“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.” --Sylvia Plath

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Try to imagine something a million times larger than the sun....

....now multiply that by a thousand. That's how big the largest star every discovered is - one billion times larger than our sun. But also remember that we're talking about our sun here, which is one hundred times the size of the earth - and think about how big the earth is compared to the size of you. Thinking about this makes my brain stretch, and I am addicted to that feeling. Click here to watch a cool video that illustrates all of this.
posted by Sarah at 9:17 PM
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3 comments:

  1. AziaSeptember 2, 2010 at 9:50 PM

    ahhhhhh!!! this was amazing!!!!!! now i feel a sudden urge to pull out my old 'life in the universe' text book! thanks! i'm innn the mooood!

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  2. Johann the CabbieSeptember 3, 2010 at 4:20 AM

    Brain stretched? My brain has turned into a puddle of goo. This is too incomprehensible.

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  3. Pat TillettSeptember 4, 2010 at 1:14 PM

    My brain can't even stretch that far. Some things simply defy the limits of our imagination. "Space" is one of them.

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