bonkers!

[jimmygull]

My 4 year old son is currently well in to planets, solar system etc. Watched this video with him yesterday, mind blowing stuff...thought i'd share, apologies if some have seen it before. Music is a tad annoying.

Star Size Comparison HD - YouTube

 

[Titus]

My 4 year is currently well in to planets, solar system etc.

Your 4 year what?

 

[jimmygull]

Your 4 year what?

sorry, 4 year old son.

 

[Bakero]

The enormity of the universe is mind-boggling.

 

[Racek]

Your 4 year what?

What did you think it might be?

 

[clippedgull]

One statistic that always boggles my mind,

"There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on Planet Earth" - Dr. Carl Sagan (sometime in the 70's!)

 

[clippedgull]

Cosmology and astronomy | Khan Academy

Is a good link for school age kids to learn about this stuff in a non stuffy kind of way.

 

[smeariestbat]

One statistic that always boggles my mind,

"There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on Planet Earth" - Dr. Carl Sagan (sometime in the 70's!)

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Eric Idle was right!

 

[Marxo]

Eric Idle was right!

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[MattBackHome]

I love the old ocumentary films of Carl Sagan. They're just brilliant. And there's about him, or maybe the production values of the 70's that gives him an air of effortless cool.

All this despite him dressing exactly like Mulligan & O'Hare. Amazing.

 

[SeagullSongs]

One statistic that always boggles my mind,

"There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on Planet Earth" - Dr. Carl Sagan (sometime in the 70's!)

Not just a few times more, about a THOUSAND times more stars in the observable universe than grains of sand on the Earth. Apparently.