Dillinger
Guerrilla Ontologist
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I love reading about this stuff. Came across some of this, in all places, in Maxim.
STONER THOUGHTS:
One teaspoon of a neutron star weighs 100 billion tons. Its gravitational field is too strong to allow surface imperfections, so it looks like a giant pinball.
If our sun were the size of a basketball, the nearest star would be similar basketball 5,000 miles away.
THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME
15 billion years ago: The Big Bang creates, well, everything, releasing enough energy to equal 9.5 x 10 to the 53rd megatons of TNT... Dick Clark is born.
13 billion years ago: The effects of gravity kick in, collapsing clouds of hydrogen and helium atoms into galaxies, including the Milky Way.
5 billion years ago: Our sun begins its 10-billion-year life. As it spins into gear, the sun's Saturn-like rings eventually clump together to form planets.
3.5 billion years ago: Life begins here on Earth. Granted, its only a few simple bacteria; but, hey, that's the stuff of evolution.
130,000 years ago: Modern man appears. If this time line were to scale, all of human existence would be 1/40 as wide as a human hair.
2 billion years from now: The Andromedia galaxy could collide with our Milky Way, blowing up stars and wreaking shitloads of havoc. (And perhaps even signalling the premature end of Literotica.)
4 to 5 billion years from now: The sun will run out of fuel and expand a la Oprah in a donut shop, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and probably Earth.
1,000 billion years from now: Either (1) all the stars will have burned out or (2) the universe will collapse into one dense ball of mass. And then it starts all over again...
STONER THOUGHTS:
One teaspoon of a neutron star weighs 100 billion tons. Its gravitational field is too strong to allow surface imperfections, so it looks like a giant pinball.
If our sun were the size of a basketball, the nearest star would be similar basketball 5,000 miles away.
THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME
15 billion years ago: The Big Bang creates, well, everything, releasing enough energy to equal 9.5 x 10 to the 53rd megatons of TNT... Dick Clark is born.
13 billion years ago: The effects of gravity kick in, collapsing clouds of hydrogen and helium atoms into galaxies, including the Milky Way.
5 billion years ago: Our sun begins its 10-billion-year life. As it spins into gear, the sun's Saturn-like rings eventually clump together to form planets.
3.5 billion years ago: Life begins here on Earth. Granted, its only a few simple bacteria; but, hey, that's the stuff of evolution.
130,000 years ago: Modern man appears. If this time line were to scale, all of human existence would be 1/40 as wide as a human hair.
2 billion years from now: The Andromedia galaxy could collide with our Milky Way, blowing up stars and wreaking shitloads of havoc. (And perhaps even signalling the premature end of Literotica.)
4 to 5 billion years from now: The sun will run out of fuel and expand a la Oprah in a donut shop, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and probably Earth.
1,000 billion years from now: Either (1) all the stars will have burned out or (2) the universe will collapse into one dense ball of mass. And then it starts all over again...
