[Science!] Biggest Thing Ever

Yonkers · Jan 16, 2013

This is from Houston Chronicle Science Guy blog trying to give you some perspective on how big that is

First, let’s understand what a light year is. I know what you’re thinking, duh, Eric, it’s the distance light travels in a year. Yes, that’s true. But can you comprehend how far a light year is?

The closest star system to our Sun is Alpha Centauri, which is just over 4 light years from Earth. Richard Obousy, president of Icarus Interstellar, has a good analogy to help understand this. If Earth were in Orlando, and Alpha Centauri were in Los Angeles, NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft, the most distant manmade objects, which are well beyond the orbit of Pluto, have traveled just one mile.

So a light year is really, really far. And this quasar cluster is 4 billion of them. Let’s take this one step further.

If one end of the quasar cluster is in Houston, and the other end is in Tokyo, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft would have traveled less than the diameter of a human hair between here and there.

Conversely, if you were to hop in the X-43, the world’s fastest airplane, which travels as Mach 9.6, it would take you approximately 40 trillion years to fly across this quasar cluster. Or approximately 10 years for every single fish in the world’s oceans.
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coachbadlee · Jan 16, 2013

Salvy said: ↑

Dont think there are any buses willing to go there...
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Maybe he could take a pla.......oh yeah.

bigtexxx · Jan 16, 2013

Defies scientific theory....quasar cluster is "challenge to our current understanding," astronomer says.
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just goes to show that science doesn't know schit in the grand scheme of things.

just scratching the surface in terms of scientific knowledge

rocketsjudoka · Jan 16, 2013

A rocket isn't an airplane.

#BEWELL

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