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Bitmap

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Since: 09-05-04
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Posted on 07-18-11 05:31 PM Link | Quote
Joke is from Portal 2.

So I watched a pretty cool video and after watching it I felt inadequate. Let's take a look at the Sun. And in comparison with other suns out there.



The largest star ever discovered. Is a Billion times larger than our own sun. If you were to have a spaceship fly all the way around that star at 900MPH. It would take 1620 years to circle it!


"Its high mass would reduce the length of the Earth's year to three weeks, and it would bathe the Earth in incredibly intense ultraviolet radiation, rendering life on our planet impossible."

Source

That is freakin insane. I love space. oh yeah. Where the joke came from: Portal 2

Spoiler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpc2rnRbJDo







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Yasu

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Posted on 07-18-11 05:52 PM Link | Quote
I feel really short all of the sudden.
Bitmap

#1 Enhancement Shaman US Ravenholdt








Since: 09-05-04
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Posted on 07-18-11 05:58 PM Link | Quote
But that's not all. One of the coolest pictures ever to surface the web came from NASA. And it's a joy to behold.

Never seen this? You should! It's the freakin SUN!

Now imagine Beetlejuice's Sun or the next step higher. Could you imagine the gravity on that thing? Or even the HEAT coming off of it?

We are NOTHING compared to these things.


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Elara

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Since: 08-15-04
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Posted on 07-18-11 08:18 PM Link | Quote
Actually, the star's name is Betelgeuse (weird, right?). Anyhow, yay, Space! Now we can all feel tiny!

Was that Mike Rowe narrating?
Bitmap

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Posted on 07-18-11 08:49 PM Link | Quote
He is one of the offical Narrators for Discovery. And a damn good one at that. I love his narrations

E- Discovery and History Channel are my two favorite channels. Besides Poker and the Anime channel. You can't stop those two. Sorry.


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Elara

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Posted on 07-18-11 11:25 PM Link | Quote
I also love those two channels, but only when there is something good on (Ice Road Truckers is NOT good, nor is any other "reality" show besides Deadliest Catch).

And Mike Rowe is a badass. I want the History Channel to have him narrate something too... I can just picture him talking about the Battle of Salamis... "And while the Spartans were being slaughtered at Thermopylae, the Athenian Navy was just off the coast of Salamis, kicking Persian butt and ensuring the security of western civilization as we know it. Where is the movie about that?"

E - It would be followed by a special Dirty Jobs segment in which Mike spends the day as a rower on a trireme.


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pacman1755

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Since: 07-25-11
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Posted on 08-09-11 12:25 AM Link | Quote
Bump to say that is insane that the largest star is a BILLION times bigger than our sun, that makes us so tiny compared to the rest of the universe, its that insane.
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