Comments on: In perspective. http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/ yours truly Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:10:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Nicole http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-2055 Nicole Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:08:02 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/#comment-2055 Showed this to my daughter - she's an astronomy nut - and she loved it. We were watching a show on the Discovery channel (I think) the other day all about the question of 'Where could we live if we screwed up Earth?' In any event, they gave details about the planets that I had never heard (or perhaps I heard them in school but it has been so long that I've forgotten). Like... many of the planets beyond us don't actually have a solid part to them, they are like rolling thunderstorm cloud swirls. Saturns rings are full of huge and super fast flying rocks that would crush us if we attempted to cross... etc.. Crazy stuff. Watched one where one of the moons nearby had a bunch of erupting volcanoes and they could cause things to happen in the planet because a string of lava would flow from the moon to the planet area -- I don't remember which it was (which only shows how old I'm getting and how lousy my memory) but the show was cool! It's really surreal to view exactly how unimportant our planet is in a cosmos that just keeps spreading outward. Showed this to my daughter - she’s an astronomy nut - and she loved it. We were watching a show on the Discovery channel (I think) the other day all about the question of ‘Where could we live if we screwed up Earth?’ In any event, they gave details about the planets that I had never heard (or perhaps I heard them in school but it has been so long that I’ve forgotten). Like… many of the planets beyond us don’t actually have a solid part to them, they are like rolling thunderstorm cloud swirls. Saturns rings are full of huge and super fast flying rocks that would crush us if we attempted to cross… etc.. Crazy stuff. Watched one where one of the moons nearby had a bunch of erupting volcanoes and they could cause things to happen in the planet because a string of lava would flow from the moon to the planet area — I don’t remember which it was (which only shows how old I’m getting and how lousy my memory) but the show was cool! It’s really surreal to view exactly how unimportant our planet is in a cosmos that just keeps spreading outward.

]]> By: Kalle http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-2027 Kalle Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:42:55 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/#comment-2027 Well, the average density of the planet could be insanely low (in fact, I think it *has* to be, or the planet would collapse in on itself, but don't quote me on that), but I think the probability is very high it's got some freaking gravity going on there. Well, the average density of the planet could be insanely low (in fact, I think it *has* to be, or the planet would collapse in on itself, but don’t quote me on that), but I think the probability is very high it’s got some freaking gravity going on there.

]]> By: SixDays http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-2026 SixDays Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:22:16 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/#comment-2026 The ultimate pic would be a crossection like cut of a tree, you know where each ring represents a year of growth, but in instead start with pluto in the middle and continue outwards to Antares. Im wondering if the gravity on Antares is so overly fucking overkill that Im assuming it is, can we ever go there? Pretty nasty if the tip of your pinky weighs in at 6 tons... Maybe we just need Luke Skywalker, motherfucker can land on anyplanet he might choose, after all he's got da force with him :P The ultimate pic would be a crossection like cut of a tree, you know where each ring represents a year of growth, but in instead start with pluto in the middle and continue outwards to Antares.

Im wondering if the gravity on Antares is so overly fucking overkill that Im assuming it is, can we ever go there? Pretty nasty if the tip of your pinky weighs in at 6 tons…

Maybe we just need Luke Skywalker, motherfucker can land on anyplanet he might choose, after all he’s got da force with him :P

]]> By: Kalle http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-2025 Kalle Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:44:15 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/#comment-2025 Tell me about it. Scared the shit out of me, to be honest.. I didn't grasp the size differences until now. Tell me about it. Scared the shit out of me, to be honest.. I didn’t grasp the size differences until now.

]]> By: Stace http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-2024 Stace Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:26:22 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/2007/06/12/in-perspective/#comment-2024 Wow...that is awesome -- and not in the surfer-lingo sense of the word, but in the man-this-universe-blows-my-mind sense. Thanks for sharing! Wow…that is awesome — and not in the surfer-lingo sense of the word, but in the man-this-universe-blows-my-mind sense.

Thanks for sharing!

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