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Makes insignificant seem massive...Black Hole Eviction
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Makes insignificant seem massive...Black Hole Eviction


Nov 24, 2019, 7:26 PM

Nothing I've ever read has emphasized how simply overwhelming the universe is. That a star is hurled through the galaxy at over 3 million mph (less than one-half of one percent the speed of light), on a journey of 5 million years to date...and will take another 100 million years before simply exiting the Milky Way is incomprehensibly staggering. And to know there are billions of stars within just our galaxy...and an estimated 2 TRILLION galaxies totaling more stars than all the grains of sand on this planet can't be fathomed.

Just a Sunday night 'wonder moment'. Back to regularly scheduled boredom...oops...programming!
https://scitechdaily.com/milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-flings-star-away-at-6000000-km-h/


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Re: Makes insignificant seem massive...Black Hole Eviction


Nov 24, 2019, 7:38 PM

Space is just too big and weird to comprehend. It’s cool, but even the smartest people alive don’t really understand what is going on out there. That’s why I stick to football.

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Presumably, you aren't lumping the


Nov 24, 2019, 7:40 PM

CFP Committee into the 'smartest people alive' group! ;)

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Yet the creater of it all still


Nov 24, 2019, 7:49 PM

knows you.

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Re: Makes insignificant seem massive...Black Hole Eviction


Nov 24, 2019, 7:50 PM

To me the most mind boggling fact I have ever heard was a scientist that estimated there are 100 stars in the universe per grain of sand on the earth's surface. Wrap your head around that one.... :)

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It's estimated 100 billion people have inhabited the earth


Nov 24, 2019, 8:13 PM

And the Milky Way approximately 150 billion to, perhaps, 250 billion stars. So, there's a star in the galaxy for every soul who ever walked the planet....and for thousands of years to come...not that I'm optimistic of mankind lasting that long! Bottle that!

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And there are more atoms in a grain of sand than there are


Nov 24, 2019, 8:36 PM [ in reply to Re: Makes insignificant seem massive...Black Hole Eviction ]

stars in the universe.......

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um, walking did not evolve


Nov 24, 2019, 8:35 PM

who taught you this stuff?

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Man is a funny animal.....


Nov 24, 2019, 8:48 PM

State these facts, and men are amazed......put a "wet paint" sign on something and they have to touch it..

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i saw an equally mind blowing article about time


Nov 24, 2019, 8:53 PM

Basically if the dinosaurs reached

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Type II civilization and went to other planets


Nov 24, 2019, 8:56 PM

And had technology beyond our own there’s not actually anyway we could tell because of how many hundreds of millions of years ago it was.

Whatever is on this planet in 100 million years will have no idea the extent of our civilization.

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Uh....


Nov 24, 2019, 8:54 PM

Go Tigers, anyway?

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Re: Makes insignificant seem massive...Black Hole Eviction


Nov 24, 2019, 9:15 PM

pffft science. every body knows that crap is made up to scare children.

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Clemson basketball is on at 10:30 but that might


Nov 24, 2019, 9:35 PM

be hurdling toward a Black Hole as well. And will end after a lot of folks bed time.

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Re: Makes insignificant seem massive...Black Hole Eviction


Nov 24, 2019, 10:20 PM



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And yet the average person thinks the universe


Nov 24, 2019, 10:35 PM

REVOLVES around him/her.





I value humility. And it's very rare.






Clemson seems to attract more than it's fair share thereof.

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The definition of awesome!


Re: Makes insignificant seem massive...Black Hole Eviction


Nov 24, 2019, 11:20 PM

All I know is my pants don’t fit very loose any more. I’m expanding faster than the universe.

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