check this out. its pretty trippy once you get to sirius and realise that jupiter is 350X times the size of earth. jupiter is barely 1/200th of sirius. sirius is barely 1/200th of aldebaran. alderbaran isnt even close to 1/1000th of antares. and antares is about half of VV cephei.


thats so unimaginably huge.


im sorta in awe right now. of just how pathetic we really are. and vv cephei has the potential to be 1/1000th of some other star well never be able to see with our technology.

another thing, what if we lived on.. say, sirius. thats so much land. can you imagine filling earth with wheat, and not even using 1% of the planets overall land??? thats so amazing.

then i think back to the days like the Renaissance. when technology was a sword and a shield. and flying was witchcraft. and to travel parts europe would take days, or even weeks. and now we feel the same was they did about the future, how can it get more advanced than this? how can we fly in space, how can we populate other planets? and most have the same answer that people in the renaissance did about current technology. communicating across the globe in milliseconds, traveling across entire oceans and still having enough time in the day to go to a fancy restaurant, then see a movie. putting people on a flat screen and watching them whenever you please. if you went back in time, even only 4-500 years and told them about what we have today they would go completely insane. and yet stuff like this simple pitcure of planets and stars amazes you and me. however, what baffles me further is, in the future, when this is considerd normal, when people will go from earth to sirius in a day or two and not give it a second thought... what will amaze and baffle them? what will they consider impossible? what will blow their minds? and whatever it is it must be truly incresible because as of now, we struggle to even imagine it. and its very cool and kind of depressing all at the same time. its an extremely unique feeling to be in total awe like this yet its a bit depressing knowing that youll never live long enough to see any of it be anything more than a distant mystery in a light polluted sky.

 

Wow..

 

i hear ya kx, i think about stuff like that what you said too.

 

Yeah when im well in a nother world lol im always talking like I work at NASA lol.. gotta love the discovery channles lol

 

yea i always think of how there could be so many more planets that support life taht we could never travel to

 

yeah. other things like, if we orbited antares... how long would a year be? and how long will it take before we can travel to places like that? over thousands and thousands of years we lived in castles and had holy wars and things like that. and in just the past 100 years we have made everything you see around us. go back 300 years and 20mph was hauling ***. now a car that tops off at 120 is unimpressive. what about the next 100? the next thousand? and what will they think then? what till they imagine for 1000 years in the future? i try to think of what they would and my brain sorta crashes itself and i get really baffled and mildly pissed at it all, but its still really cool and fun to think about.

 

Thats pretty deep KX, you haven't just finished smoking a J have you? I have seen those before and it is totally mind blowing. Are planet is nothing more than a speck floating around in space when compared to whats around us. It kinda reminds me of the ending scene in Men In Black where the alien was playing marbles with the galaxies.

 

I've had the same thoughts kx. I also think that maybe we were this advanced a long long time ago, and we did one little thing wrong and everything on the planet was destroyed, nothing remained. Then life started again.

Imagine an alien from vv cephei. Thy could eat our planet like a jaw breaker.

 

naw, i havnt smoked in quite awhile... i just get like that sometimes, all grammatically correct n' such. its a side of me rarely seen (about 4 times a year) not much brings it out of me. like in mr.zakian's (no, not a towelhead... hes white) english class sophmore year, he held me after class to discuss some essays i wrote. he kept saying how he thought i was gonna make a ton of spelling errors and have a plot/message mostly oriented around drugs and violence, but i didnt. the most impressive one (his opinion) was on family values and basic human morales and about 6 pages long... i scored a 136% on that paper and passed the class with a 98 average.

 

I love that ending too.