Dude, Sirius is a star, and a very hot one at that, way hotter than the Sun. You can't live on it.

Cool picture, though. I like those that put things into scale. In Maine, one of the museums built a scale model of the solar system with the Sun at the center in a building and painted on the walls to give an idea of its size and is 50' in diameter. You have get in your car and drive out route US 1 to see the planets. You have to drive about a half mile to see Mercury which is a little bigger than a ping pong ball. Earth is 1 mile away and about the size of a grapefruit. Jupiter is 5 miles away and about 5 feet across. Pluto is 40 miles away and 1 inch in diameter, about the size of a large marble. You gotta burn a lot of gas to see this whole exhibit.

http://www.umpi.maine.edu/info/nmms/solar/

Here's another brain twister - this image taken by Hubble, the ultra deep field image, covers an area of the night sky about the area of the tip of a soda straw held 8 feet away - just a tiny speck of the night sky. Yet it reveals nearly 10,000 galaxies! Each galaxy containing 100 billion stars! All that in just the tip of a soda straw as you look out at the night sky. There's no way we can comprehend even that much - just an area smaller than the size of 1/4 of your pinky fingernail held at arms length. Makes my brain hurt.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc...04/07/image/a/

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc...a/format/zoom/

 

damnit nobrakes.


puttin me even deeper into my WOAH.



kinda weird.... all that beauty and well never know whats inside it... or even be able to explore it.


never be more than a 2-d image on a high res monitor

 

is this going to be a star trek convention or what?LOL nerd alert! nerd alert!

 

youre just jealous because your tiny brain cane comprehend all this awesome

 

ow ow burn!!!!!LOL just bored man. j/k

 

haha i know.. im just fukin around to

 

It makes you wonder how many other worlds out there have life on them, hundreds, thousands, maybe.

 

and what do they look like? how do they live? what other life is there?

 

Just life? Or intelligent life?

No doubt there is life here on Earth, but I hesitate to call it intelligent. With all those galaxies, each one with all those stars, and undoubtedly all those planets, and the billions and billions of years with which to evolve, I'd venture that it is pretty fair to say we are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to intelligent life. If we are the pinnacle of what the Universe has produced, I'd be sorely disappointed.

Or maybe I'm just an optimist.

 

i think weve done a **** load...



but theres so much more possible