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This will make you feel small?

K man December 13, 2007 15:33:23

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Although the earth is bigger than a four of our neighbor planets (Pluto is not even considered a planet now), as you can see here:

earth bigger neighbor planets pluto planet



Earth is dwarfed in size by 4 other of our planetary neighbors:

bigger neighbor planets pluto planet earth dwarfed 4 planetary neighbors



But when viewed to scale in a graphic that includes the Sun, Earth can barely even be seen as a speck. If you add up all of the mass in our Solar system – the Sun and the planets; the Sun contains 99.9% of the total mass!

add mass solar sun planets sun 99 9 total mass



As big as the Sun is, it’s not the biggest thing we can see in the sky. Look at the Sun compared to some of the others that we can see with our naked eyes:



99 9 total mass sun sky sun compared naked eyes



And those aren’t even the BIG BOYS. Even the biggest star shown above, Arcturus, is reduced to a tiny dot on a graphic compared to some of the BIG stars that are just hanging around in our neighborhood:

star arcturus reduced tiny dot graphic compared stars hanging neighborhood
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  • +9 raves Daisy December 13, 2007 16:33:52
    Daisy

    No

    I really enjoyed that K-man!!! But, for whatever it's worth, I still think that the earth is the most beautiful and interesting planet in all the universe!
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    jplamborn June 28, 2009 02:51:37
    jplamborn

    No

    It's life Jim but not as we know it!!
    Just a quick hello to Daisy. You look fine to me. Like the hair
  • MelShooMooBoo May 21, 2009 01:43:12
    MelShooMooBoo

    Yes

    OHMYGOD. Imagine a tiny little ANT compared to the giant Betelgeuse star. I mean, the sun is only a pixel compared to it. And the Earth is a dot compared to the sun. And an ant would be invisible compared to Earth.... CREEPY!
  • DRILCO1 May 18, 2009 19:29:53
    DRILCO1

    No

    yea that is pretty amazing!!!
  • sbasto3 May 16, 2009 14:44:39
    sbasto3

    Yes

    Might be small - but reckon it's the best!
  • h3lblad3 April 29, 2009 21:51:57
    h3lblad3

    No

    Space is 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.
  • ADEM February 22, 2009 14:40:53
    ADEM

    No

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  • Trevon February 14, 2009 17:39:42
    Trevon

    Yes

    there are way bigger stars than bettlejuice or however you spell it i was at church the other day and they showed a slideshow of the biggest stars and bettlejuice was the smallest of 11 the 11th biggest, canis majoris one was so big that the sun was just a speck when next to it.
  • hhhhhhh February 11, 2009 00:48:15
    hhhhhhh

    Yes

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  • zboi January 03, 2009 19:04:49
    zboi

    Yes

    man i feel like i never existed next to betelguese
  • nathan September 27, 2008 21:59:14
    nathan

    No

    it COULD make me feel small, but think of it this way. stars like these are what you came from. makes me feel large!
  • me September 24, 2008 02:41:02
    me

    No

    The human imgination is not capable of picturing something that big all at once. Saying that something is millions of miles across has no meaning; if it gets to big, it's just a number. Also, this does not make me feel small; I just know that stars are very big.
  • izzy August 25, 2008 00:58:43
    izzy

    Yes

    If these stars/suns are so much bigger how come we can see our sun so clearly and not be able to see these much bigger stars?
  • me izzy September 24, 2008 02:42:17
    me
    our sun is closer. If you hold a quarter right in front of your eye, it will look even bigger than the sun
  • NicoWizard July 25, 2008 02:06:33
    NicoWizard

    Yes

    The smallest thing can undo any living organism and also can be the most simple of things. The best things come in small packages. And as they say Tis a small world after all.
  • amuels July 22, 2008 09:42:16
    amuels

    Yes

    not small TINY!!!
  • sqwim July 14, 2008 22:25:49
    sqwim

    No

    ahh...everythings relative
  • vissia July 08, 2008 07:36:54
    vissia

    Yes

    i feel so small now
  • Maox July 07, 2008 19:14:21 (edited)
    Maox

    No

    "This will make you feel small?" What? Are you not sure whether this will make you feel small? So, like, someone told you this will make you feel small, and now you are asking whether it will? You might want to rethink your wording. Or finish highschool.
  • A.Alaalas July 03, 2008 11:41:41
    A.Alaalas

    No

    If I can conceptualize it, I am big. Ants can not and so are small.
  • matt July 03, 2008 11:19:57
    matt

    Yes

    wow....i am speachless
  • maonorp July 02, 2008 13:09:13
    maonorp

    No

    seen it
  • andre July 02, 2008 12:30:42
    andre

    Yes

    But I thing it's wrong, isn't Antares allot bigger than Betelgeuse?
  • maonorp andre July 02, 2008 13:14:16
    maonorp
    yes, Antares is bigger
  • poteran June 30, 2008 05:04:28
    poteran

    Yes

    betelgeuse, betelgeuse, betelgeuse!!!
  • tfhrtf June 26, 2008 14:17:41
    tfhrtf

    Yes

    yo yo yo man it very BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
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    JamesLite June 22, 2008 14:35:04
    JamesLite

    Yes

    "Earth is big enough for me. I don't see the point in comparing it to other things on an astronomical scale, because it has no relevance to life."

    Because the fact that we consider ourselves so important is laughable in the face of such massive phenomena.
  • lolol June 19, 2008 17:11:17
    lolol

    No

    lolololloollolollollollololollol
  • MrsSofia June 17, 2008 22:26:13
    MrsSofia

    No

    'cause I'm fat.
  • Relentl3ss June 16, 2008 22:43:41
    Relentl3ss

    No

    Pah, Just climb inside the Total Perspective Vortex to see exactly how insignificant you are
  • Icedragon1969 June 16, 2008 20:18:05
    Icedragon1969

    No

    Hey, I'm an astronomer though. :)
  • maonorp Icedrag... July 02, 2008 13:11:20
    maonorp
    cool
  • Darsius June 16, 2008 16:44:23
    Darsius

    Yes

    only because you live on it, daisy...
  • Lana June 16, 2008 11:42:12
    Lana

    Yes

    Wow!
    We're so tiny, and the universe is a huge place..!
  • Fred Smith June 15, 2008 18:28:41
    Fred Smith

    Yes

    Zoom out enough and anything is insignificant.
  • nano June 14, 2008 13:17:24
    nano

    No

    Watch this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    There are even bigger stars than Betelgeuse!
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    Radioactive afikomen June 14, 2008 08:21:34
    Radioactive afikomen

    No

    Earth is big enough for me. I don't see the point in comparing it to other things on an astronomical scale, because it has no relevance to life.
  • +1 raves
    K man Radioac... June 15, 2008 01:52:24
    K man
    Another perfect example of why poll writers deserve the right to delete stupid comments made by stupid people...
  • -1 raves
    ween June 14, 2008 02:43:57
    ween

    Yes

    my penis feels even smaller
  • +1 raves
    K man ween June 14, 2008 02:55:52
    K man
    Another perfect example of why poll writers deserve the right to delete stupid comments made by stupid people...
  • me ween September 24, 2008 02:44:25
    me
    as if it wasnt already small enough
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