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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

There's always a bigger, uh, sun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I was just thinking of such a similar comparison today with a similar way of comparing them! (Earth<<Sun<<SagittariusA)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

ok so, this post reminds me, a while ago i archived all of the older Vsauce content, and i binged through the vast majority of it, and i can swear there was a video from him about the scale of the universe, or the scale of things in the universe, but i can't for the life of me find it.

Either it's hiding somewhere, or i'm making some shit up and it isn't real lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's quite possibly somewhere in there. The blessing and the curse of Vsauce videos is that you never know what's going to be inside of it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yeah, that's kind of the problem i'm having lol, doesnt help that his video titles are often a little obtuse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

you got me to rewatch a couple of my favourites and there's a bit about the scale of the singal we send out to space in Messages For the Future. Maybe it was that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

could be, but i remember a video covering the scales of stars either as a focus, or as a reference, including a segment where the earths sun is quite literally too small to see. But i might be making that last part up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not Vsauce, but corridor crew did a video like that.

Or maybe its this from the D!NG channel hosted by Vsauce Jake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it was by a different educational YouTuber. I'm thinking Veritasium.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

that's possible, but vasuce has a very specific video style, i guess i should probably go watch a couple veritasium videos to be sure lol.

The obvious answer is that it's actually something related to "the scale of the universe" which is another really cool project, but i don't think it's that one either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Somewhere in late 2000s I saw one of the most mind-melting GIFs I've seen that compared the Solar System objects to the largest known stars at the time. This kinda reminded me of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This gem also springs to mind

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

THE UNIVERSE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I read it as "stepson" and thought it was a low res picture of pizza. I guess I am a bit sleep deprived.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Good effort. I feel the dream, and it’s so much more. Life ain’t good, it’s a FUCKING lot, and there’s some good. Don’t search, just feel yo. FEEEEeeeEeEl.

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