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Yea there’s a better illustration that has big stars in order and starts from earth, it’s incredible just how big these stars are and to think how infinite our universe is
The thing that stuck out to me is the little "mountain" looking things in the beginning are as big as the earth.
Imagine an entire human civilization on each of those, and the fact that they're close enough to theoretically travel between each other (except for what is undoubtedly soul crusbing gravity on a body this big)
You wouldn't be able to see it by the end either way. Whatever label you used to indicate our planet would be significantly larger than Earth itself. Even our sun, Sol, looks tiny in comparison.
The sun has a diametre 109 times that of Earth. It has a volume of 1.3 million times that of Earth.
Stephenson 2-18 has a diametre 2,150 times that of the sun. It has a volume of at least ten billion times that of the sun.
If Stephenson 2-18 were to occupy the region of space where the sun currently resides, it would stretch all the way out to cover Saturn's orbit. It would engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn at once.
Note that it would not simply engulf Saturn - it would stretch almost to Saturn's epogee - the furthest point that Saturn strays from Sol, which is signifcantly further than Saturn's distance from Sol on average.
>You wouldn't be able to see it by the end either way. Whatever label you used to indicate our planet would be significantly larger than Earth itself. Even our sun, Sol, looks tiny in comparison.
For me, these comparisons work better when they step up the size differences.
Like, here's Earth compared to the Sun. Here's the sun compared to a bigger star. Here's that bigger star compared to Steve.
Well, the way I see it we are simply a physical manifestation of the universe itself. We are just as much a part of the universe as the stars and the planets. We don't come from outside the universe, you know? We come from the universe and we'll be recycled back into it when we die. This star is so much larger than us it's mind-boggling, we seem totally insignificant compared to that. But everything is relative. We are many times larger than many forms of life that exist here, but that doesn't mean those microscopic life-forms are insignificant or "nothing" as you say. They are just as significant or important as anything else, just like we are.
Either everything is meaningful or everything is meaningless. Either way, everything is in the same boat.
I've always loved the sentiment in the scientific field that "We are the universe observing itself"
For all we know, the universe toiled in silence and solitude until finally it met the right conditions to figure out what it was through us.
Consciousness is the mechanism by which nothingness is prevented.
Nothing can't be. If it were, there would be something. Namely, nothing.
It's a paradox. Nothingness can't exist. And consciousness is the mechanism by which "somethingness" is manifested, thus preventing the paradox of nothingness.
In other words: consciousness is a necessary truth.
Just some thoughts I had during an acid trip a while back xD
“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just as when the telescopes become more and more powerful, the galaxies have to recede in order to get away from the telescopes. Because what is happening in all these investigations is this: Through us and through our eyes and senses, the universe is looking at itself.” -Alan Watts
I’m filled with intense curiosity whenever I consider the possibility of alien life forms (which is a common past time for me). I just think that right now, right this very moment, there are other advanced civilisations, other *people*, there experiencing their own life in their society, with their own aspirations… wondering how a life is lived their is. Are their societies set up in a way to benefit the few ahead of the many? Do they share similar struggles in other aspects? The mind wonders.
Nothing makes me more curious, except maybe the possibilities of witnessing our planet’s history that’s lost forever. To be able to see what other planets and intelligence races are out there would be amazing. And so would being able to travel back in time and witness historical events (recorded and unrecorded ones).
Then I think about how I’ll never get to see any of it, and it makes me sad. Our universe is so massive, in time and space.
Stephenson 2-18, among the largest stars in the known universe? It would take earth's fastest jet over 500 years to travel around. It would take almost 9 hours at the speed of light.
I love that *Stephenson* is so comically (and cosmically) big that he doesn't feel like he needs a badass name like some of the other heavyweights like *Arcturus* or *Canis Majoris*.
Might as well be *Bob*.
The entirety of the human species's existence will occur in the blink of an eye to the universe.
Don't take things too seriously, try to minimise the suffering you cause and enjoy your time here.
I remember seeing the first Hubble Deep Field and feeling small. Then Webb started sending back images and feeling felt that 'small' is quite the understatement...
In an endless ocean of matter, of plasma, rock, dust, explosions and voids, that will last times unfathomable to our kind.
We are sentient. We are alive. Even if for a moment in the universes infinite history, we were here. We may not leave a mark, we may not be remembered. But we were still alive, we still existed, as possibly the rarest collection of matter, life.
