# You really aren’t at all as important as you think you are in the grand scale of thin **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 8, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-really-aren-t-at-all-as-important-as-you-think-you-are-in-the-grand-scale-of-thin/223347 "2004-01-08T02:23:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-really-aren-t-at-all-as-important-as-you-think-you-are-in-the-grand-scale-of-thin/223347/21 "2004-01-09T14:07:31Z")
Now, **msmith537** , don’t you think that’s a little biased against zeros? At least, in the binary scheme of things … ---
**Author:** ![NutMagnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@NutMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutMagnet)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-really-aren-t-at-all-as-important-as-you-think-you-are-in-the-grand-scale-of-thin/223347/22 "2004-01-09T14:24:27Z")
> [@](#): > > the Earth would be resented by the diameter of a pea What’s the diameter of a pea got against us!? ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-really-aren-t-at-all-as-important-as-you-think-you-are-in-the-grand-scale-of-thin/223347/23 "2004-01-16T23:56:24Z")
I don’t know how accurate the other factoids are, but Pluto is about one sixth the size of Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-really-aren-t-at-all-as-important-as-you-think-you-are-in-the-grand-scale-of-thin/223347/24 "2004-01-17T00:40:15Z")
> [@x-ray vision](#): > > I don’t know how accurate the other factoids are, but Pluto is about one sixth the size of Earth. The Disney character? Wow! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-really-aren-t-at-all-as-important-as-you-think-you-are-in-the-grand-scale-of-thin/223347/25 "2004-01-17T00:43:55Z")
> [@drm](#): > > That’s not what I get from that at all; considering that all of it revolves around me, i’d say it makes me very important! 😃 And since the whole thing, including **drm** , was created for not better purpose than to amuse me, I’d say I’m in the top 10. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-really-aren-t-at-all-as-important-as-you-think-you-are-in-the-grand-scale-of-thin/223347/26 "2004-01-17T00:45:58Z")
Damn you to heck **Bruce\_Daddy** , I was about to say ‘that’s one mighty big dawg’ I also want to say If I want to know how insignificant I am, I just ask my wife. But I’m not married, so I can’t really say that either. Ho-hum. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-really-aren-t-at-all-as-important-as-you-think-you-are-in-the-grand-scale-of-thin/223347/27 "2004-01-17T00:59:25Z")
> [@UnclePoo](#): > > **Attn: All nit pickin fools!!** > > The subject (unknowingly) took up all of the allowed 36 characters for a title from my paste when I obviously needed 39. (I.E. “k!!”) The “grand scale of think!!”? What does that mean, exactly? 😉 – a nit pickin fool [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-really-aren-t-at-all-as-important-as-you-think-you-are-in-the-grand-scale-of-thin/223347.md?page=1)