit freeked out now actually.....
is pigbunk really that big then?
is pigbunk really that big then?
:lol:
Antares?.... is dwarfed by Pigbunk.. be freeked.. be very freeked... :lol:
rpwoodman
30-03-07, 04:16 PM
Nice one - I thought that was very interesting
Supervox
30-03-07, 04:56 PM
is pigbunk really that big then?
Imagine you have a big bagful of really big things & multiply by a really big number . . .
. . . your not even close to imagining how big Pigbunk actually is !! :cool:
. . . your not even close to imagining how big Pigbunk actually is !! :cool:
Lets put it this way, he keeps trying to borrow Supervox's BMW GS1200 for a spot of mini moto fun.....:cool:
Treacle
30-03-07, 05:29 PM
Lets put it this way, he keeps trying to borrow Supervox's BMW GS1200 for a spot of mini moto fun.....:cool:
LMFAO Now that I would love to see. Pigbunk on a minimoto:smt082.
Top post by the way Cloggsy. Very interesting:thumright:
Blue_SV650S
30-03-07, 07:15 PM
Space is fascinating … another thought is that when you look up at the stars, some of them don’t physically exist any more … they blew up years ago, but we are still only seeing the light from before they blew as it has only just got here … i.e. if a star was 200 light years away and it blew up 199 years ago, it would still be a star to us for the next year, but in reality it blew up before we were born!! Mind boggling!! :eek: :alien:
Think I am gonna go down another ‘Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster’ and ponder on it some more!! :lol:
Samnooshka
30-03-07, 08:56 PM
Facinating stuff :D it's weird to see it put like that
LMFAO Now that I would love to see. Pigbunk on a minimoto:smt082.
Top post by the way Cloggsy. Very interesting:thumright:
Surely me on the SV is close enough to seeing me on a minimoto? And yes, I'm huge. 6'4", weighing 18 stone. It took an entire herd to make my leathers...
Me............4 ft 10:D
Tiny..........6 ft 11:cyclopsani:
His hands are as big as my head!
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/Lissasv650/BoxHillFeb05010.jpg
Warthog
31-03-07, 01:35 PM
Ah he is cheating, he is standing on a small sliver of polystyrene...
rpwoodman
31-03-07, 01:47 PM
Me............4 ft 10:D
Tiny..........6 ft 11:cyclopsani:
Is that your partner??
I don't suppose he rides pillion on the back of your bike - that would be a sight to see!
And why do they call him "Tiny"? :-)
Fizzy Fish
31-03-07, 01:51 PM
oh wow...could it be that Tiny is even bigger than Pigbunk?? :shock:
that's almost like being even cooler than Treacle...
oh wow...could it be that Tiny is even bigger than Pigbunk?? :shock:
that's almost like being even cooler than Treacle...
*Quietly sulks because there's someone bigger than me...*
Kids loved that post - nice one.
Supervox
01-04-07, 04:34 PM
Me............4 ft 10:D
Tiny..........6 ft 11:cyclopsani:
His hands are as big as my head!
Ah, the infamous Tiny - I've met him at several Suzuki events & apart from being a thoroughly nice guy, he is also the epitome of a true gentle giant - until you p*ss him off anyway !! :)
Jools'SV Now
01-04-07, 07:33 PM
....and remember kids, that the politicians and do-gooders would have you believe that MAN and the small machines we use have the biggest effect on our climate.
When you see the scale of the sun, you realise that the solar flares that look insignificant on the telly programmes are actually 5x the size of earth and heading our way.
CO2 emmissions my ar5e.
Dang, that is quite freaky.
I have to be honest. I had no idea how big the other planets in our solar system really were. :shock:
We are sooooooo tiny. There really is a lot of space out there. Also had no idea about those other planets outside of the sun. When did they get discovered. :?: I assume that those ones are outside our solar system :?:
All these big planets etc - why don't we all drop to the bottom of the universe - is there a bottom of the universe? Is it the gravitational pull of the sun that holds us in place? And then, why doesn't the sun fall down, what's holding that in place?
