Roffo
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cant seem to find that thread a while ago which had a link to a site with a picture of the other galaxys and drawings of the size of planets.
was called something like 'how big are your probems' or something..
thanks sorry for ridiclous explanation.
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DannyB
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I have a gif of it, gimme 2 mins il post it.
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Roffo
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cheers. its got like a massive orange planet. really cool
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DannyB
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ok, this should work fine.
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Roffo
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wo...
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chloe16v
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wow i didnt know they was that much up there  
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Robin
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That is so fucking cool
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DannyB
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Yeh its a good job i 'right click save as' alot, a gif for every situation cool though eh.
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Mark Prydderch
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How do you save it and then view it as a gif?
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Bez_SXi
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That's impressive... 
Didn't know about all those that came after the sun. Possibly a silly question but.... How do they find out that they exist?
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DannyB
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quote: Originally posted by Mark Prydderch
How do you save it and then view it as a gif?
Right click>save as> then save it where ever you want as a GIF file.
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Wrighty
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thats awesome
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Roffo
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quote: Originally posted by Bez_SXi
That's impressive... 
Didn't know about all those that came after the sun. Possibly a silly question but.... How do they find out that they exist?
hubble 'scopes etc.. theres a pic somwhere of one of their views. you can see all sorts of galaxys and things. really amazing stuff.
[Edited on 28-03-2008 by Roffo]
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DannyB
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Pretty amazing stuff when its in perspective how small our planet really is.
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Steve X16XE
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It was one of my posts. Give me i min.....................
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Steve X16XE
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Here you go.....
http://www.terriergroup.net/priv/files/keep-things-in-perspective.htm
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Haimsey
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Thats cool 
Marcy Marc 
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_Allan_
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at that last pic on that gif, our sun which to be fair is pretty fucking big but then compared to VY Canis Majoris
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Superlite Ltd.
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BIG
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All Torque
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Canis Majoris is a tad on the 'large' side
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Seany
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christ on a bike! that canis majoris one is huge!
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Superlite Ltd.
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I like LBV 1806-20. I think its the brightest star know, also something to do with sagitarius (like i am)

Wish i knew more, this kinda thing is really cool
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A1EX
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and if people still think we are the only intelligent lifeforms around they need a fucking good slap
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IntaCepta
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very impressive when it's all put into perspective.
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sand-eel
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vy canis majoris is estimated the radius at 1800 to 2100 times solar radii
and would take 650000 years to walk round it
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