# Anyone for the Total Perspective Vortex?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-the-total-perspective-vortex/618630>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 13, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-the-total-perspective-vortex/618630 "2012-04-13T03:04:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-the-total-perspective-vortex/618630/1 "2012-04-13T03:04:41Z")

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> Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving  
> And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,  
> That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,  
> A sun that is the source of all our power.  
> The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see  
> Are moving at a million miles a day…

Cool link:

> **[The Scale of the Universe 2](https://htwins.net/scale2/?bordercolor=white)**

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**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-the-total-perspective-vortex/618630/2 "2012-04-13T15:12:06Z")

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strange… no matter which way I slide the scale, I still end up being the center of the universe

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-the-total-perspective-vortex/618630/3 "2012-04-13T17:23:50Z")

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Hey, I was promised there would be fairy cake!

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-the-total-perspective-vortex/618630/4 "2012-04-15T12:04:58Z")

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Hey, this Cat’s in no hurry, I’ll just slouch about and take in the sights for a bit.

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**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-the-total-perspective-vortex/618630/5 "2012-04-16T14:33:57Z")

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I said this before in the other thread that mentioned this… Where is the “You are here” sign?

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-the-total-perspective-vortex/618630/6 "2012-04-16T17:56:58Z")

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There’s not much there at the small end. I think I saw Ray Palmer go by.

HIV is so tiny.

Interesting that both of Mars’s moons are smaller than Rhode Island.

It really brings home the variability in the sizes of stars and nebulae.

And what is all that stuff outside the edge of the Universe?