Earth’s Location in the Universe
Earth → Solar System → Local Interstellar Cloud → Milky Way Galaxy → Local Group → Virgo Supercluster → Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex → Observable Universe → Universe
Earth - 12,700 km in diameter - Our planet
Solar System - 4 light-years across - Our home planetary system. At this point, the Sun’s gravity gives way to that of surrounding stars
Local Interstellar Cloud - 30 light-years across - Interstellar cloud of gas through which the Sun and a number of other stars are currently travelling
Milky Way Galaxy - 100,000 light-years across - Our home galaxy, composed of 200 billion to 400 billion stars and filled with the interstellar medium
Local Group - 3 megaparsecs across - Group of at least 47 galaxies. Dominated by Andromeda (the largest), The Milky Way and Triangulum; the remainder are small dwarf galaxies
Virgo Supercluster - 33 megaparsecs across - The supercluster of which our Local Group is a part; comprises roughly 100 galaxy groups and clusters
Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex - 300 megaparsecs across - The galaxy filament of which the Virgo Supercluster is a part
Observable Universe - 28,000 megaparsecs across - The large-scale structure of the universe consists of more than 100 billion galaxies, arranged in millions of superclusters, galactic filaments, and voids, creating a foam-like superstructure
Universe - Minimum of 28,000 megaparsecs - Beyond the observable universe lies the unobservable regions where no light from those regions has reached the Earth yet. No information is available about the region, as light is the fastest travelling medium of information. However, since there is no reason to suppose different natural laws, the universe is likely to contain more galaxies in the same foam-like superstructurehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interstellar_Cloud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way_Galaxy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_Supercluster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisces-Cetus_Supercluster_Complex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe
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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.
We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.
The Koch Brothers Exposed: The film
I just watched this documentary on Netflix, and I promise you, it’s the scariest film you’ll watch in your life. If you don’t know who the Koch brothers are, I highly recommend you read this post and then watch the “Koch Brothers Exposed”. They own you. They are destroying your life and future. You should at least know about it.
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—Strength of a Thousand Men
Strength of a Thousand Men - Two Steps From Hell
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Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.
—Huey P. Newton (via socialismartnature)
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Park Avenue:
A look at the real life Gordon Gekko’s of the United States. These are a few individual billionaires who use their wealth to buy power in Washington and alter the very fabric of our democracy. Congress bends to their will. They are elite. They are untouchable. They live on Park Avenue, New York, NY.