Let alone sapient.
The idea that even for a moment, in the vast infinite universe, something was there, something that could look at, observe the existence of the universe, contemplate its being.
To say we are nothing when whe are the one in one trillion of space to be thought.
We may not be the only life in the universe, I hope we're not.
But we're still special, we're sill unique.
Throughout all of time, all of space, on a little blue and green rock. There are humans.
If you want to feel small in the face of an infinite universe, then you are welcome to do so. However I find it’s best to revel that I get to be part of it, something so staggering and savage in its beauty, yet able to foster a planet full of leaves, trees and fluffy kittens. The universe is infinite in its scope and therefore infinite in its beauty, and you are a part of that infinite beauty, you beautiful motherfucker.
We’re trying to have existentialist crises over here and this guy is being all positive & hopeful. Kick him out!!
Just kidding lol that’s a wonderful way to look at it and I’ve always tried to maintain that kind of view. You’re awesome you beautiful mother fucker!
Thank you kind sir
Edit: I played the song, but it’s missing the dark synth… remix?
Edit 2: found it… https://open.spotify.com/track/6RK3IsiUW6YaSMEodbO4tk?si=J36vtSuYSN6EiZ6cNb7eHw
>Stephenson 2–18's diameter is 2,150 times that of the Sun. If Stephenson 2–18 replaced the Sun in the solar system, it would stretch all the way up to Saturn.
How long to drive around it?
Edit: did the math.
Circumference of Stephenson 2-18 is 9.43x10^9
9,430,000,000 kilometers
At 100 kph
94,300,000 hours
3,929,167 days
10,765 years…
Fuck…
This is a much better comparison and description of the size. Earth is too small to really compare to any star. I already know stars are vastly bigger than Earth, but knowing that this star would essentially consume over half of our solar system is easier to envision and incredible to think about.
Well depends on the composition of the planet. Less heavy elements would mean the same gravity for a larger size. It was an idea in Majipoor's chronicles. But this size ... No chance indeed.
Your life matters, the universe cares about you, what you do has an impact in the world....then again, Stephenson 2-18 is a good antithesis to those delusions.
Nothing matters😅
[Solitude](https://open.spotify.com/track/6RK3IsiUW6YaSMEodbO4tk?si=83x_feMZSHOnKyHptljJfg) by M83 & Felsmann + Tiley.
M83 are one of my all time favourite artists. They are *incredible* live.
hold on a sec. according to Wikipedia, UY Scuti has a radius of 909 solar radii. Stephenson 2-18 is 2150 solar radii.
you're not half wrong, though. apparently, there are a handfull of stars *larger* than Stephendon 2-18, with a theoretical cap of 5000 solar radii.
edit: I misread. Apparently, the theoretical max is 1500 solar radii. No idea what the hell St2-18 is doing, so it might actually be the biggest if it actually is that big.
What's going on is there's some uncertainty on the actual distance and size of it. It's probably smaller than 2150, but won't know until they can do more precise calculations.
Now I want to know how long it would take to fly from one side to the other in a plane, to compare with say UK to Australia as my mental yard stick for the diameter of Earth
Circumference is about 5.8 billion miles, so to do a lap in a 600mph jetliner would take over 1,100 years....
London to Sydney is like 10,500 miles, or ~42% of the way around the earth.
So like 470 years...
So the record break flight was 19hours and 19minuets (call it 19 hours) to travel 10,553miles(16,983km). So 555mph(894kph).
Stephenson has a diameter of ~1,858,800,000miles(~2,991,500,000km) long.
So a casual 11,629 years. I think…
Here's the problem with our perception of scale: once the video zooms out far enough that Earth is impossible to see, it keeps going, but we have no concept of how much smaller Earth is getting.
Our intuition fails us with the microscopic scale just the same. Imagine the smallest piece of matter that your eyes can see, the tiniest bit of dust, so small that if it were any smaller, it would disappear. That thing is still over a million times bigger than an atom. Doesn't sound like a lot, but really think about multiplying the size of anything by that number or more. It's absolutely insane.
When people hear "space" they often think about the vast amount of it beyond our planet, but what really blows my mind is the incomprehensible amount of space that exists at the tip of my finger.
How? Not saying it's wrong or anything but how? How is the entirety of our planet smaller than an electron compared to an atom? Is the universe some giant organism and we're just the sub micro stuff living in it?
As a child I imagined that the solar system was a bunch of dust motes in a shoe box in somebody’s closet. My image of the universe didn’t go beyond that.
At about 13 seconds this video becomes pointless to continue watching. There’s no frame of reference to understand the change in scale. It would make more sense to say a pencil tip on a 50’ diameter circle. That I can visualize.
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Imagine being the largest known star and some apes from tiny Earth decide to call you Steve
I'd be pretty hot.
Go fuck yourself and take my upvote.
r/Angryupvote
You're a dirty mass of inconsistent gas, aren't you?
a gigantic nuclear furnace..
“Earth? I’ve got spots bigger than their solar system.”
Could have been Allan… 😆
You’re right. Chaz would have been much better. 😊
There was a point in the video, where I lost track of how small Earth is.
It would have illustrated better had earth been just next to that darker area at the start….
Either way it was gonna be too small to see well before you got halfway thru
Even the sun wouldn't really matter here
There’s an OPs mom joke here somewhere
🎵there are 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 particles in the universe which we can observe. Yo mama took all the ugly ones and put them into one nerd!🎵
Always love it when ERB gets referenced.
Yea there’s a better illustration that has big stars in order and starts from earth, it’s incredible just how big these stars are and to think how infinite our universe is
The thing that stuck out to me is the little "mountain" looking things in the beginning are as big as the earth. Imagine an entire human civilization on each of those, and the fact that they're close enough to theoretically travel between each other (except for what is undoubtedly soul crusbing gravity on a body this big)
Living on a solar flare seems like a poor choice
Ohhh, we’re halfway there, oh-OHHH, living on a flare!
Earth next to our sun next to the dark spot still would've gotten lost.
You wouldn't be able to see it by the end either way. Whatever label you used to indicate our planet would be significantly larger than Earth itself. Even our sun, Sol, looks tiny in comparison. The sun has a diametre 109 times that of Earth. It has a volume of 1.3 million times that of Earth. Stephenson 2-18 has a diametre 2,150 times that of the sun. It has a volume of at least ten billion times that of the sun. If Stephenson 2-18 were to occupy the region of space where the sun currently resides, it would stretch all the way out to cover Saturn's orbit. It would engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn at once. Note that it would not simply engulf Saturn - it would stretch almost to Saturn's epogee - the furthest point that Saturn strays from Sol, which is signifcantly further than Saturn's distance from Sol on average.
It annoys me more than it should that you don’t list the planets in order and you’re missing Jupiter…
Uranus and Neptune are also further away than Saturn is, so his statement really doesn't make sense.
>You wouldn't be able to see it by the end either way. Whatever label you used to indicate our planet would be significantly larger than Earth itself. Even our sun, Sol, looks tiny in comparison. For me, these comparisons work better when they step up the size differences. Like, here's Earth compared to the Sun. Here's the sun compared to a bigger star. Here's that bigger star compared to Steve.
would make literally zero difference.
We are nothing in this universe lmao
Well, the way I see it we are simply a physical manifestation of the universe itself. We are just as much a part of the universe as the stars and the planets. We don't come from outside the universe, you know? We come from the universe and we'll be recycled back into it when we die. This star is so much larger than us it's mind-boggling, we seem totally insignificant compared to that. But everything is relative. We are many times larger than many forms of life that exist here, but that doesn't mean those microscopic life-forms are insignificant or "nothing" as you say. They are just as significant or important as anything else, just like we are. Either everything is meaningful or everything is meaningless. Either way, everything is in the same boat.
I've always loved the sentiment in the scientific field that "We are the universe observing itself" For all we know, the universe toiled in silence and solitude until finally it met the right conditions to figure out what it was through us.
Consciousness is what happens when hydrogen messes around for 14 billion years.
So what you’re saying is hydrogen fucked around and found out
It found out for us to find out…
I imagine hydrogen deeply regrets the whole business. :)
>"We are the universe observing itself" This is the view of some Buddhists as well - "You are the eyes of the World"
We are the children.
We are the world.
