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- slothchunk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+131direct link:
http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/index_f.htm - spencewah, on 10/12/2007, -5/+64Interface kinda sucks. I wish it wasn't constantly moving.
- ckohler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60What is that rounded object shown beside the universe supposed to be?
- quomen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50What a beautiful perspective..
- afruff23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45If anybody didn't figure it out, use the scrollwheel.
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44Looks like...Kirby?
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -8/+46***** blog *****. Normally I would digg it just to bookmark it, but instead, I'll just the bookmark the link to the REAL app. No digg for you.
- XISUPERMANIX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Click on the human, it says "In the afternoon, our height decreases by 1-2cm, while our weight increases by 2kg on average". This site is crazy I was on for about an hour, very well done.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36zephc:
you would have been dugg up if it just said "yo mamma" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+35Why the f*** don't people just link the site directly
- Azimuth1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27The navigation leaves something to be desired. It shouldn't keep scrolling to the left by itself, and it should only bring up info boxes about the different measurements when you request them.
Really nice idea though. - vic42482, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Yeah, You showed him.
- rubicante, on 10/12/2007, -11/+27Decent idea, poor execution.
Not even close to as cool as this (that planetary scale video):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3974466981713172831 - wabbiteh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Well, sometimes you have to explain the reference. :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex
"The Total Perspective Vortex, in the fictional world of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is the most horrible torture device to which a sentient being can be subjected. It shows its victim the entire unimaginable infinity of the universe with a very tiny marker that says "You Are Here" which points to a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot." - jabroni9900, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW3i8NEoe74
I think that video represents it soooooooooo much better than anything!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I thought that was just my problem.
Glad to know I have support - krakround, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Powers of 10 for the 21st century. They needed to fill in the some of the gap between planets and mount everest with a few features of the earth like a continent or two.
- afruff23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Terrorist much?
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16"what is | next to the universe?? the flash app cant make up its mine if its nano meters or millions of light years."
It's supposed to be an easter egg. It's referring to God... whom the Japanese think is smaller than the universe somehow and has a definite shape. Who knows. - andyrobo60, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11what is | next to the universe?? the flash app cant make up its mine if its nano meters or millions of light years.
- evilgold, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Sounds a lot like the total perspective vortex to me.
- Zaetha, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Uranus is big.
- mmgreenmms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7According to Universcale, Pluto is still a planet.
- ElbridgeGerry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This had better make Diggnation. Do you hear me Kevin and/or Alex? Talk about this!
- kurtu5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@TLAKABM - Actually the size of the universe is unknown. Completely and utterly unknown.
An astrophysicist will say things like the size of the observable universe and what not. This is the light we can see from the galaxies that are not receding faster than light, because space is apparently expanding everywhere. Well technically we actually see about 1000 that are receding faster than light, but thats a digression into relativistic Doppler vs Newtonian Doppler.
So the size of the observable universe gets pinned at about 14 billion light years.
Also you may hear that the universe was the size of a grapefruit before the big bang. This makes you think that the universe is actually finite and makes you wonder whats outside. But they really mean is the size of the parts we can observe today were this big.
And for people who live in a galaxy say 10 billion light years away have their own observable portions of the universe that is different from ours. And during the big bang, the portions they can see now, where the size of a grapefruit.
So if the universe is infinite, at the big bang there are an infinite number of overlapping grapefruit sized sections. Which then expanded to an infinite number of 14 billion light year sections.
If it is finite, then perhaps someone is staring at a wall somewhere. - sid0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Dugg for the use of the mouse wheel, apart from general awesomeness.
- kurtu5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5When I said about 14 billion light years, I meant to say 46 in any direction.
- FeebleMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Anyone else reminded of Hitchhikers by this?
- cyphin6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Humbled comes to mind yet again, and remember were alone in the universe nothing exist except humans and god made everything end of story......ya right.
- JoeCool1986, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6uhhh.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/7577079@N07/440146561/
That what I got.... notice anything funny about that? - TheBritishGuy1, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10So, you want the human race to be perfect or just insanely large? I'm missing your point.
- webist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why not link to the site rather than to a blogthat references it?
- TheoDork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Um...electron?
- Salival, on 01/30/2008, -0/+3This will be dugg up in 2008!
- LR2_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You can scroll it yourself with the mouse wheel.
- Somniis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can click the units of measurement on the bottom to stop it from moving. Hovering over any object also stops it.
- TLAKABM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The flash says the outer limit of the universe is 13.7 billion light years and to quote the flash "the actual size of the universe".
I repeat, this is most definitely wrong.
Yes, I know the size of the universe is unknown (I never said it wasn't), but we know the universe is at least as big as the observable universe, and the observable universe is about 46 billion light years in all direction (like kurtu said).
Notice that 46 billion is greater than 13.7 billion.
I love how people called me wrong and then made comments that pretty much agree with me.
@jupi
Wikipedia was not my source, linking to Wikipedia's explanation was easier than writing my own. Or linking to a published, 10 page peer reviewed paper that would mean jack ***** to most people and nobody would bother to read. - wounded625, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this doesn't really help put things in perspective, i wish you could zoom out some and view things compared better. it was also confusing because the messages kept popping up and distracting me. oh well.
- BurstIntoFlames, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4O M F and to the G.
- Modiga, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4By the looks of it it's a parasite universe. My guess is either Terra or elves, depending on whether you play final fantasy or read discworld.
- 07041976, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is why we surf the web...
- T3hl33tg33k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They went through all that to advertise TWO products!
- SilverBack101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is just beautiful...thank you for the Internet. This is just beyond awesome. Absolutely permanently bookmarked.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wow, perfect time for my 24" wide screen monitor to arrive from dell. Simply amazing. We are but grains of sand on a beach that is our universe, and yet as powerful as the heavens.
- S8erpaintball, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Does it go forever?
EDIT: never mind...it wasn't finished - DocStrangelove, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Another older perspective
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1172643527768412929&q=powers+of+ten&hl=en - DonKarnage25, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yay! A link to a blog with a link to the actual site! How original.
- kizio, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Splendid! Not for me, definitely http://catszone.blogspot.com
- Chesterfield, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I saw this in 1968 (the first version done by Eames). I was a kid and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Well done for its time.
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Eeyore- God and rejection of Darwinism don't always go hand in hand.
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