Look at this persons twitter account to put things into perspective and realise how miniscule we are
https://twitter.com/physicsJ
Best analogy I've seen for a mind boggling fact.
Another is infinity, you can see this if you hold a mirror in front of a mirror and look down the tunnel of reflections.
WOW! Just WOW!!! :huh:
The thing about handling a piece of nose shield from the space shuttle which has been heated to
2100 degrees with bare hands is quite something
What a amazing product but ultra fragile !!!!!
What's the chances of the moon being so positioned that it is exactly the same size as the sun at the time of a total Solar eclipse, infinitesimal....
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-three million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." – Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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Great reply
Excellent Pault. I will be following Dr.James from now.
Even during quarantine we're all travelling. Go to visit James for a summary of your velocities in the universe relative to some nearby cosmic markers. Nothing is truly at rest ...heh forum browsers :blank: