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Old 07-24-2002, 05:05 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Want to see something scarry?

Show you just how close we are...


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Old 07-24-2002, 05:14 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Well, Earth is certainly out of harm's way, Mars must get whacked alot, and I think I'll just cancel my plans for a stay on Venus.
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Old 07-24-2002, 05:18 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Bah thats just space junk



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Old 07-24-2002, 05:24 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Yeah, it looks bad, but you gotta consider the scale. All those little green dots are about 1,000,000,000 times the size they should actually appear. What looks like a dense cloud of matter should actually look invisible at that scale.
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Old 07-24-2002, 05:36 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Also don't forget this image is 3d condensed into 2d so what is actually spread out over a huge 3 dimensional space is been flattened
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Old 07-24-2002, 05:46 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Also don't forget this image is 3d condensed into 2d so what is actually spread out over a huge 3 dimensional space is been flattened
True, but most of those objects move more or less in the plane of the ecliptic, so 2D isn't a bad approximation.
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uh huh, okay.
Too close to what?
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