______________________________________________________________________
THIS WEEKS THOUGHT - The World In Perspective - 14th July 2007
Reading / Viewing Time 1 minute 30 seconds AS THIS IS A VISUAL THOUGHT THERE IS NO PODCAST THIS WEEK
This weeks thought came from a colleague of mine (thanks Kate) with a little bit of Bill Bryson added in. It's a little different to the normal format because its of its visual impact, but it's certainly great food for thought.
Good to Great - Jim Collins 7 Habits - Stephen Covey Discover you Strengths - M Buckingham Richard Branson's Auto biography Brilliant Memory - Dominic O'Brien Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill Freakonomics - Stephen Levitt Getting Things Done - David Allen The Machine That Changed the World Watching the English - Kate Fox
Archives
3 Blind Men & An Elephant
Someone Everyone Anyone
No-one
12 Questions to
High Performance
The Bee Can't Fly but No-one told the
bee
The Maverick Mindset of
Baseball
Three Men and a Boat
Stop
Two Cannibals & a Beautiful Girl
The Meaning of Life
What was your name again?
Two Frogs
Is Common Sense Possible
An Architects Vision
Does Edison Turn Your Light On
Other books and CDs I've mentioned can be found here
There are loads of great audio programs at Nightingale Conant's ,web site here,
On a diagram of the solar system with the Earth reduced to the size of a pea Jupiter would be 300 meters away and Pluto would be 2.5km away (and the size of a bacteria).
On the same scale our nearest star Proxima Centauri is 16,000 km away.
It took Voyager 30 years to travel to Pluto but if you think that's near the edge of the solar system think again. In fact the trip to the edge of the solar system has only just begun, it will take Voyager now travelling at 38,250mph another 10,000 years to reach the edge of the solar system!
Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky and is only the 1000th brightest star in our galaxy
Our Galaxy is 100,000 light-years across and the Galactic Year is of about 225 million years.
Our galaxy has about 200 million stars and the experts (NASA) say and there are billions of planets in our galaxy. If you want a Bryson translation then there are more planets in our galaxy than grains of sand on Earth!
If you think this is impressive then there are still billions of other galaxies to think about which are also in our universe.
Now I've heard some great comments about these pictures but this is the one that I like the best
"How big are the things that upset you today, keep life in perspective"
Till next weeks story about the fisherman and the MBA student
David Gardner
________________
If you want a little more information in some resemblance of English rather scientific double Dutch then check out Bill Brysons "A Short History of Nearly Everything "
Apologies the photo's came on email so I don't know have a proper reference for them
![Richard Branson's Auto biography](http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0753510200?ie=UTF8&tag=thoofthewee03-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0753510200"><img border="0" src="0753510200.01._AA_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg"></a><img src="http://www.assoc-am){kind=link}
![Brilliant Memory - Dominic O'Brien](http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1844831531?ie=UTF8&tag=thoofthewee03-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1844831531"><img border="0" src="1844831531.02._AA_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg"></a><img src="http://www.assoc-am){kind=link}