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Here is today
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#12I expected to see some kind of reminder to put your life (or our society) into perspective, based on the vast cosmological timeframes).
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#13I expected to see some kind of reminder to put your life (or our society) into perspective, based on the vast cosmological timeframes).
And the share/like buttons kind of break a simple design.
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#14I always wonder how scientists do know that something was 25, 540 million or 2.560 billion years ago.
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#15Nice, although not very informative, since you somewhat loose perspective with each step.
Isn't that (loosing yourself in the grand scheme of things) the whole point of the animation ? A bit like Power of Ten [1] and Scale of the Universe [2] but with time instead of space.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 [2] http://www.htwins.net/scale2/
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#16I always wonder how scientists do know that something was 25, 540 million or 2.560 billion years ago.
Carbon Dating
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#17Nice visualization. Gives me the impression (a good impression) that so much can be done.
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#19I expected to see some kind of reminder to put your life (or our society) into perspective, based on the vast cosmological timeframes).
I think it's nice that it leaves you to draw your own conclusion, and doesn't preach or talk down to you, one way or the other.
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#20Nice, although not very informative, since you somewhat loose perspective with each step.
Isn't that (loosing yourself in the grand scheme of things) the whole point of the animation ? A bit like Power of Ten [1] and Scale of the Universe [2] but with time instead of space. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 [2] http://www.htwins.net/scale2/
I don't know what tzaman was saying exactly, but what I noticed was that "today" got down to one or two pixels pretty fast, while the larger and larger time periods were restricted to only another ~1000 pixels or so, so at some point you have to shift back to imagining the relative lengths of time in your head again, instead of seeing e.g. "today" as 1/30 of the month.