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  1. 07-26-2006, 08:24 AM #31
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    It's the distance that gets me.

    If the Sun were a ball with a diameter of 14cm, the Earth would be a ball, diameter 0.1cm, 15m away, Pluto would be a ball, diameter 0.02cm, 591.5m away (1/3 mile).
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    Yeah, or that if you were travelling in a modern rocket it would take you 10,000 years to get from Pluto to the edge of our Solar System!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coventrysucks
    It's the distance that gets me.

    If the Sun were a ball with a diameter of 14cm, the Earth would be a ball, diameter 0.1cm, 15m away, Pluto would be a ball, diameter 0.02cm, 591.5m away (1/3 mile).
    Same, there's something in me that can't quite fathom it. For me, 20 miles is a considerably distance (most things further away than that are useless ), so God knows how many hundreds of millions of thousands of miles is incomprehensible... is there even a unit or measurement big enough to tell us how big Antares is?
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    Quote Originally Posted by IWantAnAudiRS6
    is there even a unit or measurement big enough to tell us how big Antares is?

    lol Yeah a light year is considerably bigger.

    1 light year = 9.4605284 × 10^15 meters while the diameter of Antares is 1.33 × 10^12 meters.
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    imagine if antares was our earth... we would be the capital of the universe, and never have to worry about over population!
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    No, we would be too busy being crushed by the enormous gravity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by h00t_h00t
    No, we would be too busy being crushed by the enormous gravity.
    We would have already evolved to handle it if we had alerady been living there...
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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Canuck
    We would have already ewvolved to handle it if we had alerady been living there...
    "A string is approximately nine long."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Equinox
    imagine if antares was our earth... we would be the capital of the universe, and never have to worry about over population!
    We'd also be covered in cheese dust.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pergarec
    lol Yeah a light year is considerably bigger.

    1 light year = 9.4605284 × 10^15 meters while the diameter of Antares is 1.33 × 10^12 meters.
    Theres also parsecs, which are a little over 3 light years per unit
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    Quote Originally Posted by fpv_gtho
    Theres also parsecs, which are a little over 3 light years per unit
    "A string is approximately nine long."
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    1LY = 3.2616pc
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    Quote Originally Posted by fpv_gtho
    1LY = 3.2616pc
    No, I think it's the other way around:
    1 parsec = 3.26 Light-years
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