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Benzine - 11/4/08 at 01:30 PM

I never realised quite how small the earth and even our sun is! Difficult to imagine these kind of scales in ones head :/




"If a human could walk on the surface of Canis Majoris – assuming a speed of 5 km/h (3 mph) for 8 hours a day – the person would have to walk for 650,000 years to circle the star (compared with 2 years 11 months to complete the same task on the Earth, and 310 years 7 months on the Sun)"

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[Edited on 11/4/08 by Benzine]


Confused but excited. - 11/4/08 at 06:19 PM

Do they know yet who is responsible for lighting all these fires?
Some of them are quite large.