small -> big -> bigger -> bigger than bigger -> ?

This is a discussion on small -> big -> bigger -> bigger than bigger -> ? within the A Brief History of Cprogramming.com forums, part of the Community Boards category; http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/f...1213965vj1.jpg http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/f...2/25228882.jpg http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/f...0747177kc6.jpg http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/f...6597649ml2.jpg http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/f...8278224br3.jpg EDIT: Hmm...I followed the board faq about images, but the images don't display. Bummer. To ...

  1. 02-09-2009 #1
    happyclown
    happyclown is offline
    In my head happyclown's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    In my head
    Posts
    391

    small -> big -> bigger -> bigger than bigger -> ?

    http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/f...1213965vj1.jpg

    http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/f...2/25228882.jpg

    http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/f...0747177kc6.jpg

    http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/f...6597649ml2.jpg

    http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/f...8278224br3.jpg

    EDIT:

    Hmm...I followed the board faq about images, but the images don't display. Bummer.

    To include an image that is not uploaded as an attachment and is located on another website, you can do so by copying the full URL to the image, (not the page on which the image is located), and either pressing the 'Insert Image' icon or by typing [img] before the URL and [/img] after it, ensuring that you do not have any spaces before or after the URL of the image.
    Looks like the [IMG][/IMG] tags got removed automatically.
    Last edited by happyclown; 02-09-2009 at 04:20 PM.
  2. 02-09-2009 #2
    SlyMaelstrom
    SlyMaelstrom is offline
    Devil's Advocate SlyMaelstrom's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2004
    Location
    Out of scope
    Posts
    4,037
    Who cares about Pluto. It's not even a planet. It's just a big nothing.
    Sent from my iPadŽ
  3. 02-09-2009 #3
    Sentral
    Sentral is offline
    For Narnia! Sentral's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2005
    Location
    Narnia
    Posts
    719
    Yea, I saw a video about this on Youtube. Pretty amazing!

    Here it is. It shows stars bigger than Antares!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL6E8mn-H2c
    Last edited by Sentral; 02-09-2009 at 06:22 PM.
    Videogame Memories!
    A site dedicated to keeping videogame memories alive!

    http://www.videogamememories.com/
    Share your experiences with us now!

    "We will game forever!"
  4. 02-09-2009 #4
    zacs7
    zacs7 is offline
    Woof, woof! zacs7's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Australia
    Posts
    3,459
    Sigh and considering all those planets are unreachable that makes them useless to us.

    Other than testing "space rockets" and alike.
    vim
  5. 02-09-2009 #5
    stevesmithx
    stevesmithx is offline
    and the hat of copycat stevesmithx's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Posts
    460
    VY Canis Majoris beats 'em all.
    >>Sigh and considering all those planets are unreachable ...
    for now.
    Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
    - Albert Einstein.


    No programming language is perfect. There is not even a single best language; there are only languages well suited or perhaps poorly suited for particular purposes.
    - Herbert Mayer
  6. 02-10-2009 #6
    VirtualAce
    VirtualAce is offline
    Super Moderator VirtualAce's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2001
    Posts
    9,515
    If I remember correctly from my hobby astronomy days Antares is as big as the orbit of Mars around our sun.

    Very cool pics and really give you an idea of the scale of other planets/suns in the universe.
    Arrogance breeds bad code
  7. 03-03-2009 #7
    ಠ_ಠ
    ಠ_ಠ is offline
    Banned ಠ_ಠ's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Posts
    687
    http://jj.am/gallery/d/45398-1/Perspective_stars.gif
  8. 03-04-2009 #8
    cpjust
    cpjust is offline
    and the hat of sweating
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Location
    Toronto, ON
    Posts
    3,548
    The sun is 1 pixel compared to Antares. LOL!
    "I am probably the laziest programmer on the planet, a fact with which anyone who has ever seen my code will agree." - esbo, 11/15/2008

    "the internet is a scary place to be thats why i dont use it much." - billet, 03/17/2010
  9. 03-10-2009 #9
    hauzer
    hauzer is offline
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Location
    Belgrade, Serbia
    Posts
    163
    This is amazing, thanx for the pictures.
    Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
    What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
    All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
    For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
  10. 03-11-2009 #10
    Masterx
    Masterx is offline
    بابلی ریکا Masterx's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Somewhere nearby,Who Cares?
    Posts
    478
    tanx dude , thats great stuff!
    Highlight Your Codes
    The Boost C++ Libraries (online Reference)

    "...a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are,in short, a perfect match.."
    Bill Bryson

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »
Popular pages Recent additions subscribe to a feed

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21