Thursday, April 21, 2011

Of white blood cells and stars


"If you brought the Sun down to the size of a white blood cell (7 micrometres), and then brought everything else down to scale, our galaxy, the Milky Way, would be the size of the continental U.S.A."

Source: Tredid on reddit
Picture credit: Michael Richmond
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  1. StevenSeptember 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM

    We are probably all that we will ever know.... so to us, being "all that", is probably correct.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 10, 2013 at 2:42 PM

    Steven, I sure hope you are right. Because as I see it the only way this world will ever have peace is if we have a common enemy outside our own planet. And as we sit now, we are NOT prepared for that war....

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    1. Fantastic Mr. HankSeptember 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM

      we sure ain't!

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    2. UnknownSeptember 10, 2013 at 4:25 PM

      The only way we would be at peace is if we were at war with aliens. That makes total sense...

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    3. :)September 10, 2013 at 4:33 PM

      Smoke enough dope boys?

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    4. UnknownSeptember 10, 2013 at 5:47 PM

      He is kind of right, actually. I know its fictional, but something like "Independence Day" would occur; that is, total and unified cooperation from all mankind in defence of ourselves. HOWEVER, this would be temporary...if we were to win this "Armageddon war".

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    5. Decoy BoySeptember 10, 2013 at 6:36 PM

      Temporary changes, lasting effects. Singularity theory posits that complete meshing of languages or deletion of language barriers will essentially bring the world into a new age by necessity of the technological progress that this barrier-breaking is beholden to.

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    6. EirheadSeptember 10, 2013 at 10:21 PM

      At least there'd be some fucking action. PEW PEW PEW! Be a hero boys!!! PEW PEW! Think of all the technology we'd salvage if we could actually fight it off. I say bring it on!

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2013 at 4:00 PM

    Red blood cell = 7 micrometers. White blood cells are typically over twice that.

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    1. UnknownSeptember 10, 2013 at 5:10 PM

      Yip, I was just about to point this out also, i wonder how accurate the rest is..

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  4. UnknownSeptember 10, 2013 at 4:39 PM

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  5. UnknownSeptember 10, 2013 at 4:40 PM

    @Hristal: STFU! The point was well made in the article. By having to point out an error that, while factually correct, is irrelevant to point intended by the article makes you an insecure, annoying ass who shows an incredible external locus of identity.

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    1. UnknownSeptember 10, 2013 at 4:52 PM

      @Keith Get with the times brah, anti-pedanticism isn't cool.

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  6. tctmartinSeptember 10, 2013 at 4:49 PM

    @Keith wow, you mad, bro? What an overreaction. He's just pointing out a small inconsistency. If you studied biology, medicine etc. you would probably be slightly irritated by it too.

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  7. Decoy BoySeptember 10, 2013 at 6:34 PM

    Hahaha, +1 to relativism/Steven.

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2013 at 7:45 PM

    Until we are not.

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