The scale of the known Universe

[J T]

This little app is rather amazing for putting things in perspective

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

[CRTGAMER]

Nice. I heard somewhere there are more stars out there then the grains of sand on Earth. We are a small on the grand scale. Another phrase that blows me away: If the entire history of Earth is on a 24 hour clock, man's actual existence so far is the last few seconds before midnight.

Makes one wonder.

Power Point: 24 hour Earth Time file.
http://www.rbksch.org/resources/prim/ks ... lution.ppt

[Pulsar_t]

People need to stop obsessing about teeth and phallic measurements and look up to the stars and learn some humility

[jeffro11]

That was very cool, thanks for the link.

[BlackDS]

awesome, and people don't believe that aliens exist.if we could exist, why couldn't something else exist in the near-infinite dimensions of space?

[thekorean12]

That was pretty cool.

awesome, and people don't believe that aliens exist.if we could exist, why couldn't something else exist in the near-infinite dimensions of space?

That is my argument every single time...

[Limewater]

awesome, and people don't believe that aliens exist.if we could exist, why couldn't something else exist in the near-infinite dimensions of space?

"Why not?" questions make very poor arguments. We have neither enough information or the observational capacity to conclude one way or the other.

[MrPopo]

awesome, and people don't believe that aliens exist.if we could exist, why couldn't something else exist in the near-infinite dimensions of space?

"Why not?" questions make very poor arguments. We have neither enough information or the observational capacity to conclude one way or the other.

I think his point is that it is invalid to definitively say that they don't exist because of the incedible vastness of space; the math says that it's just as likely that they do exist. But, as you said, we cannot conclude one way or another. Without our luck they're all beyond 14 billion light years.

[Gnashvar]

That's cool. Now add some Sagan to it

[final fight cd]

If the entire history of Earth is on a 24 hour clock, man's actual existence so far is the last few seconds before midnight.

is that it? i would have thought that man's existence would be around a hundredths or thousandths of a second on a 24 hour clock.