Putting things in perspective

[mikeyj23]

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[SIZE=5]ANTARES IS THE 15TH BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE SKY.[/SIZE][SIZE=5] IT IS MORE THAN 1000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY.

[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]NOW HOW BIG ARE YOU?[/SIZE][SIZE=5]

NOW TRY TO WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND THIS...[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2]THIS IS A HUBBLE TELESCOPE ULTRA DEEP FIELD INFRARED VIEW OF COUNTLESS[/SIZE][SIZE=2] "ENTIRE" GALAXIES BILLIONS OF LIGHT-YEARS AWAY.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2]BELOW IS A CLOSE UP OF ONE OF THE DARKEST REGIONS OF THE PHOTO ABOVE. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=7]HUMBLING, ISN'T IT?[/SIZE]


[SIZE=6]NOW[/SIZE][SIZE=6] HOW BIG ARE YOU?[/SIZE][SIZE=2]
AND HOW BIG ARE THE THINGS THAT UPSET YOU TODAY?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=7]KEEP LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE.
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[SIZE=6]BE HAPPY AND DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF![/SIZE]

[gnukfu]

Hmm I bet there are some really great cigars we haven't tried out there somewhere! Thanks for the post and perspective.

[Mystophales]

I love this post mainly because it really illustrates the SIZE we are dealing with here. It is incredibly difficult to put into words how big the universe is. It boggles my mind when people tell me they think there is no other intelligent life in the universe....how the hell could there NOT be.

I know this was not what the post was intended for but I couldn't help but thread jack it...

[SR Mike]

Looking at those pics, I just laugh that scientist actually believe people on Earth are destroying the universe because we are trying to look into the darkness of the universe to find something new.

[jonny0783]

I am not going to sit here and preach but after looking at that you got to know theres a higher being.

Jon

[SR Mike]

Originally Posted by jonny0783

I am not going to sit here and preach but after looking at that you got to know theres a higher being.

Jon

My cat!

[MarkinCA]

[SIZE=3]We have over 1500 or so eliptical and spiral galaxies within this space called a Universe, and one would have to think there is life out there somewhere. Thanks for putting things in perspective for us mikey23...[/SIZE]

[mikeyj23]

Just to put credit where credit is due, or rather take credit from where it's not due(me), my mom sent this to me in an email. I'm not sure who put it together but it wasn't me. I just thought it'd be beneficial here

[IHT]

that's great information and a nice use of the many meanings on the word "perspective".

i really don't think some alien being gives a rats rosey ass about my problems... so, when i have a problem, it's a lot bigger than what Antares could ever possibly mean to me in size or outlook, at least, that's my perspective.

[cvm4]

Light travels at 186,000 miles a second. So a light second is 186,000 miles. A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles. Taking this into account, if a star is 1 million light years away, the light from that star has traveled at the speed of light to reach us. It has taken the star's light 1 million years to get here, and the light we are seeing was created 1 million years ago.

Pretty cool

[tfar]

Truly mind boggling. Thanks for the nice post. It amazes me time and time again when I read about astronomy. The big problem is that when I start reading about it I hardly understand even half of it.

Till

[Little General]

With all this mass in our universe, we still don't know what gravity is...

[Lorglath]

A-mazing, thank you for sharing this