Saturn rings should have been draw from an upper view. They would be too thin to display.
If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel
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#132Anybody else get the feeling that we're probably stuck and will all die here on Earth? While scrolling through all that empty space, I was thinking about interstellar travel. I imagine it'll eventually be as easy and commonplace as we see in sci-fi, but I'm having a moment of doubt we'll ever get there, or if there's any point out-living the home planet.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm American, so I use imperial units in my everyday life. I'm also a (bio)chemist, so I do use metric units about as often as I do imperial units. While I might be slightly biased ("M" is molarity gosh dangit), I don't think I would confuse "M" for "meters (m)" simply because I use imperial units in my everyday life. I bring this up simply because I've seen a few comments over the past few days to the tone of "imper…
I only see using imperial units as an advantage Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being understood by everyone else? (What I heard in the UK during the supermarket transition to metric a decade ago: imperial uses fractions, which is a useful to grasp for learning children, etc. But I'…
> Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being understood by everyone else?
What other advantage, you ask? Well, I'd say that there is none. I was merely trying to convey that being fluent in both imperial and metric is better than being fluent in only metric. As long as it doesn't hurt me (which imperial doesn't) the more skill-sets I have, the better!
I hope you better see where I'm coming from now. You didn't work me up though, and I also didn't mean to work anyone up either. :)
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#134Funny. 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.
It did to me, too. It has some of the mood of my all-time favourite piece of Interactive Fiction - heck, of any fiction.
Photopia (http://adamcadre.ac/if/photopia.html)
It's my hope that one soul, somewhere, will discover this today. That would make me happy. :)
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#135Are you kidding me? Sideways scroll with no way to use my scroll wheel? It's choppy and unreadable scrolling using the scrollbar, and using the right arrow is just too slow.
Try tilting your mouse 90 degrees then scroll the wheel towards the left.
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#136Are you kidding me? Sideways scroll with no way to use my scroll wheel? It's choppy and unreadable scrolling using the scrollbar, and using the right arrow is just too slow.
It is actually far too fast, several times the speed of light. If you really wanted to realize how vast and empty space is, you should make it scroll slower.
I think sticking to the speed of light for scrolling transitions would put things even more into perspective (though make the content a little harder to reach haha).
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#137Somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn, I had to resort to $(".essay").each(function(i){console.log($(this).text())}); to read the fun little text snippets. I like how it got fairly philosophical—everything eventually turns to philosophy if you are stranded out in space. Thanks for putting this together; it was a nice take on the perspective of our universe.
Or you could just, y'know, view source.
Select all --> copy --> paste into editor works too.
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#138I can't help it. Everything like this reminds me of Powers of Ten [1].
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#139This has the same effect on me as writing out all the zeros in larger numbers, rather than in scientific notation, and then zooming in to see only about 3 zeros at the same time and asking me to scroll through them. Even without the horrible "zoom in", the size loses meaning and I can't tell how big it is, because humans think in logarithmic scales. I can't really estimate the difference in size by glancing at the nu…
I found this really helpful insofar as grasping orders of magnitude of big numbers:
1 thousand seconds is 16.7 minutes 1 million seconds is 11.6 days 1 billion seconds is 31.6 years
In my mind the difference between a million and a billion seemed somewhat tangible before hearing this. With that comparison, a billion seems so much more.
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#140This has the same effect on me as writing out all the zeros in larger numbers, rather than in scientific notation, and then zooming in to see only about 3 zeros at the same time and asking me to scroll through them. Even without the horrible "zoom in", the size loses meaning and I can't tell how big it is, because humans think in logarithmic scales. I can't really estimate the difference in size by glancing at the nu…
I found this really helpful insofar as grasping orders of magnitude of big numbers: 1 thousand seconds is 16.7 minutes 1 million seconds is 11.6 days 1 billion seconds is 31.6 years In my mind the difference between a million and a billion seemed somewhat tangible before hearing this. With that comparison, a billion seems so much more.
> In my mind the difference between a million and a billion seemed somewhat tangible before hearing this. With that comparison, a billion seems so much more.
Another way to think about these scaling ratios is to realize that a billion is a thousand times larger than a million.
Billion = 10^9
Million = 10^6
9 - 6 = 3. 10^3 = 1000