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myrmepropagandist
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Thinking about super clusters of galaxies and getting very upset about how big that is.

Don't even get me started on that... gravitational noodle nonsense. I can't handle that stuff yet.

I'm just... going to try to get less upset about the super clusters for now. Don't tell me about anything bigger please.

Nazo
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@futurebird There are a few games I play where they do somewhat realistic simulations of astral bodies. The most realistic, of course, is Elite Dangerous. You can fly towards a red giant and struggle even to get a feel for its size even going faster than light.

But another game I had been getting into a lot in recent times is Empyrion. It's not super realistic, but at the same time, the fact you can walk around on verdant worlds and look up and see what's in the sky makes a difference for pulling you in more IMO.

Anyway, the point I'm getting to in my roundabout way is several worlds orbit gas giants and the like and sometimes you can look up during the day and it's just floating in the sky dominating your view. It really gives you a sense of scale...

(I had to google for an image.)

@futurebird As a side note, at some point I got used to this sort of thing, but I tried to get someone to play the game with me and they started getting a terrible sense of vertigo, feeling like they could fall off into that much larger world in the sky, lol.