Saturday, January 5, 2008

Lil' ol' Earth.

It is exceedingly difficult to wrap the minuscule human mind around the idea of exactly how enormously vast our universe is. It is, indeed, a haughty boast to even call it 'our universe', seeing as how we are but a fraction of a trace amount of its whole. To illustrate this point i present the following video. Watch it if you ever wanted to know our size in relation to Betelgeuse. Also, check out aclevercookie for further images of planetary scale.

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