Sunday, October 18, 2009

Really BIG and Really far away

The Diameter of our galaxy, The Milky Way, is approximately 100,000 LIGHT YEARS

A LIGHT YEAR is the distance light travels in one year

LIGHT TRAVELS AT 186,000 A SECOND

THERE ARE 31, 557, 600 SECONDS IN A YEAR...yes that is 31 Million!

WHICH MEANS ONE LIGHT YEAR IS MORE THAN 5 TRILLION MILES

100,000 X 5 TRILLION = SOMETHING BEYOND 586 QUADTRILLION MILES

ACTUAL DIAMETER SIZE OF OUR GALAXY 586,971,360,000,000,000

THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE IS TAKING PICTURES OF OTHER GALAXIES

THE CLOSEST SUN TO OUR SUN IS ALPHA in CENTAURI WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY
25 TRILLION MILES AWAY FROM OUR SUN

When one stops for a mere second to contemplate the size of the Universe it's very easy to laugh at the human interpretations of almost everything having to do with ANYTHING.

Seriously funny

Especially those interpretations that have to do with religion....

....ALWAYS REMEMBERING THAT RELIGIONS MIGHT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHO AND WHAT GOD REALLY IS

Seriously funny

Michael Timothy McAlevey


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

nice post. I have been tripping on this all year. kinda consumed me out of the blue...

-seamus