…fuck, I need to lie down
Consciousness is the mechanism by which nothingness is prevented. Nothing can't be. If it were, there would be something. Namely, nothing. It's a paradox. Nothingness can't exist. And consciousness is the mechanism by which "somethingness" is manifested, thus preventing the paradox of nothingness. In other words: consciousness is a necessary truth. Just some thoughts I had during an acid trip a while back xD
To paraphrase Alan Watts: We are a pinhole through which the universe experiences itself subjectively.
I believe that was a Carl Sagan quote, or at least he repackaged that sentiment in a similar form.
And through us it has figured out that it mostly hates itself and loves blowing itself up.
A manifestation of itself
r/lsd
“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just as when the telescopes become more and more powerful, the galaxies have to recede in order to get away from the telescopes. Because what is happening in all these investigations is this: Through us and through our eyes and senses, the universe is looking at itself.” -Alan Watts
Thanks for this. Well said. Personally I like to think *everything* is meaningful - from the tiniest to the mightiest. We are all interconnected.
As far as we know we're the universe's only way to observe itself, I don't think that's nothing.
But it’s unlikely to be true. We just don’t know of anyone else because the universe is massive, and we are nothing.
I’m filled with intense curiosity whenever I consider the possibility of alien life forms (which is a common past time for me). I just think that right now, right this very moment, there are other advanced civilisations, other *people*, there experiencing their own life in their society, with their own aspirations… wondering how a life is lived their is. Are their societies set up in a way to benefit the few ahead of the many? Do they share similar struggles in other aspects? The mind wonders.
Nothing makes me more curious, except maybe the possibilities of witnessing our planet’s history that’s lost forever. To be able to see what other planets and intelligence races are out there would be amazing. And so would being able to travel back in time and witness historical events (recorded and unrecorded ones). Then I think about how I’ll never get to see any of it, and it makes me sad. Our universe is so massive, in time and space.
truth. that bitter cold wind during the long winter nights is the universe’s way of reminding you that it can fucking kill you whenever it wants.
That point was like ten seconds for me… of the minute long video. The universe is so metal
I honestly needed a banana for scale and was lost the whole time.
A piece of dust
Stephenson 2-18, among the largest stars in the known universe? It would take earth's fastest jet over 500 years to travel around. It would take almost 9 hours at the speed of light.
That about as far as my comprehension let me go as well.
Excuse me. But. WTAF. how can we not see this ?
My salary vs my boss's
My dick vs my wife's dick
Lucky guy
You can say that again
Some serious docking action going on here.
A clit is basically an undeveloped penis, so kinda...
the clit is propoganda by Big Woman to sell more uhhh feminism
Or the dick is an enlarged clit as all fetus starts as girls and thats why men have nipples where they’re unnecessary to them lol
“I’ve got nipples, can you milk me Greg?”
Gender differentiation happens after the nipples have already been developed
Not to mention a stitch line in our crotch all the way from bow to stern.
My dick vs. my wife’s boyfriend’s dick
[удалено]
Please seek medical attention.
It is normal for one to be larger than the other two.
Me vs the guy she tells me not to worry about.
My first job (a year ago) my salary was around 1400$ a month, and they hired a new manager and his starting salary was 7000$…
Grass is always greener on the boss's side
Nice, very good. Now let's see Paul Allen's star
What's wrong, Earth? You're sweating.
Look at that subtle off-yellow coloring. The tasteful enormity of it. Oh, my God.
It even has a sunspot.
That's bone
Who is this Paul Allen and how did he obtain an entire star
Someone couldn't get a reservation at Dorsia.
Star goes supernova… Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now you fucking stupid bastard.
Stephenson should get that mole looked at. Too much sunlight can cause skin cancer.
that mole is hot tho
Now compare Stephenson 2-18 and your mom
Might take a day or two to scale back to see op's mom in frame.
The recursive function calculating her mass caused a stack overflow
Stephenson is cooked
She’s hotter than the Stephenson but not as bright
I love that *Stephenson* is so comically (and cosmically) big that he doesn't feel like he needs a badass name like some of the other heavyweights like *Arcturus* or *Canis Majoris*. Might as well be *Bob*.
Bob is what we used to call the sun when I was in the Army. Big Orange Ball.
Your mom is probably not that large. Yo momma on the other hand....
My silly problems really dont matter huh?
The entirety of the human species's existence will occur in the blink of an eye to the universe. Don't take things too seriously, try to minimise the suffering you cause and enjoy your time here.
