The Glade 4.0

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.

Trippy.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

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.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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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.

Don't Panic

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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.

Very cool. I see things like this pop up from time to time and am yet still amazed.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Incomprehensible is maybe the wrong word. That said, I lack the caffeine to think of a more accurate one.

It was the right word for Douglas Adams.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

What a fantastic way to demonstrate the concept. Whoever did that wins.

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.

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.