One day people, very soon, I will serenade that chair with a ukulele, make unbridled passionate whoopie with it then drink a double martini just to wake in the morning and die from a full on red meat coronary while mowing the lawn next to my Buick as my Marlboro smolders to dust. posted by I love you more when I eat paint chips at 11:11 PM on January 26, 2011 [1 favorite]
THANK YOU for posting this -- i saw 'powers of ten' on pbs as a kid and it -->blew my mind<-- posted by mrmarley at 12:34 AM on January 27, 2011
Just the right thread to throw in this very interesting review of a new book out on the Eameses (via @bruces whose snarkfilled comment made me click through "Let Ray and Charles get married already") posted by infini at 12:51 AM on January 27, 2011
The Elmer Bernstein soundtrack is utterly perfect for the film. posted by flapjax at midnite at 3:40 AM on January 27, 2011
the little video that has it all! posted by Redhush at 4:03 AM on January 27, 2011
I would watch this in a teeny little theatre, where it was the only movie on the bill, pretty much every time I visited the Ontario Science Centre. Which was a lot of times. Mind blown every time. posted by not_that_epiphanius at 7:00 AM on January 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
The "YouTube Views" video says "Every 5 seconds you'll see YouTube videos that were "viewed" as many times as the exponent shown," but quicky goes past 10^9 and on to 10^teens.
I'd be a little surprised if any YouTube video had 10^9 views, though. This list of highly-viewed videos claims the top slot has only about that many.
It's pretty much a given that no YouTube video has as many as 10^12 views. posted by Western Infidels at 7:43 AM on January 27, 2011
I would watch this in a teeny little theatre, where it was the only movie on the bill, pretty much every time I visited the Ontario Science Centre. Which was a lot of times. Mind blown every time.
You too, huh?
Can someone tell me what I am missing with the Powers of 10: Youtube video? If a video has 10^24 views, that means everyone on earth has seen it an average of roughly 150,000,000,000,000 times. Which seems a little high, except maybe for that dramatic chipmunk. posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:02 AM on January 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
That's about the size of it
Favoriting this 10^∞ times. posted by xedrik at 8:58 AM on January 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
Maybe the makers of the "YouTube Views" version intended that the sum of the views of all the videos excerpted in a five-second interval added up to the exponent shown during that interval. That would get you to 10^9 easily enough, but I still don't see how you'd hit 10^12 that way. You'd need to excerpt 1,000 videos with 10^9 views each. In five seconds. posted by Western Infidels at 9:15 AM on January 27, 2011
I would watch this in a teeny little theatre, where it was the only movie on the bill, pretty much every time I visited the Ontario Science Centre.
Surely there must have been Canadian Content back then and you actually watched Cosmic Zoom posted by Neiltupper at 10:51 AM on January 27, 2011
HOLY SHIT! We watched that in school all the time. I had no idea it was made by the Eames dudes. I love that deja vu feeling that brings you right back to 6th grade when you hear that voice. posted by spicynuts at 11:32 AM on January 27, 2011
Ahh. Soldiers Field, where the Bearses play. posted by Sk4n at 4:49 PM on January 27, 2011
I had no idea it was made by the Eames dudes.
Ray Eames was a lady, and Charles Eames was her husband. posted by Sidhedevil at 5:22 PM on January 27, 2011
you actually watched Cosmic Zoom
Nope, but you had me going for a minute there, especially since the YT video gives a 1977 release date, which would have been too late. That was a re-release, the original release date is 1968.
I definitely recall the picknicking guy, but not the narration. I wonder if that was the same in the earlier version. I can't dig this info up at imdb, wikipedia or the film's own site. posted by not_that_epiphanius at 12:14 AM on January 29, 2011
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