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semmi — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:56:11 -0800

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:02:03 -0800

Cool. Thanks, semmi.

By: chrid

chrid — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:06:35 -0800

"I can see my house!"

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:06:59 -0800

Interesting that we still know much more about the macrocosm than the microcosm. Thanks for the link, semmi!

By: ChrisTN

ChrisTN — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:11:15 -0800

Wow...trippy. ::inhales, looks for Cheetos::

By: rmannion

rmannion — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:19:32 -0800

Almost verbatim...

By: KirkJobSluder

KirkJobSluder — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:26:08 -0800

Nice. Requires java though. It's another vision of the classic 1977 instructional video Powers of Ten. On preview, damn, forgot this was a dup.

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:26:54 -0800

At least the verbiage was taken from the site itself, rather than the duplicated post.

By: glenwood

glenwood — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:27:10 -0800

i knew i'd seen this durn thing before...

By: kamylyon

kamylyon — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:52:15 -0800

I don't care if it is a dup, it's neat. Thanks semmi.

By: gazingus

gazingus — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:55:40 -0800

Sheesh. They stop when they get to quarks. Pussies.

By: picea

picea — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:20:23 -0800

First I felt all small and insignificant, and then at the end, huge and godlike. Fear me, o puny quarks!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:42:20 -0800

dhartung mentioned it was linked in a comment when Tarrama first posted this and she apologized, modestly and sincerely. For re-posting a link from a comment! All the same, it was a first post. So, props to rmannion for the polite doublepost call here. I was ready to hop in, myself. I remembered Tarrama's link, too, and I suspect I can find it here via MeFi Googling *pause* and the answer is Yes! Ahem. Running text or titles of articles or institutions through MeFi Google, the lower box on the Search page, can quite easily catch a previous post even if the link itself no longer registers one. Make a note of it. It still is pretty darn cool.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:53:48 -0800

Hey there's Venus. Oh look, the Moon. Ah, the blue globe we call home. WHOA!!! FLORIDA! *[thh-TANG!-ng-ng-ng* That one zoom is like getting dick-whipped with America's Wang. Nice link, you sweat from a babboon's balls!

By: squirrel

squirrel — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:47:18 -0800

"I can see my house!" And right near by is your polling place. Look! No black people! Great piece of zoominess, repeat or not. Thanks!

By: meehawl

meehawl — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:20:22 -0800

Sometimes you just can't beat the old scalewise analogy comparison. One I like to use for atoms is (hoping I have the scales correct, I may be 10-100 off someplace): You know how small a millimetre is? Now imagine a tenth of that. It's like a tiny grain of sand. Imagine that is the nucleus of the atom. Then the nearest electron orbital begins pretty much around a million kilometres outwards from the nucleus. The electrons are tiny, infinitesimal pointlike particles with only 1/2000th of the mass of the smallest nucleus (a proton). And their paths are smeared out across across 20 million kilometres of space. And it's the repulsion between those very diffuse electron clouds that gives matter its volume and shape.

By: ChrisTN

ChrisTN — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:29:29 -0800

MetaFilter: like getting dick-whipped with America's Wang.

By: lazaruslong

lazaruslong — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:49:16 -0800

very cool, even if it is a dp. thanks!

By: y0mbo

y0mbo — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:49:47 -0800

phhhtt. That tree isn't even there anymore. Ivan got it.