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Uploaded by on Jul 24, 2008

Size comparison from Earth to Canis Majoris

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  • Chuck Norris uses Canis Majoris as a Golfball

  • keep religeon out of this, kthxbi

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  • @comic4relief A planet has to be spherical by it's own gravity.

  • @ThatGuyOverThere123 I get what your saying, but we can see and feel these things in action.

  • ^^^^^^^

    Gods are made up, The Creator of all things is beyond anything you can fully comprehend because he made you; from nothing he created you which is why loves you. He is love, the entire idea of love, the feelings of love, not the word "love" with all its connections to our society, but the original true love.

  • tell me why it happened then

  • ahhhhh bueno! excelente video

  • @spinboy777 With all due respect for your opinion, I must heavily disagree.

    While Christian convictions do require faith in things unseen, science also requires a large measure of faith, doesn't it? We cannot see gravity, wind, or magnetic energies, yet people base their lives on these invisible forces. In fact, the carefully designed rules of the universe are what make science so reliable.

    Anyway, I don't want to have an opinion fight, but I just wanted to share my side.. After 2 Years :P

  • Very spectacular but not entirely accurate in proportions. Starting from Sirius that, in this clip, looks a whole lot bigger than it is in reality. It is about twice the sun's diameter. But in the clip it seems at least 5 times bigger. Even VY Canis Maioris looks way bigger than 2600 solar diameters.

    Anyways, it's a cool clip

  • @comic4relief you are right certainly, big does certainly not mean "most significant" indeed earth may be more significant, as so far it is the only place we know that has life. However, it is fascinating as it gives us a perspective of how minute we are in the universe, the size of which we struggle to fathom. Whatever way you look at it, we will guage significance from a human point of view, and we are bizarrely interested in huge things, and those we struggle to visualise.

  • What is the most massive star known? vy canis majoris is not a main sequence star so has puffed up to a massive diameter. I believe it is "only" around 40 solar masses, which as far as I am aware is far off being the most massive star.

  • How big is big? If one were a microbe, Earth would seem really big. Which is more "significant", a cute little baby who might grow up into an Einstein or a Mozart, or a big dumb rock? Is the rock more significant just by virtue of its being bigger? Vy Canis Majoris is big; Earth is relatively smaller in visible dimension. So what?

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