Our Lone Star: Understanding the Vastness of Space | David Whelan | TEDxAustinCollege

[@vince_austin]

This video needs more attention! Incredible, mind boggling stuff.

[@mylightobscures]

6:02 That's CRAZY Once he explained the basketball representing the Sun, I was already blown away when he said where the Earth would be in comparison It makes me want to learn more about gravity-- I'd heard that it's a force that never truly stops reaching things far away but it's effects weaken drastically with distance? And to think, with how far planets are from the Sun, they're still bound to orbit around it Now I'm starting to understand how it could be that even more massive structures such as galaxies could be influencing each other with gravity.... I'm gonna have to review anything and everything I've 'learned' with this new perspective ....waa! But even more than that, I really like the vastness of space It's quite sad, and it would probably be terrible to experience it as a human, but I wish I could drift in space for a few million years--- not even anywhere particularly special.. just the middle of nowhere where the light of any star wouldn't reach me That would be a nice nap

[@PaulSmith-wz2xv]

Wonderful and mind stretching beyond our primate reality, can this be shown to all those small minds in the UN. ?

[@tomstanley2438]

Great talk!

[@ChiefPeck]

Good video brother 👊

[@vd-2045]

Such an interesting and awesome video .

[@drewchojnowski3510]

Everything is bigger in Texas even the Sun.