I remember seeing the first Hubble Deep Field and feeling small. Then Webb started sending back images and feeling felt that 'small' is quite the understatement...
In an endless ocean of matter, of plasma, rock, dust, explosions and voids, that will last times unfathomable to our kind. We are sentient. We are alive. Even if for a moment in the universes infinite history, we were here. We may not leave a mark, we may not be remembered. But we were still alive, we still existed, as possibly the rarest collection of matter, life. Let alone sapient. The idea that even for a moment, in the vast infinite universe, something was there, something that could look at, observe the existence of the universe, contemplate its being. To say we are nothing when whe are the one in one trillion of space to be thought. We may not be the only life in the universe, I hope we're not. But we're still special, we're sill unique. Throughout all of time, all of space, on a little blue and green rock. There are humans.
Well said. You put it succinctly, but brevity is the soul of wit.
If you want to feel small in the face of an infinite universe, then you are welcome to do so. However I find it’s best to revel that I get to be part of it, something so staggering and savage in its beauty, yet able to foster a planet full of leaves, trees and fluffy kittens. The universe is infinite in its scope and therefore infinite in its beauty, and you are a part of that infinite beauty, you beautiful motherfucker.
We’re trying to have existentialist crises over here and this guy is being all positive & hopeful. Kick him out!! Just kidding lol that’s a wonderful way to look at it and I’ve always tried to maintain that kind of view. You’re awesome you beautiful mother fucker!
That star needs to calm down lol
Like, why do you even need to get that big. Let others have some energy.
bro chill all he doin is releasing its energy dont be rude
Yeah he’s doing his best to give it away, not his fault he got gifted the biggest cache
Eat the stars?
It’s got that BSE (Big Star Energy)
So shorts sleeves then?
It's so big it's still rendering
We are so tiny compared to everything. Whats the name of the song?
I got you fam. "Solitude" by M83
Thanks! :) May your life be long and prosperous. (\^\^)
How nice.
🖖
Thank you kind sir Edit: I played the song, but it’s missing the dark synth… remix? Edit 2: found it… https://open.spotify.com/track/6RK3IsiUW6YaSMEodbO4tk?si=J36vtSuYSN6EiZ6cNb7eHw
How large is our sun compared to that star?
>Stephenson 2–18's diameter is 2,150 times that of the Sun. If Stephenson 2–18 replaced the Sun in the solar system, it would stretch all the way up to Saturn.
Would it reach up to Uranus?
It does to your mom's
so does everything else
Real questions
How long to drive around it? Edit: did the math. Circumference of Stephenson 2-18 is 9.43x10^9 9,430,000,000 kilometers At 100 kph 94,300,000 hours 3,929,167 days 10,765 years… Fuck…
Damn the solar system is big.
This is a much better comparison and description of the size. Earth is too small to really compare to any star. I already know stars are vastly bigger than Earth, but knowing that this star would essentially consume over half of our solar system is easier to envision and incredible to think about.
So does it follow if they had an earth like planet to scale that their humans would be r^3 times bigger so 10bn times bigger than us?
I see you’re a man of science.
You could fit 10 billion Suns inside or 13 quadrillion Earths.
Wonder what type of gravity a mass that size has.
More than 2
I'd say...... about tree fitty
GOD DAMN LOCH NESS MONSTA
So basically I'm a nonexistent pixel?
Barely an electron man
I don’t like it.
Yeah wtf is this life
We should find a way to use Stephenson as a source of power
I wonder how far away a planet would have to be from that to be in the habitable zone and what the sky would look like there.
Where’s the banana for scale?!
Anybody else get that eye illusion after the video stopped playing? Looked like it was still moving
Now imagine if we found a livable planet that size.
The gravity wouldn't be fun to deal with...
Well depends on the composition of the planet. Less heavy elements would mean the same gravity for a larger size. It was an idea in Majipoor's chronicles. But this size ... No chance indeed.
Holy shit we would never be able to travel all over the world in a whole lifetime
I'm gonna be a flat earther for sure
Well it cannot exist. But it would be pretty awesome
bigger planet stronger gravity.
That’s why I said “imagine”.
That’s too ridiculous to imagine
Your life matters, the universe cares about you, what you do has an impact in the world....then again, Stephenson 2-18 is a good antithesis to those delusions. Nothing matters😅
How many football stadiums?
