the scale of the universe

this is neat. you can use your arrow keys (left/right).

scale of the universe

for me, zooming in was more interesting. zooming out, once you hit space, you quickly lose all perspective...

insane

Fascinating.

Love this kind of thing and this is done really well. We are both tiny and unimaginably massive, just depends what the perspective is.

You are here.

http://jmlynch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/paleblue_custom.jpg

A big fat looool at "Minecraft world" next to Neptune!

Yeah, that was amazing.

  On 2/11/2012 at 9:25 AM, chaosmachine said:

for me, zooming in was more interesting. zooming out, once you hit space, you quickly lose all perspective...

Story of my life..

Fuck giant earthworms and japanese spider crabs.

heres a link to the hubble ultra deep field if anyones interested

http://www.stsci.edu/~inr/thisweek1/thisweek/sdf_log.jpg

its just an image but its 8900 × 11000 in size

awesome! also made me think of this

awesomeness

yeah dude, I almost was interested... lol

Lol, Y0303's post made me literally spit out some chicken

Holy shit thats amazing... Makes our little neck of the universe seem to lose meaning but cool nonetheless.

as a very non-science person, I am fascinated with these theoretical outer limits of the universe and parts of the universe that cannot be defined. i wish i knew physics.

lovely

I love astronomy. I almost regret not going into astrophysics.

  On 2/12/2012 at 4:57 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

as a very non-science person, I am fascinated with these theoretical outer limits of the universe and parts of the universe that cannot be defined. i wish i knew physics.

The thing that i hate about a lot of physics is how unintuitive it feels when i'm trying to learn about it.

Lol @ minecraft world.

I stumbled across this the other day, it's pretty damn cool... Space is fucking huger than I can accurately even try to fathom in my mind

tim&eric gif

is life meaningless thread?

I get kinda depressed when I think that humans probably won't be capable of deep space exploration within my lifetime. Looking at those distances just makes it seem totally impossible.

  On 2/14/2012 at 2:23 AM, modey said:

I get kinda depressed when I think that humans probably won't be capable of deep space exploration within my lifetime. Looking at those distances just makes it seem totally impossible.

Probably? you'll be lucky to see us parachute from the moon.