The Size of Our World

[Jacob Orlove]

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

This kind of thing is always much more impressive visually.

[Matt]

Incidentally, the moon's radius is about one-half that of Mars (1737 km vs. 3397 km) so it's about one-fourth the size of Mars. I think the moon makes it connect even more.

[Bram]

I remember being SO disappointed whan I found out Jupiter was a gas giant. I always thought it unfair that such a pretty, huge-ass planet was nothing more that a ball of gas. Additionally, I remember being really excuited when I learned that there's a solid, rocky ball in its core. So we may yet walk on the surface! As long as we can stand 'inhaing' metallic hydrogen and pressures that make walking on the bottom of the atlantic feel like a walk in the park, that is.

The universe is such a cool place. I wish I was there.

[Limbo]

All the cool kids walk on a white dwarf when it crosses the Chandrasekhar limit.

Is it possible for this Red Dwarf to cross the same limit?

[Bram]

It's not impossible, Limbo. The JMC "Red Dwarf" is a five miles long, four wide and three high box (making it about five times longer than a Star Destroyer, and many times more voluminous, though it still won't show up as more than a pixel in the first picture). I'm guessing is Lister keeps up his lager-and-curry diet for much longer, the whole thing will go nova.

I wish *our* primary went supernova. It would sure solve a lot of problems. Heck, it would solve *all*  problems.

[BigMac]

Heck, it would solve *all*  problems.

Tell that to the cockroaches and the scorpions that survive the longest wondering where the heck everybody else has gone to.

[Matt]

You Dutch sure have a strange definition of "solve."

[BigMac]

You Dutch sure have a strange definition of "solve."

What would you call it, a solution??

[Matt]

Maybe a "final solution" if I felt like being tactless.

[LotusHead]

http://www.kottke.org/06/06/powers-of-ten

This give another perspective into "Perspective" or "Size", or "Magnitude"...


An engineer buddy of mine hooked me up with this link. Only going through old emails (spring cleaning) did I realize I never shared this with TMD peoples...


Pre-emptive "Doh!" I did post this Earlier!.  Sorry. Boths post have saime intent.  Please merge both or delete my original post (this one is cooler and this link is better as a supplement to earlier thread.)

[SpencerForHire]

You Dutch sure have a strange definition of "solve."

Maybe a "final solution" if I felt like being tactless.

You crazy texans aren't much better.

Personally I like not being burned alive... Or being crushed by tremendous pressure, it's all about doing the minute thing and dying off be eating too much fat and not making a mark in the scale of things.. If that makes ANY sense.

[LotusHead]

Given the recent Pluto Thing, it looks to me like Pluto is pretty big (compared to Earth. It's not like a BaseBall next to a grain of sand or even a marble, but at least a JawBreaker sized object).

What's this about Planets clearing their own orbit/Pluto sharing Neptune's Orbit?

[Matt]

Pluto's orbit intersects with Neptune's. About 1/3 of the time, Neptune is further away from the sun than Pluto. They just switched recently (in the last six or seven years).