it's all a matter of perspective

[cloudy]

I got an email from a friend today that included this (keep scrolling):

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n124/phyde1987/planets1.jpg
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n124/phyde1987/planets2.jpg
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n124/phyde1987/planets3.jpg
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n124/phyde1987/planets4.jpg
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n124/phyde1987/planets5.jpg

Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than 1000 light years away.

Now how big are you?

Keep life in perspective. Don't sweat the small stuff.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I saw this a few months ago. Very interesting.

But I had been under the impression that Betelgeuse was the largest star found by astronemers? When was Anteres found?

 

[cantdog]

Twain wrote an article about Arcturus, considered in this way. He said, tongue in cheek, that the Creator had been extremely generous to have made such an object simply to light the night sky for Mankind, which it didn't begin to actually do until the first thousand years were gone by.

 

[cloudy]

Antares.

(yes, I know wiki isn't 100% reliable, it's just easy)

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Antares.

(yes, I know wiki isn't 100% reliable, it's just easy)

a friend of mine changed her last name to Antares...

 

[mismused]

delete

 

[shereads]

How big are you?

I bowl with planets bigger than this.

 

[rgraham666]

This is why I regard life as a miracle.

Of all the matter and all the energy that exists in the universe, look at how little came together in a way to create the world we know.

On top of that, what are the odds of that little flurry creating the individual that is each of us.

It's why I get so pissed at the way so many people act. We've been given a gift beyond reckoning and we piss it away.

To finish, a little mnemonic.

Oh Be A Fine Girl. Kiss Me Right Now, Smack.

 

[cumallday]

Maybe it's just me, but I found myself strangely attracted to Uranus.

 

[rgraham666]

I bowl with planets bigger than this.

But still smaller than your ego.

 

[jomar]

I bowl with planets bigger than this.

Amazing isn't it. I saw the planets awhile back, but the stars... outer space would be a good topic for the flashfic thread

 

[angelicminx]

Thanks, Cloudy!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I keep this same perspective for the multitude of breast sizes I see every day.

Especially the really warm, sunny, stretchable thin-cotton tank-top wearing days.

 

[rgraham666]

I keep this same perspective for the multitude of breast sizes I see every day.

Especially the really warm, sunny, stretchable thin-cotton tank-top wearing days.

(applauds heartily)

 

[amicus]

Yes, thank you and, ah, interesting; however...If I may.

Rather than 'small and insignificant' within the scope of the Universe, I prefer to marvel at the capacity of the human mind and the scope of the imagination and intellect to 'contain' the vastness of existence and smile at our perceptions.

amicus...

 

[The_Fool]

I keep this same perspective for the multitude of breast sizes I see every day.

Especially the really warm, sunny, stretchable thin-cotton tank-top wearing days.

Do they have Abstrusions written on them?

 

[cloudy]

Do they have Abstrusions written on them?

. .

 

[shereads]

But still smaller than your ego.

That's not my ego, darling. Those are my breasts.

 

[rgraham666]

That's not my ego, darling. Those are my breasts.

Sproing!

 

[Liar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot


"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

-Carl Sagan