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The Scale of the Universe (interactive)
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Author:  Rodahn [ Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:35 pm ]
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Didn't see this in a search, so mock if old.

Anyway, uncle just sent this to me in an e-mail:
Link

Really puts things in perspective.
Author:  Aethien [ Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:49 pm ]
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Trippy.
Author:  Talya [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:50 am ]
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Author:  Xerxes [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:50 am ]
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
Author:  shuyung [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:46 am ]
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Don't Panic
Author:  Aizle [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:56 am ]
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That's pretty cool. I already had a pretty good handle on the perspective, but that's a really effective tool to piece it all together.
Author:  Lonedar [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:58 am ]
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Very cool. I see things like this pop up from time to time and am yet still amazed.
Author:  Vindicarre [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:07 pm ]
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Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.
Author:  Lenas [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:13 pm ]
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Incomprehensible is maybe the wrong word. That said, I lack the caffeine to think of a more accurate one.
Author:  Vindicarre [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:15 pm ]
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It was the right word for Douglas Adams.
Author:  Slythe [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 4:57 pm ]
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What a fantastic way to demonstrate the concept. Whoever did that wins.
Author:  Rodahn [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:43 pm ]
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It just amazes me that there are (in theory) things as incredibly tiny as strings (I read once that if an atomic nucleus was expanded to the size of the known universe, then a string would be about the size of an average tree), and expanses as vast as the universe at large. Even those with the sharpest minds and biggest imaginations cannot fully comprehend or grasp those types of extremes.
Author:  Lex Luthor [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:14 pm ]
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It's interesting how we just happen to be close to the center of the scale.
Author:  Rodahn [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:33 pm ]
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Lex Luthor wrote:
It's interesting how we just happen to be close to the center of the scale.


I assume that's just because they wanted to keep it human-relative, as our species' point of view is the one we are most familiar with.
Author:  Lex Luthor [ Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:28 pm ]
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Rodahn wrote:
Lex Luthor wrote:
It's interesting how we just happen to be close to the center of the scale.


I assume that's just because they wanted to keep it human-relative, as our species' point of view is the one we are most familiar with.


No, it's because the spectrum of measurement goes from 10^-30 meters to 10^27 or whatever... haven't bothered to look at the numbers again. And we are at around 10^0 meters. It just makes me wonder if it's our limited observation that puts us in the middle.
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