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echostorm

QLD

1245 posts

echostorm

QLD, 1245 posts

29 May 2008 12:03am

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

471 posts

General

WA, 471 posts

28 May 2008 10:24pm

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

lancekenny

402 posts

lancekenny

SA, 402 posts

29 May 2008 12:01am

If the sun was a pin head beetlejuice (red giant near orion) would be the size of a basketball...

mispent youth

moon waxing

312 posts

moon waxing

WA, 312 posts

28 May 2008 11:36pm

I thought VY Canis Majoris was the largest known star

echostorm

QLD

1245 posts

echostorm

QLD, 1245 posts

29 May 2008 10:37am

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

229 posts

pintofpale

SA, 229 posts

29 May 2008 3:16pm

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

5378 posts

sir ROWDY

WA, 5378 posts

29 May 2008 3:19pm

sweet, check out the secrects of space parts 1-3 as well. Ufo's are real.

lancekenny

402 posts

lancekenny

SA, 402 posts

29 May 2008 5:00pm

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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