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Woodman
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posted July 28, 2017 07:35 PMHide Post
It's beyond me. I'll stay on my sofa. Pass the Cheetos, please.
 
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BrianC
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posted July 28, 2017 07:43 PMHide Post
We're like one grain of sand in the Gobi Desert.

I think I'll have a drink now.


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6guns
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posted July 28, 2017 08:04 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by Woodman:
It's beyond me. I'll stay on my sofa. Pass the Cheetos, please.


If the earth were the size of a Cheeto.... Wink



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Sir Guy
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posted July 28, 2017 09:34 PMHide Post
This is a similarly eye-opening video about fundamental forces of nature. Richard Feynman was a great mind and wonderfully articulate and funny to boot!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

If the link doesn't work, search for "Richard Feynman magnets."
 
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46and2
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posted July 28, 2017 10:20 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
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Originally posted by 46and2:
If the nucleus of a single Hydrogen atom was the size of a Softball, and its lone electron was the size of a baseball, they'd be more than a mile apart... The amount of "space" in everything (diamonds, ice, our bones, steel, everything...) is nearly incomprehensible.

And that nothing touches. Repulsive force sees to that.
I tell people, you think you're touching the keyboard? Nothing is solid.
It's an illusion.

The only time matter touches is in the center of a black hole.

It is an amazing thought, that you can't even touch yourself or your loved ones, ever.

Close, almost, but never just the same.
 
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TigerDore
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posted July 28, 2017 10:26 PMHide Post
Excellent video. I am sharing with my kids. Thanks for posting this!
 
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posted July 28, 2017 10:47 PMHide Post


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6guns
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posted July 28, 2017 11:26 PMHide Post
^^^ More amazing



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tigereye313
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posted July 28, 2017 11:30 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by 6guns:
^^^ More amazing


Even before getting to the larger stars, all of the other planets in our solar system could be lined up side by side in the space between the Earth and the Moon with room to spare.
 
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