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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"And that when you watch the sun setting over the horizon, you're not, and have missed it.
Stephen Fry said it, so it must be correct. "
He’s right it takes 8 minutes for the suns light to reach us |
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"Yep, knew that, I counted them all once 
Haha better than counting sheep
Only took me 27 years
You didn’t count all of them then"
I know, those pesky stars kept on disappearing and new ones started, I lost count after 12 years so had to start all over again.
I'm starting on the sand grains tomorrow, I'll start with Southport beach |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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"Check out the Hubble Deep Field video on Youtube. Mind blowing "
Looking up certainly puts a different perspective on things  We have the deep field poster framed on a wall.
A couple of YouTube vids are good too, one of the respective sizes of the planets/sun then going up to the supergiants out there. Mind blowing!
The other starts on our solar system & keeps panning out to the whole known universe (from memory).
Perspective of our own importance & significance in the whole scheme of things can be very cathartic...
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Yep, knew that, I counted them all once
Haha better than counting sheep
Only took me 27 years :-
You didn’t count all of them then
I know, those pesky stars kept on disappearing and new ones started, I lost count after 12 years so had to start all over again.
I'm starting on the sand grains tomorrow, I'll start with Southport beach "
Do it when the tide is in |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
West Wales |
"And that when you watch the sun setting over the horizon, you're not, and have missed it.
Stephen Fry said it, so it must be correct.
He’s right it takes 8 minutes for the suns light to reach us"
When you look up at the stars some of the light you see left that sun when the dinosaurs were still on Earth...
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By *adetMan
over a year ago
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"Check out the Hubble Deep Field video on Youtube. Mind blowing
Looking up certainly puts a different perspective on things We have the deep field poster framed on a wall.
A couple of YouTube vids are good too, one of the respective sizes of the planets/sun then going up to the supergiants out there. Mind blowing!
The other starts on our solar system & keeps panning out to the whole known universe (from memory).
Perspective of our own importance & significance in the whole scheme of things can be very cathartic...
S"
Absolutely!
Carl Sagans 'Pale Blue Dot' does this to awesome effect |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Check out the Hubble Deep Field video on Youtube. Mind blowing
Looking up certainly puts a different perspective on things We have the deep field poster framed on a wall.
A couple of YouTube vids are good too, one of the respective sizes of the planets/sun then going up to the supergiants out there. Mind blowing!
The other starts on our solar system & keeps panning out to the whole known universe (from memory).
Perspective of our own importance & significance in the whole scheme of things can be very cathartic...
S"
Yes it puts everything into perspective |
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Nah I don't think that's it. From what I remember it's to do with the curvature of the earth and certain rays of light on thee spectrum. Or something. And what we're seeing is essentially an optical illusion/phenomenon of what's happened a few minutes before.
It made sense at the time.. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Nah I don't think that's it. From what I remember it's to do with the curvature of the earth and certain rays of light on thee spectrum. Or something. And what we're seeing is essentially an optical illusion/phenomenon of what's happened a few minutes before.
It made sense at the time.. "
The sun is 8 light minutes away in other words it’s light has taken 8 minutes to reach us so you see the sun as it was 8 minutes ago |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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When you look up with the naked eye every single thing with one exception (if you’ve 20/20 & know where to look) is in the Milky Way & all of it with the exception of our local group of planets is another Sun with its own planets orbiting it...
And there are still people out there that say aliens don’t exist. 
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"When you look up with the naked eye every single thing with one exception (if you’ve 20/20 & know where to look) is in the Milky Way & all of it with the exception of our local group of planets is another Sun with its own planets orbiting it...
And there are still people out there that say aliens don’t exist.
S"
Alien life is out there |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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"When you look up with the naked eye every single thing with one exception (if you’ve 20/20 & know where to look) is in the Milky Way & all of it with the exception of our local group of planets is another Sun with its own planets orbiting it...
And there are still people out there that say aliens don’t exist.
S
Alien life is out there "
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"Nah I don't think that's it. From what I remember it's to do with the curvature of the earth and certain rays of light on thee spectrum. Or something. And what we're seeing is essentially an optical illusion/phenomenon of what's happened a few minutes before.
It made sense at the time..
The sun is 8 light minutes away in other words it’s light has taken 8 minutes to reach us so you see the sun as it was 8 minutes ago "
No. I get your logic. But this is taking that into account. Its a mirage to do with the light from the sun in those moments hitting our part of the earth at a shallow angle combined with air pressure making the light bend. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Nah I don't think that's it. From what I remember it's to do with the curvature of the earth and certain rays of light on thee spectrum. Or something. And what we're seeing is essentially an optical illusion/phenomenon of what's happened a few minutes before.
It made sense at the
The sun is 8 light minutes away in other words it’s light has taken 8 minutes to reach us so you see the sun as it was 8 minutes ago
No. I get your logic. But this is taking that into account. Its a mirage to do with the light from the sun in those moments hitting our part of the earth at a shallow angle combined with air pressure making the light bend. "
You’ve lost me now |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes and around those stars there are planets, so just imagine the posibilities of there being another planet with life on it.. Considering our sun is an average star. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world
And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe... "
Are we going quauntum now |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
West Wales |
"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world
And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe... "
The Highwayman by The Highwaymen
Have a listen on YouTube if you don’t know it
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world
And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe...
The Highwayman by The Highwaymen
Have a listen on YouTube if you don’t know it
S"
Sounds like a song by Adam and the ants |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world
And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe...
The Highwayman by The Highwaymen
Have a listen on YouTube if you don’t know it
S
Sounds like a song by Adam and the ants "
“Stand & use a telescope, look into the past”
Not quite got the same ring to it
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world
And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe...
The Highwayman by The Highwaymen
Have a listen on YouTube if you don’t know it
S
Sounds like a song by Adam and the ants
“Stand & use a telescope, look into the past”
Not quite got the same ring to it
S"
Haha fair point |
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