Jools'SV Now
01-04-07, 10:07 PM
....what makes you think the sun is being held in 1 place?
as long as the sun holds us the same distance away/same orbit we'd never know.
freeky, huh?
PS the star constilations do move about a bit....or maybe it's us:confused:
....what makes you think the sun is being held in 1 place?
as long as the sun holds us the same distance away/same orbit we'd never know.
freeky, huh?
PS the star constilations do move about a bit....or maybe it's us:confused:
I never thought of that.
Isn't Antares the sun of the nearest solar system to ours or something?
Edit: Wooh! it's in Scorpius... THE BEST consellation. 8)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares
Bluesteel
02-04-07, 10:12 AM
Isn't Antares the sun of the nearest solar system to ours or something?
It's a shame Patrick Moore doesn't ride an SV...
It's a shame Patrick Moore doesn't ride an SV...
:lol:
Oops, was editing my post at the same time you were replying. :lol:
Caddy2000
02-04-07, 12:32 PM
....and remember kids, that the politicians and do-gooders would have you believe that MAN and the small machines we use have the biggest effect on our climate.
When you see the scale of the sun, you realise that the solar flares that look insignificant on the telly programmes are actually 5x the size of earth and heading our way.
CO2 emmissions my ar5e.
Solar flares have always happened and will continues to happen for a long long time.
They do not explain why the earth is heating up so quickly. YES it heats up and cools down in a natural sine wave type thingy, but the rate we are heating up cannot be explained by solar flares as the earth has never in it's history heated up so quickly.....
.... Apart from around the time of the big bang......
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction - everything we do has a consequence, don't blame what you do in life on something else!
Just a personal view like
chiangbANG!
02-04-07, 10:53 PM
Woah.
BernardBikerchick
03-04-07, 08:35 AM
how very cool and somewhat humbling !
....what makes you think the sun is being held in 1 place?
as long as the sun holds us the same distance away/same orbit we'd never know.
freeky, huh?
PS the star constilations do move about a bit....or maybe it's us:confused:
According to some physicists the entire universe could have been as small as a grape at the point of the big bang, this then expanded to the size of a grapefriut (measured in trillionths of seconds ) before expanding into the universe we see today. As the universe is still expanding everything is flying out from that original point at roughly the same speed relative to its mass and therefore gravitational pull on its surrounding objects. Eventually all stars and planets will be so far away from each other that we will no longer be able to see their light. At some point in the future the energy used to expand the galaxy will be so weak that a new phase called the big crunch will possibly start to happen whereby all matter in the galaxy will start to contract again.
So dont panic . :)
Alpinestarhero
04-04-07, 02:00 PM
According to some physicists the entire universe could have been as small as a grape at the point of the big bang, this then expanded to the size of a grapefriut (measured in trillionths of seconds ) before expanding into the universe we see today. As the universe is still expanding everything is flying out from that original point at roughly the same speed relative to its mass and therefore gravitational pull on its surrounding objects. Eventually all stars and planets will be so far away from each other that we will no longer be able to see their light. At some point in the future the energy used to expand the galaxy will be so weak that a new phase called the big crunch will possibly start to happen whereby all matter in the galaxy will start to contract again.
So dont panic . :)
Ah, but is the universe not expanding at an ever increasing rate?
Hence everything will become ultra diffuse..
Matt
The only known constant in the universe is that nexts years bikes will be lighter,faster,stiffer, more powerful and better than the ones we,ve all just forked out for !
The Basket
04-04-07, 02:05 PM
Isn't Antares the sun of the nearest solar system to ours or something?
Edit: Wooh! it's in Scorpius... THE BEST consellation. 8)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares
It is a beautiful red colour. Not easy to see in the UK as it is low in the horizon...a summer star.
The further south you go, the more easy it is to see.
Ah, but is the universe not expanding at an ever increasing rate?
