Post Mind Blowing Space Stuff
 

The earth is 150 million miles from the sun.
Venus is 28% closer to the sun than us.
Mercury is 61% closer than us.
Mars is about 1.5 times further away than us.
Jupiter is about 5.2 times further away.
Saturn is about 9.5 times further away.
Uranus is about 19 times further.
Neptune is about 30 times further.
Pluto is about 39 times further. (ya, I know, Pluto got expelled)

To put this another way.
Pluto is 5,870,000,000 km from the sun.
Pluto is 5,720,000,000 km from the earth.

*mind blown*

8 Mind-Blowing Facts About Space

http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyM...5933fa79_b.jpg

This is totally mind blowing.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ip_diagram.jpg

In the left you can see the small rectangular box which is them blown up in the middle. Then a small section of the box is further blown up on the right.

Space just goes on forever!

*mind explodes*

Probably my favorite speech from an astronomer, very closely followed by Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" speech.



http://i.imgur.com/GcS31zL.png

This is why I want to be allowed to rot away in the ground when I die instead of being preserved or cremated. It really is a wonderful thought; reincarnation in a sense.

The diameter of the earth is 12,756 km.

The diameter of the sun is 1,392,000 km.
109 times greater than the earth.

The diameter of VY Canis Majoris is 1,976,640,000 km.
1,420 times greater than the sun.
154,958 times greater than the earth.

*kablam*

^^^^
:D

The infamous Black Knight satellite.
https://missiongalacticfreedom.files...iews.jpg?w=540

UFO or space debris?
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/5...apollo16_1.jpg

Yes to both would be my guess - some debris that has yet to be identified.

Yet to be identified? If it was man-made, at one time it was identified.

edit: I should had clarified, man-made space debris, or non-humanoid spaceship.

If only this picture mentioned Betelgeuse one more time...

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/attach...621806&thumb=1

:rofl:

Dude, you're on a role!

Pretty cool raw space footage. Sorta scares me when the (slinky?) comes off. Starts 1 minute in.

Yes, but in its current predicament, it has yet to be properly identified.

Wikipedia suggests it might be a thermal blanket and it does look like it has a flat, bent shape, so that could be a good suggestion.

This is terrifying. Imagine being in space like that AHHH

What happens if you cry in space:

^ reminds me of that NPR interview Terry Gross did with an astronaut who, while in the middle of a spacewalk, had some kind of eye irration and was basically blinded by his own tears. Gravity 2?

Skip to 6:30 for when he actually prepares the food in space.

They must drop and break a ton of stuff the first couple of days when they are back on earth.