Earth in True Perspective

[irv]

When I saw this it just blew my mind. Give you a new perspective on outer space.
Earth in True Perspective (http://www.ba-bamail.com//View.aspx?MemberId=835852&emailid=12288&source=mobile_share&)

[mikodo]

13 billion light years away.

One, "Light Year" = 5,878,499,810,000 miles or 9,460,528,400,000 kilometers.

From here: http://www.universetoday.com/65644/how-far-is-a-lightyear-in-miles/

[kostkon]

Nice. The Moon is really small..

[ian-weisser]

I can see my house from here.

[QIII]

I want to go back to my home planet in my home universe. You people here have such odd notions.

But, no. The Overlords say I must stay here in this human form and complete my mission.

Dang it!

[PJs Ronin]

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.... Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[BlinkinCat]

I want to go back to my home planet in my home universe. You people here have such odd notions.

But, no. The Overlords say I must stay here in this human form and complete my mission.

Dang it!

And am I wrong when many of us here on earth just considered you to be a humble donkey ?
That is if you ever get round to reverting your avatar - :p

[Elfy]

I quite liked this one http://htwins.net/scale2/

[oldos2er]

Hadn't seen that one before Elfy, pretty awesome.

[bashiergui]

I quite liked this one http://htwins.net/scale2/ They included all the important stuff on that one.

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[sharathpaps]

The most humbling and favourite picture of the earth for me is that of the Pale Blue Dot. This picture was taken in 1990 by the voyager 1 space probe at a distance of 3.7 billion miles from earth. You can read the Wiki here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot).

I quote Carl Sagan's writing on this picture -

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, 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.

[irv]

Now here is another thought. Let's pretend there is a bird that can fly through space and can fly from one end of the universe to the other. And that there is a rock at the far end that is a trillion miles big in all directions. And that little bird flies the universe from one end to this rock and sharpens it bill and then fly back to the beginning of the universe and he does this over and over again until the rock is wore down to nothing. Only one millisecond has pass in Eternity.
How can we understand space and time?

[QIII]

Imagine a bird that flies at the speed of light across the universe. At the far end is a high rise building a billion miles across with clear glass windows.

Urm. Hmmmm...

OK. So there's another bird ...

[mikodo]

Now here is another thought. Let's pretend there is a bird that can fly through space and can fly from one end of the universe to the other. And that there is a rock at the far end that is a trillion miles big in all directions. And that little bird flies the universe from one end to this rock and sharpens it bill and then fly back to the beginning of the universe and he does this over and over again until the rock is wore down to nothing. Only one millisecond has pass in Eternity.
How can we understand space and time?

All I can state is, that I believe that in reality, that there is no time, (past or future). There is just now. With that, I can "rationalize", forever and immortality.

[irv]

Last night I started watching The Tomorrow People (http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70283262?trkid=13462100) so there has to be future. Right!

[ukripper]

Last night I started watching The Tomorrow People (http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70283262?trkid=13462100) so there has to be future. Right!

I just read "The lost book of Enki", I was amazed at good references to tell a tale and found it as most plausible argument of human's existence as opposed to theory of Evolution. Gives you different perspective of Earth with humans.

You can also listen audio narration on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_f0zUMkyG4

[irv]

All I can state is, that I believe that in reality, that there is no time, (past or future). There is just now. With that, I can "rationalize", forever and immortality.

Now I was only kidding about the tomorrow people. mikodo you are on to something here. I believe like you to a degree. In reality there is only eternity (foreverness) but in the realm of eternity there is a realm of time. Look at it like a box within a infinite box without ends. I won't go into any more details on that but try to wrap your mind around that.

[V3u5nbRjDF]

Neat.

[mikodo]

All I can state is, that I believe that in reality, that there is no time, (past or future). There is just now. With that, I can "rationalize", forever and immortality.

I just read what I wrote. More accurately, I should have said;

I believe that in reality, that there is no time, (past or future). There is just now. With that, I can "rationalize",infiniteness and immortality.

(meaning, time (immortality) and space (infiniteness).

[irv]

I was thinking about the last slide.
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Take everything we know about everything and put it in a box. Then ask yourself the question, How much is there outside the box that we don't know?

[ian-weisser]

An episode of Futurama did that...very well.
In the end, Fry sat on the box, squishing the Universe.

[prisoner8492]

I'm sure this's already been posted numerous times

http://htwins.net/scale2/

[haplorrhine]

All I can state is, that I believe that in reality, that there is no time, (past or future). There is just now. With that, I can "rationalize", forever and immortality.

The present is all that is because "is" is the present-tense conjugation.

Attained moksha.

[Linuxratty]

Truly mind boggling.