Sunday, August 2, 2009

Weaklings

The mean average of the human height is only 167 cm (0,1 m/0,001 km/1 x 10^-2 km).

The normal size for a house is about 5-6 meters tall (0,005 km).

The tallest building in the world, The Burj Dubai, is 818 m (0,8 km).

The exosphere is at 600 km.

The geostationary orbit (the needed height for a man-made satellite to keep up with the rotation of the Earth) is on approx. 35,786 km high above sea-level, according to the Clarke Orbit.

The moon is at 405,169 km from Earth.

The nearest star from Earth, the Sun, is at 1 AU (1.518 x 10^8 km - in easier terms = 151,800,000,000 km).

Uranus, the current outermost planet of the whole solar system, is at 19.4 AU or 2.902 x 10^9 km).

The distance from Earth to the nearest star - other than the Sun - Proxima Centauri, is at 4.218 light years, or, in easier mathematical terms, at 3.991 x 10^13 km. Or if you still can't grasp this, it is 39,910,000,000,000,000 km from Earth.

The faintest star that can be observed through the Hubble Space Telescope is at NGC 6397, which is near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, is at 7.2 kilo-light-years (7.200 light years - 2.2075300354 kpc (kiloparsecs) - 6.812x10^16 km (kilometers)) from Earth. The light is so faint that it is the equivalent of the light emitted by a birthday candle on Moon, as seen by an average-sized man on Earth.

The Virgo Galaxy Cluster, the farthest Galaxy Cluster where the current farthest stars are present, is at a distance of approximately 59 ± 4 million-light-years (18.0 ± 1.2 Mpc - 5.582 x 10^20 kilometers - 5.582 x 10^23 meters) away in the constellation Virgo.

When I wrote this, I could not stand how incredibly and - I am looking for words - stupidly small we are. Now at this point, for some of you human weaklings who still have some arrogance left in your dire minds, please compare the data below.

558,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 meters with 0,1 meter.

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