Hence everything will become ultra diffuse..
Matt
You got me their mate ( trust me to be a bl##dy smartarse :rolleyes: ) it was my understanding that once all the energy ran out a contaction stage would begin. I honestly dont know, it took me about 4 attempts to get through ' a brief history of time' .:)
Sid Squid
04-04-07, 02:27 PM
You got me their mate ( trust me to be a bl##dy smartarse :rolleyes: ) it was my understanding that once all the energy ran out a contaction stage would begin. I honestly dont know, it took me about 4 attempts to get through ' a brief history of time' .:)
The previously favoured theory was of an expanding and contracting universe where the 'Big Bang' caused the universe we now see, and then, that energy having been expended, the expansion of the universe would slow down, and gravity would cause all the matter in the universe to eventually converge and start the process all over again, however recent measurements have suggested that the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating, the force behind this is theorised to be 'dark matter' which actually has a repulsive effect, rather than an attractive effect which all 'visible' matter has, it has been postulated that dark matter makes up a far larger proportion of the universe than does visible matter. This means that the universe will keep expanding until it is entirely dark and cold and unwelcoming, like Swindon.
Filipe M.
04-04-07, 02:29 PM
The previously favoured theory was of an expanding and contracting universe where the 'Big Bang' caused the universe we now see, and then, that energy having been expended, the expansion of the universe would slow down, and gravity would cause all the matter in the universe to eventually converge and start the process all over again, however recent measurements have suggested that the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating, the force behind this is theorised to be 'dark matter' which actually has a repulsive effect, rather than an attractive effect which all 'visible' matter has, it has been postulated that dark matter makes up a far larger proportion of the universe than does visible matter. This means that the universe will keep expanding until it is entirely dark and cold and unwelcoming, like Swindon.
Ah, but will it have magic roundabouts too?
The previously favoured theory was of an expanding and contracting universe where the 'Big Bang' caused the universe we now see, and then, that energy having been expended, the expansion of the universe would slow down, and gravity would cause all the matter in the universe to eventually converge and start the process all over again, however recent measurements have suggested that the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating, the force behind this is theorised to be 'dark matter' which actually has a repulsive effect, rather than an attractive effect which all 'visible' matter has, it has been postulated that dark matter makes up a far larger proportion of the universe than does visible matter. This means that the universe will keep expanding until it is entirely dark and cold and unwelcoming, like Swindon.
Dang that's depressing. Can't it all become large, warm, loose and slightly wobbly, like me on a friday night?
Its all a bit mind boggling though isnt it ? just waded through a book called 'paralell worlds' by michio kaku, total headfu#k !:smt103 but if you can get your round 11 dimesions and dark matter you are a better man than me. :)
...This means that the universe will keep expanding until it is entirely dark and cold and unwelcoming, like Swindon.
Nice touch Sid, nice touch ;)
seedy100
04-04-07, 07:48 PM
And
What you have to remeber is that all this exists just so that we could be created as the choosen ones.
Makes ya think!
Dang that's depressing. Can't it all become large, warm, loose and slightly wobbly, like me on a friday night?
:lol:
Blue Flame
05-04-07, 10:59 PM
According to some physicists the entire universe could have been as small as a grape at the point of the big bang, this then expanded to the size of a grapefriut ...etc etc
OK....... but what was surrounding the grape before the big bang. Another universe???? This is where i lose all sense of it all. I prefer to look on the universe as simply a bag of marbles like the end sequence of 'Men in Black'. :)
If I knew the answer to that one I wouldnt be spending 12 hrs a night putting trailers on and off bays for Matalan !:) interesting stuff though innit ? ;)
Alpinestarhero
06-04-07, 02:16 PM
Yea, it is interesting, but bloody hard to get your head around
Luckily, us chemists dont concern ourselves with such problems. Well, lucky for me, or I might have run away from university a long while back :shock:
Matt
cool guitar by the way , what it is it ?:confused:
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