It's a small world

Puts your insignificant lives into perspective doesn't it

I'd seen the first three of these pictures before but the last few are news to me and OMG .... I had no idea our sun was so weeney!

BB

They make you look "insignificant" only because you rank them by SIZE not by COMPLEXITY.
If you were to rearrange everything by COMPLEXITY, not only would the EARTH be the biggest player on the block, the human heings which inhabit the Earth would be the biggest players of all.

The human being,especially the human mind, is the most complex object yet discovered in the known Universe!
Antares doesn't know how big it is: We know more about Antares than Antares does!

Quote:
"It is not too much to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star" (Arthur Eddington 1926)

If you were to rearrange everything by COMPLEXITY, not only would the EARTH be the biggest player on the block, the human heings which inhabit the Earth would be the biggest players of all.

Hmm... if you grade things by biological achievement then I'm afraid that bacteria have us beaten hands (or should that be scillia!) down Bacteria are far more successful, biologically, than any other life form on the planet - they can even survive in space without a space suit!

Phil.
(host to billions of bacteria... and that's after I've showered!)

Hmm... if you grade things by biological achievement then I'm afraid that bacteria have us beaten hands (or should that be scillia!) down Bacteria are far more successful, biologically, than any other life form on the planet - they can even survive in space without a space suit!

And to put that into perspective, have a look at this diaram:

Based on work in 1990 using sRNA to chart a more realistic 'tree of life' diaram than the plants and animals branches we saw in school.

The two groups on the left are entirely microbial. The one on the right is mostly microbial, with our 'macro' world being represented by 'plants' 'animals' and 'fungi'.

As for the size of the Sun. I think its more like a normal star whereas the giants and supergiants are the freaks. At least the sun will last longer than the 'live fast die young' giants!

Cheers,
~Al

Thats some representation of perspective - our Sun sucks big time!