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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South of Ipswich

And the Sahara

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No

No, I didn’t

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port

Yep, knew that, I counted them all once

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

There are 200 billion stars in our own galaxy and they reckon now that there are 5 times as many planets

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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago

West Wales

Also that in all the episodes of Star Trek they never left the Milky Way as Roddenberry knew the distances involved made it impossible.

S

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South of Ipswich

Check out the Hubble Deep Field video on Youtube. Mind blowing

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Yep, knew that, I counted them all once "

Haha better than counting sheep

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port


"Check out the Hubble Deep Field video on Youtube. Mind blowing "

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax

And that when you watch the sun setting over the horizon, you're not, and have missed it.

Stephen Fry said it, so it must be correct.

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax

So therefore the Millennium Falcon must be much slower than the Enterprise, right?

Lucas was dealing in ancient technology, despite boasts about thee Kessel run..

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port


"Yep, knew that, I counted them all once

Haha better than counting sheep "

Only took me 27 years

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"And that when you watch the sun setting over the horizon, you're not, and have missed it.

Stephen Fry said it, so it must be correct. "

He’s right it takes 8 minutes for the suns light to reach us

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By *rotic-TouchTV/TS
over a year ago

doncaster

Yes

Bunty X

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Yep, knew that, I counted them all once

Haha better than counting sheep

Only took me 27 years "

You didn’t count all of them then

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

Have you counted the sand grains and the stars?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Have you counted the sand grains and the stars?"

Still counting

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port


"Yep, knew that, I counted them all once

Haha better than counting sheep

Only took me 27 years

You didn’t count all of them then"

I know, those pesky stars kept on disappearing and new ones started, I lost count after 12 years so had to start all over again.

I'm starting on the sand grains tomorrow, I'll start with Southport beach

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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago

West Wales


"Check out the Hubble Deep Field video on Youtube. Mind blowing "

Looking up certainly puts a different perspective on things We have the deep field poster framed on a wall.

A couple of YouTube vids are good too, one of the respective sizes of the planets/sun then going up to the supergiants out there. Mind blowing!

The other starts on our solar system & keeps panning out to the whole known universe (from memory).

Perspective of our own importance & significance in the whole scheme of things can be very cathartic...

S

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Yep, knew that, I counted them all once

Haha better than counting sheep

Only took me 27 years :-

You didn’t count all of them then

I know, those pesky stars kept on disappearing and new ones started, I lost count after 12 years so had to start all over again.

I'm starting on the sand grains tomorrow, I'll start with Southport beach "

Do it when the tide is in

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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago

West Wales


"And that when you watch the sun setting over the horizon, you're not, and have missed it.

Stephen Fry said it, so it must be correct.

He’s right it takes 8 minutes for the suns light to reach us"

When you look up at the stars some of the light you see left that sun when the dinosaurs were still on Earth...

S

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No I didn't but I love it. Love looking at the stars

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South of Ipswich


"Check out the Hubble Deep Field video on Youtube. Mind blowing

Looking up certainly puts a different perspective on things We have the deep field poster framed on a wall.

A couple of YouTube vids are good too, one of the respective sizes of the planets/sun then going up to the supergiants out there. Mind blowing!

The other starts on our solar system & keeps panning out to the whole known universe (from memory).

Perspective of our own importance & significance in the whole scheme of things can be very cathartic...

S"

Absolutely!

Carl Sagans 'Pale Blue Dot' does this to awesome effect

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Check out the Hubble Deep Field video on Youtube. Mind blowing

Looking up certainly puts a different perspective on things We have the deep field poster framed on a wall.

A couple of YouTube vids are good too, one of the respective sizes of the planets/sun then going up to the supergiants out there. Mind blowing!

The other starts on our solar system & keeps panning out to the whole known universe (from memory).

Perspective of our own importance & significance in the whole scheme of things can be very cathartic...

S"

Yes it puts everything into perspective

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here


"Have you counted the sand grains and the stars?

Still counting "

Out of interest, how many grains on cleethorpes beach?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world "

Who counted the sand?

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax

Cleethorpes has Wonderland. It doesn't need anything else to make it wonderful.

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax

Nah I don't think that's it. From what I remember it's to do with the curvature of the earth and certain rays of light on thee spectrum. Or something. And what we're seeing is essentially an optical illusion/phenomenon of what's happened a few minutes before.

It made sense at the time..

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Nah I don't think that's it. From what I remember it's to do with the curvature of the earth and certain rays of light on thee spectrum. Or something. And what we're seeing is essentially an optical illusion/phenomenon of what's happened a few minutes before.

It made sense at the time.. "

The sun is 8 light minutes away in other words it’s light has taken 8 minutes to reach us so you see the sun as it was 8 minutes ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Have you counted the sand grains and the stars?

