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Post by malewithatail on Nov 15, 2023 12:20:47 GMT 10
If the Earth were a green pea, what size in comparison would be the largest star known? The largest star known (when I last checked) is UY Scuti, a red super-giant that has a diameter of approximately 2.4 billion kilometers. Diameter of Earth is 12,756 km - so UY Scuti is about 2 million times larger. Peas (according to several sources) measure between 4 and 8 millimeters. So - what do we know of that’s 8 to 16 million millimeters in diameter? So that’s between 8 and 16km. Mount Everest is 8.84 km tall so - the diameter of UV Scuti would be somewhere between the height of mount Everest…and about twice that high.
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Post by bug on Nov 18, 2023 7:34:16 GMT 10
Stephensen 2-18 is the largest one known now. Though these things are so tenuous they are almost a vacuum at thier edge.
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Post by malewithatail on Nov 18, 2023 12:11:39 GMT 10
It also depends on how you measure it, the wavelengths of light and so on. Either way, its a big one !
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Post by Beno on Nov 18, 2023 14:01:37 GMT 10
At 2.4 billion km diameter and if it were a planet, a jet flying 800kph would need to fly non stop for 1076 years to travel around it.
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Post by bug on Nov 19, 2023 9:27:44 GMT 10
At 2.4 billion km diameter and if it were a planet, a jet flying 800kph would need to fly non stop for 1076 years to travel around it. I see you have flown Jetstar. Lucky the flight wasn't cancelled. |
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Post by Joey on Nov 19, 2023 11:58:23 GMT 10
It's amazing how small we are in the universe, yet we are always hellbent on self-destruction, greed, corruption and war.  |
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Post by frostbite on Nov 19, 2023 12:48:01 GMT 10
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Post by bug on Nov 19, 2023 15:42:06 GMT 10
I honestly hope there are no intelligent aliens out there, because we have just spent the last 70 years broadcasting movies about how we will fight them.
If we received a signal from space with thousands of different depictions on how those aliens might kill us, first contact wouldn't be a peaceful one.
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Post by Stealth on Nov 20, 2023 13:34:15 GMT 10
Could go the other way. Could be another Galaxy Quest situation.
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Post by frostbite on Nov 20, 2023 14:00:42 GMT 10
What could aliens do to us that our own government hasn’t already done?
Lock us in our homes, or prevent us from travelling more than 5km, forcibly inject us with an unknown drug, prevent us from earning a living, or confiscating most of the fruits of our labour?
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Post by norseman on Nov 20, 2023 15:33:22 GMT 10
What could aliens do to us that our own government hasn’t already done? Lock us in our homes, or prevent us from travelling more than 5km, forcibly inject us with an unknown drug, prevent us from earning a living, or confiscating most of the fruits of our labour? Tell you which day, which suburb and which partner you can have sex with this week! Look in your shopping bag and tell you what's essential and what's not etc etc! |
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Post by bug on Nov 20, 2023 18:14:02 GMT 10
If they want to take a hostage to ensure we stay 'peaceful', I'd be happy to send them Daniel Andrews.
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Post by Joey on Nov 20, 2023 19:09:54 GMT 10
What could aliens do to us that our own government hasn’t already done? Lock us in our homes, or prevent us from travelling more than 5km, forcibly inject us with an unknown drug, prevent us from earning a living, or confiscating most of the fruits of our labour? The aliens will offer us free involuntary "probes" At least they won't tax us as hard as we get taxed now |
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Post by spatial on Nov 21, 2023 11:45:36 GMT 10
What could aliens do to us that our own government hasn’t already done? Lock us in our homes, or prevent us from travelling more than 5km, forcibly inject us with an unknown drug, prevent us from earning a living, or confiscating most of the fruits of our labour? The aliens will offer us free involuntary "probes" At least they won't tax us as hard as we get taxed now What is the fascination with aliens and probes, they will be able to see everything inside us with just a scan. For a society to advance that far to get to long-distance space travel, they will be far superior and peaceful, They would intervene and all wars would be stopped. No need to steel our recourses as there is unlimited resources in the universe. |
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Post by Stealth on Nov 21, 2023 15:05:52 GMT 10
Who doesn't like a good probin'?  |
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Post by malewithatail on Nov 22, 2023 17:17:08 GMT 10
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Post by bug on Nov 24, 2023 8:36:49 GMT 10
I think we need a new name for these things. The term "conspiracy theory" in recent time has come to mean "something the government is lying about and doesn't even care that it will be shown to be true in 6 months time." So it doesn't suit gargage like this. Even the smallest of satellites can be seen and tracked with a backyard telescope. Astronomy software like Stellarium will even tell you where satellites are and when you can see them. |
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