As someone new to web development, simple creative websites are great inspiration and fun to learn from.
If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel
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#102If you scroll to the end, out beyond Pluto, it says, "Might as well stop now. We'll need to scroll through 6,771 more maps like this before we see anything else." For those curious, after scrolling 6,771 more maps, that is approximately where you would expect to find Proxima Centauri. However, there are actually some other points of interest along the way (between Pluto and Proxima Centauri), including Eris, 90377 Se…
If moon = 1 px is your yardstick, then I can see not putting Voyager up there, but otherwise I'm with you. If you stick Pluto in at about 2/3 the size of the moon, no reason not to include Eris (about the same size as Pluto) and the half dozen or so other TNOs that are a half or more the size of Pluto.
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#103Jupiter, yeah right... HN articles are received nearly 35 minutes late.
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#104As I was scrolling through I started to notice a really nice, subtle star background pattern that wasn't moving. I thought that was a really nice touch. And then I touched my monitor and, turns out, it was just dust. There's a metaphor there but I have no idea what it is.
I can imagine a dead pixel would be like your spaceship.
"That's no moon..."
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not a native speaker, but I had the impression this shift to "were" happens less in the UK than in the US. Is that so?
I speak British English and it's more a matter of register for me. If I'm writing something formal I'll use the subjunctive, if I'm talking to friends I'll just stick with the indicative. If I saw someone write "it is necessary that he goes" in a paper it would stick out as strange to me, likewise if I heard someone say "it is necessary that he go" it would sound overly formal and a bit stilted. So really, you can us…
> one has a moral obligation to annoy prescriptivists anyway
And that's a cause I can really get behind.
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#106Funny. It feels like an adventure game, it illustrates a point, and it's just a static page. I even checked, it works perfectly fine without JavaScript. Great example of what can be achieved with good design. I can't help to mentally contrast this with what people call "web apps" these days that use extremely complicated client-side code to communicate far less interesting things, and often do it badly anyway.
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#107I found this to be a peaceful late-night experience. I put the window to fullscreen to avoid all other distractions, rotated my Magic Mouse 90º, and just smooth scrolled through the story. Really nice.
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#108*were http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood
Yes! One of my pet peeves (philosophy major).
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#109For a similar visualization of the human genome, and to get a sense of how vast that landscape is, check out this genome browser I made a couple years ago:
At the lowest zoom level, one pixel is 280,000 bp (roughly the length of one or two genes, including noncoding segments). You can zoom all the way into the individual base pairs (a, c, t, and g).
There is a track below the chromosome cartoon (cartogram) that shows you the genes if you pull down on its label.
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#110*were http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood