Scale of the Universe Interactive Player

Solar

Check this out.

Probably someone has posted something similar before but I thought this was pretty great. Seriously, my mind? It is blown.

Fearghaill

I don't think you could have screwed up the URL code more.

Cool link though.

Fearghaill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyzNgmaibMc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk

YoSoyTheWalrus

I don't see my wang in there

Solar

Well the thing bottoms out at the Planck length so...

Fearghaill

To be fair, they can only speculate what things look like when you zoom in that far.

Antimatter

my god

its full of elephants

Barcardi

who in the hell has a 1 meter diameter beach ball?

redhead

i enjoyed this

Abracadaniel

Fearghaill wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyzNgmaibMc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk

you forgot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdWlSF195Y

you shame yourself

Fearghaill

Smart Hero wrote: »

Fearghaill wrote: »

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyzNgmaibMc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk

you forgot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdWlSF195Y

you shame yourself

:^:

I prefer this version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbgul1NpEA8

Hacksaw

You're all forgetting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I

Staleghoti

pretty cool link

Mr Fuzzbutt

Thank goodness for logarithmically scaled sliding bars.

Tarranon

why i gotta do everything around here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsnELWjsCsA

The Geek

Modest Mouse is not good.

Goatmon

I don't think the band is all bad. Just Isaac Brock's singing.

AMP'd

bad opinions up in this thread

Staleghoti

The Geek wrote: »

Modest Mouse is not good.

Get



OUT

YoSoyTheWalrus

Solar wrote: »

Well the thing bottoms out at the Planck length so...

I knew this was coming before I was even done typing yet I still hit the submit button

Tarranon

The Geek wrote: »

Modest Mouse is not good.

the great thing about being so confident in my taste is that i can just sit here being right

I Win Swordfights

Jesus Christ, Modest Mouse being not good?

Not liking them is one thing

Calling them not good is flat out retarded

The Third Murderer

I wonder if it is powered by a cupcake.

Barcardi

The original... powered by creepy music, still the best one though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&feature=related

This one, powered by God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPm3QVKlBJg

Green

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness of space. The child: What is beyond space? The father: The galaxy. The child: Beyond the galaxy? The father: Another galaxy. The child: Beyond the other glaxies? The father: No one knows.

You see? Size defeats us.

Tonkka

I feel so insignificant.

Of course, I always feel insignificant.

Solar

I always think it's amazing just how average we are. I mean, you can't say the Universe is so big, and we are so small, because in reality we're not all that small, there are things much smaller, we just sort of hang around in the middle.

It's cool that we, as a species, know this shit though. I like that.

SimBen

But are we really, though? Ever think that it's possible that the only reason it seems to us like we're average is because that's as far as our perception goes in either direction? What if it turns out there are things much, much bigger than the universe or much smaller than the smallest concepts we can conceive of? What if we're nowhere near the middle?

Dude pass me that shit again that shit's good.

Mr Fuzzbutt

I find it incredible that I can be so small in the grand scheme of things, yet somehow be so darn awesome.

A duck!

Crow T. Robot wrote: »

I feel so insignificant.

Of course, I always feel insignificant.

Solar

SimBen wrote: »

But are we really, though? Ever think that it's possible that the only reason it seems to us like we're average is because that's as far as our perception goes in either direction? What if it turns out there are things much, much bigger than the universe or much smaller than the smallest concepts we can conceive of? What if we're nowhere near the middle?

Dude pass me that shit again that shit's good.

Maaaaannn.

Science always gets me like that. Like when I read a book about how Electrons behave differently if you're looking at them, like they know you are watching. How the fuck that even works I have no idea, but it blew my mind and it still does now.

BYToady

Solar wrote: »

SimBen wrote: »

But are we really, though? Ever think that it's possible that the only reason it seems to us like we're average is because that's as far as our perception goes in either direction? What if it turns out there are things much, much bigger than the universe or much smaller than the smallest concepts we can conceive of? What if we're nowhere near the middle?

Dude pass me that shit again that shit's good.

Maaaaannn.

Science always gets me like that. Like when I read a book about how Electrons behave differently if you're looking at them, like they know you are watching. How the fuck that even works I have no idea, but it blew my mind and it still does now.

Basically there is no way you can measure an electron that doesn't involve poking it with something.

jackal

You ask too many questions, kid. Go get me a beer, and I will tell you all I know about string theory.

SimBen

jackal wrote: »

You ask too many questions, kid. Go get me a beer, and I will tell you all I know about string theory.

Son, a string is a lot like a... a refrigerator! They're about six feet tall, 300 pounds. They make ice, and... um... Oh, wait a minute. Actually, a string is more like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another string!

And I say oh, yeah? Well if you want that money, come and find it, 'cause I don't know where it is ya baloney. You make me wanna retch.

Antimatter

Even big collections of ordinary books distort space and time, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned second-hand bookshop, one of those that has more staircases than storeys and those rows of shelves that end in little doors that are surely too small for a full sized human to enter.
The relevant equation is Knowledge = Power = Energy = Matter = Mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. Mass distorts space into polyfractal L-space, in which Everywhere is also Everywhere Else.

The Geek

I Win Swordfights wrote: »

Jesus Christ, Modest Mouse being not good?

Not liking them is one thing

Calling them not good is flat out retarded

Ok, fair enough. I haven't listened to their music enough to determine if they are technically "good". The couple of songs by them that I've heard were so goddamned irritating that I had no reason to try to listen to anything else they've done.

AMP'd

if it's too loud

you're too old

The Geek

Irritating does not mean loud.