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25-02-2012, 09:16 PM
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Size of the Universe
A friend of mine emailed this to me today.
Amazing!!
http://htwins.net/scale2/
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25-02-2012, 09:20 PM
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That is excellent JJ
and it's only the 3rd time a thread has been done about it
But it is good to bring it to everyone's notice again.
The other threads are buried and gone in here somewhere probably never to be seen again
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Very cool!
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I thought that's was what
Cook was measuring
in the 1700's.
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25-02-2012, 09:58 PM
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LOL I had a feeling it had been posted before.
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26-02-2012, 12:06 AM
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Ok. That was AWESOME and my mind is officially BLOWN! Thanks!
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26-02-2012, 12:37 AM
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Gobsmackingly good
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26-02-2012, 09:44 AM
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I don't care that it's been posted before - I've never seen it. Thanks for sharing!!
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26-02-2012, 12:47 PM
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Thanks jjj
It really shows we are a long way off from ever proving (seeing) the core string building blocks!!!!!!
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26-02-2012, 01:24 PM
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I've never seen that before,
Big hooray for resurrecting old posts, aye.. what a goody!
Thanks Nettie.
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27-02-2012, 10:15 AM
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Yep, space is big, really big.
Good value JJJ
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27-02-2012, 10:22 AM
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...... 'You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is.'.......
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28-02-2012, 07:58 AM
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I keep this bookmarked, and pull it out when someone needs some perspective.
Hasn't failed yet!
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