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This is a link post Big things.
A list of large objects.
 (tacpprm has a mmrpcat, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:07, Reply)
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I often wonder, for no apparent reason, if, for example, I am officially big or small. in relation to quarks, electrons, galaxies and stars, should something like a human or an elephant be classed as big or small?
 (I helped save b3ta! RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Size can only be measured in comparison
Take 10 Metres for example.

If it was an airport runway, it'd be short.
If it was a cock, it's be stupidly huge.
 (__, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:12, Reply)
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yeah but at some point you hsould be able to compare against EVERYTHING.
 (I helped save b3ta! RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:30, Reply)
This is a normal post This is the basis of multiple dimensions and string theory

(I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:23, Reply)
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my head hurts already.
 (I helped save b3ta! RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:29, Reply)
This is a normal post If you've got 11 minutes to spare
you could do worse than watch this video

If that piques your interest I also recommend listening to Michio Kaku.
 (I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:56, Reply)
This is a normal post What Powers of 10
The short film (Or long one if you can get the Imax version).

There are something like 40 orders of magnitude difference between the biggest and smallest objects we can detect, we lie at about the 16th order of magnitude, so on average, we are small given that we lie nearer the smaller end of the spectrum than the bigger. However, there are many (many many) more smaller things than us, than bigger things, so in effect we are big.

Orders of magnitude being x 10. So the biggest object (the known universe) is 4 x 1040 bigger than the smallest, known object.
Powers of ten, imax clip

Edit: Balls, still can't edit subject line! Should read Watch Powers of 10
 (I helped save b3ta! LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:46, Reply)
This is a normal post I have photographs of most of these big things
There is no Big Udder on there!!! I have a picture of that, and a giant worm.

Edit: OK the Giant Worm is on there. :)
 (I helped save b3ta! lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Are you Danny wallace?
He bought these to my attention in one of his books!

Do you have a giant prawn?
 (I helped save b3ta! Si o doom Fund me! No catering cost involved! bit.ly/1bFtzN2, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Its in a town just below Byron Bay called Ballina
It was done a few years ago in Oz by a woman called Magda Szubanski called Magdas Big Things. Me and my brother got most of the pics a good 5 years before she came up with the idea, although to be fair Im pretty sure she didnt plagerise it off us.
 (I helped save b3ta! lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 17:32, Reply)