# For those with inflated egos. Whaddaya think? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220 "2004-06-25T19:02:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/1 "2004-06-25T19:02:06Z")
Wow a good friend just sent me this wonderful link. Please Check it out…who think they are the cat’s meow…or God’s gift to the world…See [here](http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html). I have no more problems 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/2 "2004-06-25T19:10:23Z")
Brings to mind the Animaniacs. > [@Yakko](#): > > It’s a great big universe > And you are small and puny > Just a little spec of dust > About the size of Micky Rooney > Though it’s big and black and inky > You’re just small and dinky > It’s a big universe > And you’re not. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/3 "2004-06-25T19:13:30Z")
I’ve had that dream. There’s usually a lot more screaming involved, though. ---
**Author:** ![Severian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Severian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Severian)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/4 "2004-06-25T19:21:29Z")
Couldn’t they have pointed that thing a nude beach or something? ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/5 "2004-06-25T19:25:30Z")
quite possible the coolest thing I’ve ever seen… well… maybe not EVER ever… but really cool nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/6 "2004-06-25T19:29:32Z")
Personally, it made mme think of the opening sequence to Contact…but I also made me feel really, really good 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/7 "2004-06-25T21:09:45Z")
Seems to me that we are somewhat in the middle between the “macra” and “micro” worlds. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/8 "2004-06-25T21:44:36Z")
Ahhh…and there’s me, right at the center of it all. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/9 "2004-06-25T21:50:22Z")
Where’d they get that picture of the Milky Way from 10 Million Lightyears away? ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/10 "2004-06-25T21:56:58Z")
Timothy Leary took that photo with a kodachrome back in the 60’s… ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/11 "2004-06-25T22:01:22Z")
That site needs some background music: [http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/smworld.htm](http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/smworld.htm) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/12 "2004-06-25T22:03:56Z")
Eh, Monty Python did it earlier with [“The Galaxy song”](http://www.lyricsdepot.com/monty_python/galaxy-song.html). ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/13 "2004-06-25T22:49:30Z")
Quarks are pretty. I was thinking of doing my bathroom in pink. I’d like that picture of the quarks in the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/14 "2004-06-25T23:07:48Z")
Seriously, why would this serve to shrink someone’s ego? All of those gazillions of stars, and only one me, and I can do stuff that those stars never can. I’m feeling special 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/15 "2004-06-26T01:51:27Z")
One of my Profs at Med School did something like that back before 1980. Still cool to revisit that technique, tho. ---
**Author:** ![JRootabega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@JRootabega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRootabega)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/16 "2004-06-26T01:52:37Z")
That’s what I think, too! First of all, anybody who’s read A Wind in the Door knows size doesn’t matter! Second, we know what all of that is supposed to look like and we can’t even freakin see it! That means we rock even more hard tasty nougat. ---
**Author:** ![JRootabega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@JRootabega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRootabega)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/17 "2004-06-26T01:53:54Z")
p.s. - I think I saw Exidor in there. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/18 "2004-06-26T04:02:02Z")
Ooh! Is that fairycake? ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/19 "2004-06-26T04:07:37Z")
It’s Carl Sagan-esque to me. and I like it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220/20 "2004-06-26T04:20:13Z")
Fave Sagan quote: “If there were no other life in the universe, it would be a colossal waste of space.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-with-inflated-egos-whaddaya-think/252220.md?page=2)