Stupid ol' sun. What a dick.

It doesn't want you to forget which one of those 100 billion stars is bringing home the bacon

The sun is a jealous bitch.

The sun's all: YO HEY HEY GUYS WHATCHA DOING HEY CAN I JOIN YA?

perfect for dick cameo week

Fucking yellow bastard.

"You might say that each and every one of us is a crewmember here on 'SPACESHIP EARTH'".

When can we say that?

Some might say we're sailing 'pon milky seas, sails to the solar winds.

we're that spec of dust over in the corner.

+k

because the little things matter also. :]

i still think black holes are some unknown superdense form of matter we haven't discovered, as I have no idea how 'holes in the fabric of space' are supposed to grow from absorbing matter and combine into larger ones when two colide and somehow evaporate over time.

also, i'm talking out my ass, but...meh.

I downloaded some videos on black holes from empornium.us the other day. Interesting stuff.

let the professionals worry about that, solro

Solro, I'm pretty sure you are right about black holes. From my understanding the term Black Hole is somewhat of a misnomer, and was really coined back in 1971 for the reason that no light can escape from it, not the presence of an actual hole. It's got a similar concept to a neutron star, a superdense collapsed star that pulls in matter and looks dark due to the absence of light escaping it.

Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.

There's a good book out now called "The Black Hole War" by Leonard Susskind that covers the basics pretty well. The point is that when a body of matter compresses past a certain density, the escape velocity at its surface exceeds the speed of light, making the body an inescapable gravity well - this in turn causes the body itself to suffer a runaway collapse into a singularity, as the force of gravity overwhelms the forces that would ordinarily push the subatomic particles of the body apart. It's not a literal "hole in the universe" but it's hard to describe it without resorting to that kind of metaphor. When they were first described by a couple of theoretical physicists back in the 1800s they were called "dark stars" - this was long before anybody had actually seen one or really grasped the physics of them, however.

BTW, cool video.

whoops, not 1800s. *1700s*. Google "Michell-Laplace".

I see what you did there.

Also, 5 stars. Jaw-Droppingly beautiful. It makes me wish i could go on fantastic space adventures even more.

Bullshit.

GIVE ME ALL THE AWESOME SCIENCE YOU CAN, NATURE. I CAN HANDLE IT.

Sounds like something from a letter from a Civil War Veteran.

Only when we all agree to go, can we all go. So said an acid trip one time when thinking about how we could harness Man. Most of the guys agreed. We ain't gettin' anywhere till y'all say it's time to throw money at getting off this mudball.

It's from Call of Cthulu by H.P. Lovecraft.

A+++++ quote