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Created by echostorm > 9 months ago, 28 May 2008
echostorm
QLD, 1245 posts
29 May 2008 12:03AM
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Just watched this and I had to share it. I like the comment someone makes about scale...

"If the sun is 12cm diametre like a CD, earth is only 1.1mm diametre. Guess the diameter of vv cephei.....

228meters.

Impressive no ? "

General
WA, 471 posts
28 May 2008 10:24PM
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i thought you guys had heaps of wind, what are u doing searching that

lancekenny
SA, 402 posts
29 May 2008 12:01AM
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If the sun was a pin head beetlejuice (red giant near orion) would be the size of a basketball...

mispent youth

moon waxing
WA, 307 posts
28 May 2008 11:36PM
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I thought VY Canis Majoris was the largest known star

echostorm
QLD, 1245 posts
29 May 2008 10:37AM
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moon waxing said...

I thought VY Canis Majoris was the largest known star


It is.

It is 2100 solar radii which if my maths is right is 2,919,000,000kms in diametre.

Here is another great vid with it in it...


General said...

i thought you guys had heaps of wind, what are u doing searching that


I try to avoid kiting at midnight instead I watch geeky science videos

pintofpale
SA, 229 posts
29 May 2008 3:16PM
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I once heard if the earth was scaled to the size of a basketball, then the atmosphere is the thickness of a piece of plastic shrink wrapped on the outside. Scary when you consider what we pump into it!.. No wind here either

sir ROWDY
WA, 5353 posts
29 May 2008 3:19PM
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sweet, check out the secrects of space parts 1-3 as well. Ufo's are real.

lancekenny
SA, 402 posts
29 May 2008 5:00PM
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Just went and looked under the sink for a wormhole so I could get this weekends jackpot lotto numbers... all I found was ants... so Im off to the hardware store...

Damn youtube!!!



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