So how big is the universe anyway?

[ForceUser]

Disclaimer: This thread has nothing to do with TheUniverse. I can't speak for his size, IYKWIMAITYD.

So how big is the visible universe? About this big. You have to zoom all the way in to find the Sun. Yowsers.

A light year (ly), for those who haven't had a science class lately, is the distance that light can travel in one year (roughly 186,000 miles per second).

 

[mojo1701]

...and expanding.

 

[Torm]

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

- from The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Seriously, though, that's pretty neat.

 

[Simplicity]

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."

-- Douglas Adams

Edit: Argg!!! You beat me to it! Ah well... Quoted again for truth.

 

[Torm]

Was yours from memory? If so, pretty darned good! I had to look mine up.

 

[ForceUser]

I'll see your Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quote and raise you one Monty Python song! (Turn your speakers on.)

 

[Rel]

"It's a small world. But I wouldn't want to paint it." - Steven Wright

As to The Universe, he's pretty average in size but he makes up for it by being a really cool guy.

 

[ForceUser]

As to The Universe, he's pretty average in size but he makes up for it by being a really cool guy.

That's what my ex-girlfriends would tell me. I wonder if it's relevant that they're my ex-girlfriends.

 

[Crothian]

Torm said my first thought on this!!

 

[Lady_Acoma]

As to The Universe, he's pretty average in size but he makes up for it by being a really cool guy.

Why do you know this and does Queen D know you do? Does The Universe?