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If the moon were only one pixel.
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If the moon were only one pixel.Posted:

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I sometimes find myself contemplating actually how big the universe is but to be honest it is actually unimaginably vast, words can't even describe it and you certainly can't think about how big it is.

I found this great webpage that shows you distances and sizes of various things in the universe with the scale that one pixel is just under 3500km (which is roughly the diameter of the moon).

I would like to share this with TTG and see what people make of it.

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Wow that's really interesting!
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i was scrolling really fast to the side lol
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Woahly schmoly. Great find!
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Makes you think just how small Earth is aha.
This part here is when it really sank in for me.
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That is simply amazing. It is crazy to think how small we actually are compared to space.
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The part that really boggled my mind.
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It actually makes sense now...
(this was at 117,066,012 km )

Good find though, I mean it's a great mouse workout... plus you're actually learning at the same time.
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Really put into perspective how small we really are. O_o
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This put things into perspective and shows how small we really are, great post.
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We are so small in comparison to other things out there but yet we feel so big if that makes sense
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