We Occupy a 

Little Tiny Space

p.s. if you dont get it and this stuff is too deep for ya, you can take the beer option

WOW.. i think i need the beer now

Right now, on your computer screen, are approximately 10,000 galaxies.

Each of those galaxies contains anywhere from ten million to one trillion stars.

The average star is roughly a million times the size of Earth.

And yet, with all that junk, the Universe is more than 90 percent empty space.

All of that, in this tiny photo. A photo that took 400 orbits and 800 exposures to take.

And the kicker? The photo covers one thirteen-millionth of the entire night sky.

Wait, It Gets Worse:

So all that **** we just said about how big the universe is (at least 90 billion light years)? Forget it. That?s small beans. The Cosmological Horizon is here to make your day a whole lot more complicated. Since we can only observe stellar bodies that have had some effect on us (usually bombarding us with light), there is an outer limit to what we can see of the universe. Hence, the ?observable universe.? What about the rest? The parts of the universe beyond our Starcraft-style fog of war? Well, according to some math we have no interest in going into, the size of the ?actual? universe is so large that if the universe we just described (the impossibly, mind-bogglingly large one) were the size of a quarter, the actual universe would be the size of the Earth. Daaaaaaaamn.

@trocks69

GK just popped the lid off of his bottle of beer chaing - clinks his beer to trocks beer and GK says cheers to trocks!!

@I-Man

thanks for the added info dude - with all that info you deserve a beer too - I have singha or beer chaing in the cooler which would you prefer.

oh singha I think chum!!!

The Universe; big, isn't it?

: )

GK - tosses a bottle of singha over to I-Man and GK says cheers...

yes it is ....

very interesting

soda - I think it is very interesting too.. in this universe - we are smaller than the bugs in the photos in robs journal - enjoy your day...thanks for stopping by )

Love the description of the Cosmological Horizon as Starcraft-style fog of war

BEER for a dummie KUNNY!

neutron - this is some pretty mind boggling stuff dude I agree

smskun - kunNY I know you get it. you are just playing. you are very smart - smartter than you let on.

Amazing! I had not seen this. Thanks a lot for sending me the link to your journal ;-).