![]() ![]() Vernor Vinge has a fun time imagining it though, trying to divine what the interaction of sentient societies would look like when spread across such vast distances. I can't comprehend infinity, but I can't comprehend that either. These incomprehensibly massive objects are just pinpricks in the overall vastness of space. My computer's calculator started showing me letters when I tried to figure out how many Earths would fit inside VY Canis Majoris. How big is that? About 1.7 trillion times larger than the Earth. How about VY Canis Majoris? It's what's called a hypergiant star. Even Rebecca Black probably sold a million downloads of that terrible days of the week song for toddlers. Kind of makes you feel insignificant, right? But a million, that's not that many. Like, you have probably heard before that something like one million Earths would fit inside the sun. Text of message: Space is really, really, really big. Key phrases: Mind-Bending Galactic Scope, Smooth World-Building, Bogs Down in the Middle, Characters are kind of flat, Telepathic puppy aliens Subject: Books to talk about with my wife when she can't fall asleepĭate: 4.5 days before the Fall of BookSwap Language path: Stream of Consciousness Babble→Poorly Considered Argument→LOLcats→Goodreads In-jokes→Only Funny to Me→Irony→English ![]()
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