[Alan McDougall (OP)]

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

What do you think?

Alan

[neilep]

Check this thread out Alan

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=15182.0

and then scroll down to Madidus post and click the link there for a video that relates exactly to your awesome link.....when you get there...you have to scroll down too for the you tube vid !

[Alan McDougall (OP)]

Neilep,

Thanks,

Here is more
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0404/0404feature_slide1.html

[Soul Surfer]

That's quite good because it gets over the fact that although stars are mostly quite a lot bigger than planets it is the space between them that is absolutely vast.  It is just about impossible for two stars that were not formed in close proximity to each other to collide.  whereas galaxies collide with each other quite frequently  (if you can describe any event that takes hundreds of millions of years to happen as happening frequently in a universe that has only been around for about 15 thousand million years )