Scale of the Universe
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Scale of the Universe
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Re: Scale of the Universe
#2Trying to comprehend the scale of the universe is deeply unsettling, especially when thinking about our minute, insignificant part of it.
Anyway, I hope the startup you're killing yourself over is going well!
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#3I wish this page worked. Might just be on my end, but I really want to see this. I love the overwhelming feeling of insignificance.
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#4When I was a little kid, I used to lay in my bed, in the dark, and think about the size of the room around me. Then I'd think of the size of my house, then the size of my hometown, then the size of my home state, then the size of the United States, then the size of the planet, and so on until I couldn't conceive of the scale of what I was trying to envision.
It was at once exciting and absolutely terrifying. This doesn't quite capture that feeling, but it's still pretty neat.
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#5I wish this page worked. Might just be on my end, but I really want to see this. I love the overwhelming feeling of insignificance.
Looks like it was built with Flash, so that could be it. Its a really cool project if you do get a chance to check it out on another device.
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#6When I was a little kid, I used to lay in my bed, in the dark, and think about the size of the room around me. Then I'd think of the size of my house, then the size of my hometown, then the size of my home state, then the size of the United States, then the size of the planet, and so on until I couldn't conceive of the scale of what I was trying to envision. It was at once exciting and absolutely terrifying. This doe…
It is terrifying, which is interesting to analyze. Why should it be? Must be something deeply ingrained in us humans.
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#7Been posted in various forms numerous times over the years.
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=scale+of+the+u...
At least this is the more accurate version at the top end of the scale.
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#8That largest bacterium's size is incorrect. It shows a chain of them as 750um, but in reality just one can become that large. In the picture, they look as big as a human ovum at 120um, but obviously that's not accurate.
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#9A few of my 3D renders on the topic of scale:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star-sizes.jpg
- http://davidjarvis.ca/dave/gallery/star-sizes/
It is incredible to consider that the largest known stars are the size of the Solar System.
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#10When I was a little kid, I used to lay in my bed, in the dark, and think about the size of the room around me. Then I'd think of the size of my house, then the size of my hometown, then the size of my home state, then the size of the United States, then the size of the planet, and so on until I couldn't conceive of the scale of what I was trying to envision. It was at once exciting and absolutely terrifying. This doe…
I used to do the same. Even now, thinking about the scale of very large things can be unsettling: