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Scale of the Universe.

Discussion in 'SCIENCE!!' started by Sergiu64, Mar 12, 2012.

  1. Sergiu64 Learned

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    Pretty cool for understanding the difference in scales between stuff:

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120312.html

    Couple things caught my eye:

    Wtf is a Japanese Spider Crab :eek:
    California is bigger then Italy
    Neutron Stars are surprisingly small.

  2. hiver Dumbfuck!

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    Ive seen a very similar visualization some time ago.. ah yes, http://scaleofuniverse.com/
    Bit faster and has music. Same author.

    Funky stuff, its damn impressive going down to Planck length. Thats fucking deep.

  3. Lyric Suite Arcane

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    When i still had my job as a cad engineer i would sometimes play games on autocad when i had nothing better to do, but the boss was around so browsing the web was out of the question. One of those games was to create objects of various dimensions then compare the scale of each object. What i got was something similar to that.

  4. DarkUnderlord Janitor

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    Damn you! I was going to post this.

    It would have been my first SCIENCE!! topic. Although I was given this link: http://htwins.net/scale2/

    Also, fucking Japanese Spider Crabs!

    [IMG]

  5. Phelot RPG Codex Staff

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    Are those things still around?

    EDIT: Nevermind, I see that they are.

    Also, fucking Japanese, when something is getting fished out of existence it simply means you must fish for them even more.

  6. SCO Arcane

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    "The great wall of china and the 3 gorges dam do not qualify as building".

    Ice burn baby.

    edit: and the actual text on it :lol:

    The wiki about the Eridanus supervoid is interesting.

  7. hoodoo Arbiter

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    spider crabs yummy?

  8. GarfunkeL Racism Expert

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    This is indeed pretty awesome. Love scrolling back and forth.

  9. TripJack Hedonist Patron

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    lets fly to the supervoid bros :obviously:
    Chef_Hathaway Brofists this.

  10. DraQ Arcane

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    The text reminds me of Willy Trombone.

  11. Chef_Hathaway King of the Juice

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    Indeed. I hope it's a portal to another universe. A cold spot would just be lame.

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