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I'll just leave this here for you. . . https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Comparison_of_planets_and_stars_%28sheet_by_sheet%29_%28Apr_2015_upd

• simplemath 10y ago
  Ill just leave THIS here for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNDao7m41M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNDao7m41M
  • sevensor 10y ago
    Thanks to you, and to the GP. I do enjoy the analogies! I think the absolutely brain-crushing thing about objects of astronomic magnitude is trying to reverse the log-transform we use to make sense of them. For me it produces a sense of vertigo, like standing at the top of a cliff.
  • hexagonc 10y ago
    Okay. . . (humbly slinks away with tail between his legs)
    • simplemath 10y ago
      that video totally blows my mind, i must have watched it a dozen times.
      • hexagonc 10y ago
        Yeah, it's pretty damn epic.