Quote:Um, that would only be me.  

 

On a more final note, it's looking like ISON didn't completely survive its encounter with our star.

 

http://www.universetoday.com/106842/ison...es-peeled/

 

Just for perspectives sake, ISON was estimated to be around 3 miles across.  It was traveling at 248 miles per second and grazed the Sun at around 700,000 miles distance (we average around 93,000,000 miles).  But what's even more astounding is that it traveled nearly 1 million years to reach its fate; recorded with satellites created by a species that did not exist when its journey began.  Think about THAT. 

 

Go ahead, yawn.     I think it's amazing.

 

 

Quote:Not just you, I will be dvr'ing it as well. I find that stuff fascinating. It's mind boggling just trying to understand just how big things are ( like our star), the vast distances between them, and the speeds at which they are traveling. Way more than that catches my attention. I just didn't hear much about this and didn't know much to post in here. I didn't want to sound more stupid than I be.

 

 

Quote:Nothing uncool about it.

 

Ever look into the sky at night and sit and think to yourself, "The star that I'm looking at may no longer even exist?"

 

It's stuff like that which so many people these days can't even get their brains around. They are incapable of thinking on that scale, and in that manner.

 

 

Have you ever read Stephen King's book "The Gunslinger"? If not, there is a discussion that takes place regarding "size" and how the finite brain cannot comprehend the infinite, even though it thinks it can. Whenever I start into the realm of space and the like, I always think back to that. It's a very interesting perspective.

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