Size Matters

[qzzq]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f0xDaBEKR9w <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>***</p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

That was very cool, thanx for the heads up! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[qzzq]

You're welcome. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>***</p> </div>

 

[heyscottie]

What a great video!<br /><br />Although, I admit, I got greedy, and started wishing it also included things like:<br /><br />Comets<br />Larger asteroids (like Ceres)<br />Pluto<br />Sedna<br />Uranus<br />Oort Cloud<br />Distance to close stars<br />Globular Clusters<br />Dwarf Galaxies<br />Milky Way<br />Local Group<br />Virgo SuperCluster

 

[doubletruncation]

I've seen this video a few times, and the fact that they leave off Uranus is a bit confusing to me. I guess they figure that since it's almost the same size as Neptune it doesn't add much to include it (why doesn't that apply to Earth/Venus then?). I can't help but think that it's been overlooked due to its unfortunate name... Poor Uranus, the first planet to be discovered in historical times, but so often forgotten. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[enigma10]

Well. You figure its the last thing anyone wants to see. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"<font color="#333399">An organism at war with itself is a doomed organism." - Carl Sagan</font></em> </div>

 

[qzzq]

Well, here you can download a nice video of Uranus: <br /><br />Huge Spring Storms Rouse Uranus from Winter Hibernation:<ul type="square">If springtime on Earth were anything like it will be on Uranus, we would be experiencing waves of massive storms, each one covering the country from Kansas to New York, with temperatures of 300 degrees below zero.<br /><br />A dramatic new time-lapse movie by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows for the first time seasonal changes on the planet. Once considered one of the blander-looking planets, Uranus is now revealed as a dynamic world with the brightest clouds in the outer Solar System and a fragile ring system that wobbles like an unbalanced wagon wheel. The clouds are probably made of crystals of methane, which condense as warm bubbles of gas well up from deep in the atmosphere of Uranus.<br /><br />The movie, created by Hubble researcher Erich Karkoschka of the University of Arizona, clearly shows for the first time the wobble in the ring system, which is made of billions of tiny pebbles. This wobble may be caused by Uranus' shape, which is like a slightly flattened globe, along with the gravitational tug from its many moons.<br /><br />Although Uranus has been observed for more than 200 years, "no one has ever seen this view in the modern era of astronomy because of the long year of Uranus — more than 84 Earth years," said Dr. Heidi Hammel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<br /><br />...</ul> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>***</p> </div>

 

[doubletruncation]

very very cool! Thanks for the link! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[qzzq]

You're welcome; an oldie (1999) but a goodie. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>***</p> </div>

 

[alokmohan]

Dont forget to include a black hole.Its my residence.

 

[qzzq]

Here's a nice pic of a black hole: ---> <font color="black"> . </font><--- <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>***</p> </div>

 

[enigma10]

rofl <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"<font color="#333399">An organism at war with itself is a doomed organism." - Carl Sagan</font></em> </div>

 

[alokmohan]

Not seeing black hole.Iam not seeing qzzq.Both probably exist.