Enjoyable website presents the size of space

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Space, the final frontier…

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Space is the Place
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So space is big! Really big…

I was waiting for the style to settle down a bit and start to tell me things I need to know.

Such as the fact that the fabulously beautiful planet of planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion caused by over 10 billion visiting tourists a year that … oh never mind… :roll_eyes:

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Somewhat related on the front of defining exactly how vastly insignificant we are is this video which broke my brain.

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The glaring omission of Nibiru calls the whole thing into question for me.

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But what are they reflecting off of?!

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bSNQz

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This was neat and I give the author full props for this. Though, I was hoping to see some numbers about how large each thing was. Otherwise, it’s just one very large thing and then another.

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Well, TIL that space is vast enough to contain a .fun TLD. Fun!

would liked to have seen
Eris
Maybe an example of a globular cluster
astrophysical jets
Great Wall

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“planet 9” should be the first object shown

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Last slide should have been Jesus wagging his finger and saying “Don’t masturbate.”

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