Feeling small? This will help.

i reckon there are puppies on mars. whole bunch of great danes frollicking about on the red mountains.

only they're some sort of hyper beings and are made of gas so we can't see them.

and I thought jj.am was only for jailbait pics!

Reach for the stars!

You stand on a distant planet

Skyline of red plateaus

Strange air and vegetation

You're a winner!

Welcome to the Space Olympics

The year Thirty Twenty Two

Take part in a grand tradition

Your name echoes in the holes of the universe!

Believe in yourself!

Take your game into outer space!

Every single galactic athlete

Needs a coded ID badge

Drug tests are mandatory

You're a winner!

The Athlete's Village is on Zargon

You all get a junior suite

We don't cover incidentals

So keep your ass off the minibar!

You're the best in the world!

Brace yourself 'cause there's no gravity!

You're in the motherfuckin' Space Olympics!

Let it be known by every nation

You'll only get one meal a day

There was a bit of a budget SNAFU

And food funding is insufficient

We can't really enforce a curfew

As there is no light or sound

Just one of the many problems

With hosting a sporting event in space.

Attention all athletes. There are minor scheduling adjustments.

Space Disc! Is totally cancelled.

Space Swords! Is totally cancelled.

Space Luge! Is also cancelled.

And all other events are pending!

Welcome to your Space Olympics

All the oxygen has run out

And someone who will not be named

Accidentally hit self-destruct

As you file to your escape pods

I'll distract the alien hordes

And as I stare death in the face I know my sins will take me to hell.

You do it for the love

My love

And there ain't no woman that could take your spot my love

  spraaaa said:

...so if you left earth but you were just moving at a walking speed, could you even get to jupiter before you died (of old age)?...

looks like it would take 11,094 years at a good brisk walking rate to reach Jupiter. (if you walked 24/7).

true story.

  mistymountainhop said:

  spraaaa said:

...so if you left earth but you were just moving at a walking speed, could you even get to jupiter before you died (of old age)?...

 

looks like it would take 11,094 years at a good brisk walking rate to reach Jupiter. (if you walked 24/7).

 

true story.

did you include leap years?

woah good fucking find, OP

  Brian Tregaskin said:

 

this might be the most idm pic i've ever seen

Yeah, Ourson is definitely idm. ;)

I love images like this - it is mind-boggling to think how insignificant and small we are when in comparison to the rest of the universe - I mean, a sun so large, it could fart on our solar system and we'd cease to exist. That is, if suns could fart.

  Joyrex said:

That is, if suns could fart.

Solar flare.

  Braintree said:

  Joyrex said:

That is, if suns could fart.

 

Solar flare.

true.dat

Feeling Small? This will help:

Size matters: Condoms too big for most Indian men

  Joyrex said:

I love images like this - it is mind-boggling to think how insignificant and small we are when in comparison to the rest of the universe - I mean, a sun so large, it could fart on our solar system and we'd cease to exist.

would we, or are just too small for us to even realise. like, you fart on germs and they dont seem to mind.

i emailed the picture to some family members and i mostly got back "what is this?" it's small.

me: can you zoom in?

"how do you do that?

errrr

i can't see this, whatever

me: wht/evaer

Really there's no absolute reference point for size. Obviously we just use our own direct everyday experience to judge. We still don't know how big the universe is, really - you could just as easily say that our galaxy is mindblowingly tiny or that VY Canis Majoris is infinitesimally tiny and then if you just change your perspective, your own cock could be absolutely gigantic in comparison to an atom.

I suppose we can only truly gauge size size when we find out how big the whole shebang is. It's easily possible that the entire visible universe is impossibly tiny in the context of everything. I just love how there's no reference, it's brilliant. If you could spend the day as an ant your whole perspective would shift, you would probably start to discard your human perspective and feel that a crumb really is massive.

can someone find that video where it starts in the park with two people having a picnic then zooms out for like ten minutes and you see all the galaxy and then zooms in, goes back to the picnic and then into the person's skin and like looks at their skin cells and shit? i saw it in high school and i can't find it

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

Cool stuff. But if we weren't around to perceive it, would it exist? I mean would it just be atoms n' shit floating around? but the idea of an atom is a human creation, it doesn't really exist. I don't mean to go in this direction, but it's just crazy how small we are relative to these stars, but somehow we are necessary for their existence (or at least necessary for them to perceived).

  essines said:

 

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

thanks!

  LARRY said:

Cool stuff. But if we weren't around to perceive it, would it exist? I mean would it just be atoms n' shit floating around? but the idea of an atom is a human creation, it doesn't really exist. I don't mean to go in this direction, but it's just crazy how small we are relative to these stars, but somehow we are necessary for their existence (or at least necessary for them to perceived).

The universe does not revolve around people. Atoms would still exist even if we didn't know about them. It's the mechanics of the universe, not a philosophy exam.

  Braintree said:

  LARRY said:

Cool stuff. But if we weren't around to perceive it, would it exist? I mean would it just be atoms n' shit floating around? but the idea of an atom is a human creation, it doesn't really exist. I don't mean to go in this direction, but it's just crazy how small we are relative to these stars, but somehow we are necessary for their existence (or at least necessary for them to perceived).

 

The universe does not revolve around people. Atoms would still exist even if we didn't know about them. It's the mechanics of the universe, not a philosophy exam.

quantum physics demonstrate more or less the opposite. things are the way they are because we perceive them. things would be different without us perceiving them. on a quantic scale of course

  Brian Tregaskin said:

  Braintree said:

  LARRY said:

Cool stuff. But if we weren't around to perceive it, would it exist? I mean would it just be atoms n' shit floating around? but the idea of an atom is a human creation, it doesn't really exist. I don't mean to go in this direction, but it's just crazy how small we are relative to these stars, but somehow we are necessary for their existence (or at least necessary for them to perceived).

 

The universe does not revolve around people. Atoms would still exist even if we didn't know about them. It's the mechanics of the universe, not a philosophy exam.

 

quantum physics demonstrate more or less the opposite. things are the way they are because we perceive them. things would be different without us perceiving them. at the quantic scale of course

Actually, no. Those processes would still happen regardless of us testing them. We could measure an electron a thousand times and it will always come back slightly different, but it changes because that's its nature, not because we measure it.

  Braintree said:

  Brian Tregaskin said:

  Braintree said:

  LARRY said:

Cool stuff. But if we weren't around to perceive it, would it exist? I mean would it just be atoms n' shit floating around? but the idea of an atom is a human creation, it doesn't really exist. I don't mean to go in this direction, but it's just crazy how small we are relative to these stars, but somehow we are necessary for their existence (or at least necessary for them to perceived).

 

The universe does not revolve around people. Atoms would still exist even if we didn't know about them. It's the mechanics of the universe, not a philosophy exam.

 

quantum physics demonstrate more or less the opposite. things are the way they are because we perceive them. things would be different without us perceiving them. at the quantic scale of course

 

Actually, no. Those processes would still happen regardless of us testing them. We could measure an electron a thousand times and it will always come back slightly different, but it changes because that's its nature, not because we measure it.

i'm talking about quanta. and what i said is what quanta and their complexity are all about. things at an infinetely small scale act this way. of course VY canis majoris doesn't give a shit if i look at it or not