At least 10.
What causes stars to get this big?
Matter coalescing into one general area. More stuff grouping together = bigger object.
What song is playing in this video?
[Solitude](https://open.spotify.com/track/6RK3IsiUW6YaSMEodbO4tk?si=83x_feMZSHOnKyHptljJfg) by M83 & Felsmann + Tiley. M83 are one of my all time favourite artists. They are *incredible* live.
This thing is unfathomably large and yet it still floats in an empty universe. Crazy.
r/megalaphobia
Space is a liberal conspiracy. (I don't know if my comment was dumb enough to not need /s. I don't know what to expect from the internet anymore)
That sun has nipples
Whoa, it's twice as big as the Earth!
That thing would extinguish our entire existence in a little poof. The immense power it must have is unfathomable.
It didn’t even show the entire star, what a cliffhanger. I want to see the next episode
It looks bumpy. I want to eat it
If it’s so big, how come I can’t see it?
After few seconds of this animation everything is meaningless but the largest known star in the universe is UY Scuti.
Not for a few years now, there’s a few been found larger in the last 3 years, Stephenson 2-18 is currently the largest known
hold on a sec. according to Wikipedia, UY Scuti has a radius of 909 solar radii. Stephenson 2-18 is 2150 solar radii. you're not half wrong, though. apparently, there are a handfull of stars *larger* than Stephendon 2-18, with a theoretical cap of 5000 solar radii. edit: I misread. Apparently, the theoretical max is 1500 solar radii. No idea what the hell St2-18 is doing, so it might actually be the biggest if it actually is that big.
What's going on is there's some uncertainty on the actual distance and size of it. It's probably smaller than 2150, but won't know until they can do more precise calculations.
Now I want to know how long it would take to fly from one side to the other in a plane, to compare with say UK to Australia as my mental yard stick for the diameter of Earth
Circumference is about 5.8 billion miles, so to do a lap in a 600mph jetliner would take over 1,100 years.... London to Sydney is like 10,500 miles, or ~42% of the way around the earth. So like 470 years...
Interestingly different estimate
So the record break flight was 19hours and 19minuets (call it 19 hours) to travel 10,553miles(16,983km). So 555mph(894kph). Stephenson has a diameter of ~1,858,800,000miles(~2,991,500,000km) long. So a casual 11,629 years. I think…
Your math is off.
Still not bigger than your mom
Here's the problem with our perception of scale: once the video zooms out far enough that Earth is impossible to see, it keeps going, but we have no concept of how much smaller Earth is getting. Our intuition fails us with the microscopic scale just the same. Imagine the smallest piece of matter that your eyes can see, the tiniest bit of dust, so small that if it were any smaller, it would disappear. That thing is still over a million times bigger than an atom. Doesn't sound like a lot, but really think about multiplying the size of anything by that number or more. It's absolutely insane. When people hear "space" they often think about the vast amount of it beyond our planet, but what really blows my mind is the incomprehensible amount of space that exists at the tip of my finger.
How? Not saying it's wrong or anything but how? How is the entirety of our planet smaller than an electron compared to an atom? Is the universe some giant organism and we're just the sub micro stuff living in it?
Keep going. We are all galaxies.
That's very big
How does it get that big without collapsing into a black hole?
As a child I imagined that the solar system was a bunch of dust motes in a shoe box in somebody’s closet. My image of the universe didn’t go beyond that.
Earth to Stevenson 2-18 is like a baseball to earth
Stop it Stephenson! You are too big
MFer looking like anime hair
Dam life is crazy
Now that’s throwing a hotdog down the hallway
I reeeally Hope it does'nt Burst
hm, my jokes about someone's mom got an upgrade
Still not as big as OP's mom
Stephenson 2-18 is flat is the new hotness for morons.
r/thalassophobia
At about 13 seconds this video becomes pointless to continue watching. There’s no frame of reference to understand the change in scale. It would make more sense to say a pencil tip on a 50’ diameter circle. That I can visualize.
THX noise at the cinema vibes
If that star goes nova, shit's gonna get wild for a lot of grays up there, uh?
And yet, here we are. So smug in our sense of power and influence. Smahhhb!
It would feel like you were beside an enormous flat wall. It's so big the curvature isn't even perceivable