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Old 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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Old 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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Old 25-02-2012, 09:41 PM
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Very cool!
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Old 25-02-2012, 09:56 PM
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I thought that's was what Cook was measuring in the 1700's.
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Old 25-02-2012, 09:58 PM
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LOL I had a feeling it had been posted before.
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Old 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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Old 26-02-2012, 12:37 AM
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Gobsmackingly good
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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 27-02-2012, 10:15 AM
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Yep, space is big, really big.

Good value JJJ
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Old 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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Old 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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