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The Final Frontier

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August 20th, 2009 Tags: height, xkcd
by Sheril Kirshenbaum in Media and Science | 10 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

10 Responses to “The Final Frontier”

1. 1.   Ian Says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 3:51 am

   Fantastic cartoon – love it.

2. 2.   robert Says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 5:26 am

   Are there really only 5 star candidates that humans might eventually travel too?

3. 3.   Marc Says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 9:20 am

   Pedant point: the age of the Universe from WMAP is 13.7 +/- 0.2 Gyr, not 46 Gyr. Cute otherwise.

4. 4.   Rules For Says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 11:17 am

   Marc:
   But space has been expanding that entire time, and the distance from here to there is now 46 billion light years, even though the light we see only traveled 13.7 billion light years.

5. 5.   Anthony McCarthy Says:
   August 22nd, 2009 at 5:06 am

   You wonder what that cartoon would look like if it was drawn fifty years from now, in time, not light. If anyone is still around to draw it.

6. 6.   Ergun Çoruh Says:
   August 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 pm

   Brilliant, wonderful depiction of our Universe.

7. 7.   St. Eutychus » Lost in space (and time) Says:
   August 23rd, 2009 at 8:52 am

   [...] So here’s another vital infographic (from here). [...]

8. 8.   Allen Hook Says:
   August 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 pm

   Is there anywhere I can purchase this as a chart ?

9. 9.   Susan Anderson Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 9:45 am

   I love it! I looked for the Bamiyan Buddha, for the knock the tall buildings down phallic obsessives (joke, I hope, but I can see it might not be funny for some, to whom I apologize in advance) …

10. 10.   Sheril Kirshenbaum Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 10:50 am

    @8 Allen Hook,

    Go to http://store.xkcd.com/

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