41–50 of 84 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Especially on realization that this 100k stars is only 0.0001% of the stars in our galaxy. It would take one million of these visualizations to represent the Milky Way.
And the Milky Way galaxy is one of trillions.
How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do. There's a nice write up on building a model for the scale of universe: https://ciju.in/posts/a-play-with-universe And another one on visualizing time and big numbers (not as nice:) ): https://rohitshinde.in/blog/visualizing-universe-time-relati...
> How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do. It (that knowledge that everything I will ever do is absolutely irrelevant on the grand scale of things) makes me feel more powerful than ever and let's me split the relevant stuff from the irrelevant. Instead of running after one dopamine rush and living my life at 200km/h I enjoy it more. It takes a lot o…
But I am also coming to a conclusion that we shouldn't really let the scale of universe come in way -- but if we can let it affect things positively, great, no harm.
Reason being: For anything to make sense, it has to have some context (example: these words make sense to you, but not to one who doesn't know English). When we make the context (or space, or time) unfathomably larger, things we have control over lose their meaning, their impact, it literally becomes nonsense? And so we should probably keep it away. Good as a thought exercise & fun, but impractical. Now you can counter-argue saying what's "practical," but that defeats the point :)
If you have ever played Elite Dangerous, you will be unimpressed by this. The stellar forge (which is a system used to generate the roughly 400 billion star systems which are present in the 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy in Elite Dangerous) is actually something incredible: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Stellar_Forge If you ever played the game and opened the map and zoomed out you know what I mean ( https://ww…
How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do. There's a nice write up on building a model for the scale of universe: https://ciju.in/posts/a-play-with-universe And another one on visualizing time and big numbers (not as nice:) ): https://rohitshinde.in/blog/visualizing-universe-time-relati...
Douglas Adams
If you have ever played Elite Dangerous, you will be unimpressed by this. The stellar forge (which is a system used to generate the roughly 400 billion star systems which are present in the 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy in Elite Dangerous) is actually something incredible: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Stellar_Forge If you ever played the game and opened the map and zoomed out you know what I mean ( https://ww…
How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do. There's a nice write up on building a model for the scale of universe: https://ciju.in/posts/a-play-with-universe And another one on visualizing time and big numbers (not as nice:) ): https://rohitshinde.in/blog/visualizing-universe-time-relati...
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends on your definition of "star." You can see the Andromeda galaxy with your naked eye (as well as the galactic center.)
True, but IIUC, that's the only object you can see in the sky that is not a part of our galaxy.
How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do. There's a nice write up on building a model for the scale of universe: https://ciju.in/posts/a-play-with-universe And another one on visualizing time and big numbers (not as nice:) ): https://rohitshinde.in/blog/visualizing-universe-time-relati...
“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.” Douglas Adams
If you have ever played Elite Dangerous, you will be unimpressed by this. The stellar forge (which is a system used to generate the roughly 400 billion star systems which are present in the 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy in Elite Dangerous) is actually something incredible: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Stellar_Forge If you ever played the game and opened the map and zoomed out you know what I mean ( https://ww…
I've played Elite Dangerous, and I'm still impressed by this ... because this runs in a browser, at 60fps on my Macbook, with a cold start time of about 8s (and half of that is streaming in a 3MB JSON file of all the star data). That is quite impressive.