Still counting

Out of interest, how many grains on cleethorpes beach?"

Quite a few

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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago

West Wales

When you look up with the naked eye every single thing with one exception (if you’ve 20/20 & know where to look) is in the Milky Way & all of it with the exception of our local group of planets is another Sun with its own planets orbiting it...

And there are still people out there that say aliens don’t exist.

S

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"When you look up with the naked eye every single thing with one exception (if you’ve 20/20 & know where to look) is in the Milky Way & all of it with the exception of our local group of planets is another Sun with its own planets orbiting it...

And there are still people out there that say aliens don’t exist.

S"

Alien life is out there

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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago

West Wales


"When you look up with the naked eye every single thing with one exception (if you’ve 20/20 & know where to look) is in the Milky Way & all of it with the exception of our local group of planets is another Sun with its own planets orbiting it...

And there are still people out there that say aliens don’t exist.

S

Alien life is out there "

S

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax


"Nah I don't think that's it. From what I remember it's to do with the curvature of the earth and certain rays of light on thee spectrum. Or something. And what we're seeing is essentially an optical illusion/phenomenon of what's happened a few minutes before.

It made sense at the time..

The sun is 8 light minutes away in other words it’s light has taken 8 minutes to reach us so you see the sun as it was 8 minutes ago "

No. I get your logic. But this is taking that into account. Its a mirage to do with the light from the sun in those moments hitting our part of the earth at a shallow angle combined with air pressure making the light bend.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Nah I don't think that's it. From what I remember it's to do with the curvature of the earth and certain rays of light on thee spectrum. Or something. And what we're seeing is essentially an optical illusion/phenomenon of what's happened a few minutes before.

It made sense at the

The sun is 8 light minutes away in other words it’s light has taken 8 minutes to reach us so you see the sun as it was 8 minutes ago

No. I get your logic. But this is taking that into account. Its a mirage to do with the light from the sun in those moments hitting our part of the earth at a shallow angle combined with air pressure making the light bend. "

You’ve lost me now

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South of Ipswich

On a side note, there's a lunar eclipse tomorrow night

Sort of...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"On a side note, there's a lunar eclipse tomorrow night

Sort of..."

What time?

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here


"Cleethorpes has Wonderland. It doesn't need anything else to make it wonderful. "

Wonderland isn’t what it used to be

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes and around those stars there are planets, so just imagine the posibilities of there being another planet with life on it.. Considering our sun is an average star.

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here


"Have you counted the sand grains and the stars?

Still counting

Out of interest, how many grains on cleethorpes beach?

Quite a few "

Good enough for me

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South of Ipswich

Looks like it starts at 17.10. Finishes around 21.15

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Cleethorpes has Wonderland. It doesn't need anything else to make it wonderful.

Wonderland isn’t what it used to be "

It’s a go kart track now

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Looks like it starts at 17.10. Finishes around 21.15 "

Let’s hope it’s a clear evening

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By *attb179Man
over a year ago

London


"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world "

And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world

And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe... "

Are we going quauntum now

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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago

West Wales


"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world

And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe... "

The Highwayman by The Highwaymen

Have a listen on YouTube if you don’t know it

S

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world

And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe...

The Highwayman by The Highwaymen

Have a listen on YouTube if you don’t know it

S"

Sounds like a song by Adam and the ants

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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago

West Wales


"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world

And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe...

The Highwayman by The Highwaymen

Have a listen on YouTube if you don’t know it

S

Sounds like a song by Adam and the ants "

“Stand & use a telescope, look into the past”

Not quite got the same ring to it

S

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beeches in the world

And there are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than all the stars in the universe...

The Highwayman by The Highwaymen

Have a listen on YouTube if you don’t know it

S

Sounds like a song by Adam and the ants

“Stand & use a telescope, look into the past”

Not quite got the same ring to it

S"

Haha fair point

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The universe is one big fuck.

I think this sums it up.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Did you know that if you were to shrink the observable universe to the size of Earth, our sun would be just a speckle of dust?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can't wait to see what the James webb telescope will discover.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I can't wait to see what the James webb telescope will discover.

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Yea me to

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By *exyCouple999Couple
over a year ago

South Bucks


"There are 200 billion stars in our own galaxy and they reckon now that there are 5 times as many planets "

Who is "they" ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Did you also know..

That I'm sick of the bloody mice in my attic that 3 poisons 2 sonars moth balls n ferret poo won't stop them

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There are 200 billion stars in our own galaxy and they reckon now that there are 5 times as many planets

Who is "they" ?

"

The star counters

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By *reeneggsandsamMan
over a year ago

Perpignan and cap

Well whoopie fucking doo!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Did you also know..

That I'm sick of the bloody mice in my attic that 3 poisons 2 sonars moth balls n ferret poo won't stop them"

Oh dear

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