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Originally Posted by Elistan,Nov 28 2007, 02:33 PM
What do you mean by "the sun in that galaxy"? Andromeda contains about one trillion suns. There's not really any one single brighest object in Andromeda that makes it visible - it's more akin to a big cloud of stars that we can't make out individually.
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You want to get a sense of the size of things out there? Check out the movie The Powers of 10.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BBsOeLcUARw
A similar movie, "Cosmic Zoom"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b8zrlOGKI2E
Our galaxy is associated with about 50 othe galaxies, in a group called the Local Group. That is, in turn, one of about a 100 ofther groups in the Virgo Supercluster. Superclusters, which are in the hundreds-of-millions-of-lightyears size range, are then composed into giant billions-of-lightyears large sheets, with great voids in between. (Think of a collection of soap bubbles, with galaxies clustered on the surfaces of the bubbles, but nothing inside the bubbles except, perhaps, small filaments made up of lines of galaxies. The filament part is a theory proposed only recently I think.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BBsOeLcUARw
A similar movie, "Cosmic Zoom"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b8zrlOGKI2E
Our galaxy is associated with about 50 othe galaxies, in a group called the Local Group. That is, in turn, one of about a 100 ofther groups in the Virgo Supercluster. Superclusters, which are in the hundreds-of-millions-of-lightyears size range, are then composed into giant billions-of-lightyears large sheets, with great voids in between. (Think of a collection of soap bubbles, with galaxies clustered on the surfaces of the bubbles, but nothing inside the bubbles except, perhaps, small filaments made up of lines of galaxies. The filament part is a theory proposed only recently I think.)
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Originally Posted by Elistan,Nov 28 2007, 02:04 PM
You want to get a sense of the size of things out there? Check out the movie The Powers of 10.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BBsOeLcUARw
A similar movie, "Cosmic Zoom"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b8zrlOGKI2E
Our galaxy is associated with about 50 othe galaxies, in a group called the Local Group. That is, in turn, one of about a 100 ofther groups in the Virgo Supercluster. Superclusters, which are in the hundreds-of-millions-of-lightyears size range, are then composed into giant billions-of-lightyears large sheets, with great voids in between. (Think of a collection of soap bubbles, with galaxies clustered on the surfaces of the bubbles, but nothing inside the bubbles except, perhaps, small filaments made up of lines of galaxies. The filament part is a theory proposed only recently I think.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BBsOeLcUARw
A similar movie, "Cosmic Zoom"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b8zrlOGKI2E
Our galaxy is associated with about 50 othe galaxies, in a group called the Local Group. That is, in turn, one of about a 100 ofther groups in the Virgo Supercluster. Superclusters, which are in the hundreds-of-millions-of-lightyears size range, are then composed into giant billions-of-lightyears large sheets, with great voids in between. (Think of a collection of soap bubbles, with galaxies clustered on the surfaces of the bubbles, but nothing inside the bubbles except, perhaps, small filaments made up of lines of galaxies. The filament part is a theory proposed only recently I think.)
i gotta go to work tho guys...i hate these 16 hour days ahhh!!!!
see u guys and this topic 2moro mornin
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i am a firm believer that we never landed on the moon. Glad to know i have someone that agrees with me here. in fact, there was a national survey and 40% of national citizens believed that we never landed on the moon....but ofcourse you can never assume that the survey was anything close to credible.
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Originally Posted by C U AT 9K,Nov 28 2007, 03:19 PM
PalenkosBro,
where do you get your acid man??
where do you get your acid man??
I like this topic made me think, also reading it was a good way to kill 10 minutes @ work.
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Originally Posted by Elistan,Nov 28 2007, 04:40 PM
Stupid people breed faster than smart ones, so I think heads will get SMALLER as time goes on. 
(Not that cranial size is a predictor of intelligence, though. )
(Not that cranial size is a predictor of intelligence, though. )
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Originally Posted by PalenkosBro,Nov 28 2007, 05:26 PM
ahhhh.......i believed that and thought i was the only one lol
my sociology professor even pointed it out to us
my sociology professor even pointed it out to us
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............whoa man. Like whoa.
I don't have too much to add, but I'll say this little tidbit of information about Jupiter. [I forgot where I read it, but it was a credible source. I don't remember for sure whether it was theory or fact though]
The core of Jupiter is actually metal. That metal? Hydrogen. The pressure at the centre of Jupiter is so great it turned a gas into all the basic classifactions of a metal.
I don't have too much to add, but I'll say this little tidbit of information about Jupiter. [I forgot where I read it, but it was a credible source. I don't remember for sure whether it was theory or fact though]
The core of Jupiter is actually metal. That metal? Hydrogen. The pressure at the centre of Jupiter is so great it turned a gas into all the basic classifactions of a metal.