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leicsmac

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4 hours ago, The Bear said:

Yeah it's just a dot compared to some of the supergiant ones out there. 

To illustrate:

 

Star-sizes.jpg

 

Our Sun is the second from the right in panel 3. You can work upward from there.

 

Oh, and this is mildly out of date because the biggest star we've found now is one and a half times the size of Canis Majoris.

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The Bear

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The human brain is unfortunately not designed to fathom the vastness of the universe and how tiny we are in comparison. 

 

It certainly begs the question whether we will ever be able to fully understand it in a way that our tiny brains can comprehend. 

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leicsmac

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16 minutes ago, The Bear said:

The human brain is unfortunately not designed to fathom the vastness of the universe and how tiny we are in comparison. 

 

It certainly begs the question whether we will ever be able to fully understand it in a way that our tiny brains can comprehend. 

Perhaps when we have more advanced machines to help us, maybe.

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On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 13:52, The Bear said:

The human brain is unfortunately not designed to fathom the vastness of the universe and how tiny we are in comparison. 

 

Some people's brains aren't even designed to know which half time substitutes to make at Bournemouth ... let alone, understand the Universe!

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Crew Dragon is set to splash down tomorrow @ 18.42 GMT in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

Just as the Florida weather caused disruption to the launch, Hurricane Isaias has been threatening Florida’s East Coast. Given the track of the hurricane, a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean at one of three approved sites off Florida’s east coast is now ruled out, focusing landing plans on the Gulf where four sites are available off Panama City, Pensacola, Tallahassee and Tampa. Assuming NASA and SpaceX press ahead, a final decision on prime and backup landing sites is not expected until later today. The preferred splashdown zone is just south of Panama City.

 

Assuming the weather cooperates and no technical issues occur, Behnken and Hurley would undock from the station’s forward port around 7:30 p.m. EDT Saturday, spend the night aboard the Crew Dragon and then fire their braking rockets around 1:50 p.m. EDT Sunday for a splashdown in the Gulf around 2:42 p.m. EDT. We have not seen the like since the days of Apollo.

 

 

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