Get some perspective!

**akelly** · 7th March 2012, 01:57 PM

Check this out and get some perspective on your place in the universe, it's very cool.

http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?...source=message

Cheers,

Adam

**gusthedog** · 7th March 2012, 02:26 PM

Wicked Adam.

Cheers for that.

**blitz** · 7th March 2012, 02:47 PM

my mind is outside of the observabe universe

**87County** · 7th March 2012, 03:40 PM

fascinating -

very US-centric with the spellings like yoctometers and zettameters

**p38arover** · 7th March 2012, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by 87County

fascinating -

very US-centric with the spellings like yoctometers and zettameters

At least they used metres and not feet! Scaling with powers of 10 works better that way.

I have no idea what the diamond Minecraft World represents.

**akelly** · 7th March 2012, 04:56 PM

It took me 20 minutes to realise you can zoom IN from the start point as well...

**d3syd** · 7th March 2012, 05:11 PM

Amazing. Just goes to show how insignificant the day to day trial and tribulations that go on on this little blue dot are in the scheme of things....

**Mick_Marsh** · 7th March 2012, 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

I have no idea what the diamond Minecraft World represents.

I think it is the size of a virtual world in an on-line game.

**Ferret** · 7th March 2012, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by 87County

fascinating -

very US-centric with the spellings like yoctometers and zettameters

These are standard SI units - blame the French

**TimNZ** · 7th March 2012, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

I have no idea what the diamond Minecraft World represents.

If you click on any of the pictures you get a description.

Cheers,

Tim

(I didn't realise this until my third visit to the website

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