A little bit of perspective on size. Big is relative.

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This video does a good job at putting the size of our planet in perspective.

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[+3] - Robert Gentel - 09/22/2008Yeah, but as you may imagine it doesn't fit on your screen: http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/index.html I've always liked the...

@Robert Gentel,

Wow.

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@ossobuco,

nice i embedded that on my myspace page for my friends. lol

i r teacher thru myspacez.

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@OGIONIK,

do you go to reddit robert?

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@OGIONIK,

They are one of my many RSS feeds.

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@Robert Gentel,

But...who really needs a star that big? I mean...what would you DO with it?

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@Robert Gentel,

Cool Robert. Have you ever found one adequately shows just how much empty space there is in the solar system and between different stars systems?

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@hingehead,

Yeah, but as you may imagine it doesn't fit on your screen:

http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/index.html

I've always liked the "Thousand Yard Model" using a peppercorn to put the distance into perspective.

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@Robert Gentel,

Hey thanks for the link, that is so cool!

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"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

according to the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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@Robert Gentel,

Here's an image showing the relative sizes of planets and stars:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/llamaboy2/mwuzwh.jpg

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A little bit of perspective on size. Big is relative.

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