Scale of the Universe

[Cortexian]

This is kinda neat, if not entirely accurate:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

[Reaper Man]

Wow, awesome!

[Choking Victim]

I like this one better:
17jymDn0W6U

Shows the extent of our radio communication signals, which don't go very far compared to the cosmic horizon. I just wish it started at the scale of an elementary particle.

[Hotrod]

So...basically it's telling us that the universe is really fucking huge? :P

But yeah, both those videos are pretty damn epic. I've always loved anything space related.

[Cojafoji]

choking's was wayyyyy better.

[Cortexian]

Uh, one's a video and one is an interactive scale...

[Ganon]

Wow choking sweet video

[Yoko]

I like this one better. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U)

Shows the extent of our radio communication signals, which don't go very far compared to the cosmic horizon. I just wish it started at the scale of an elementary particle.


Holy shit, that's crazy.

[ICEE]

Wow great thread choking.




No but really thats pretty awesome

[Cortexian]

What happened in this thread.

[Rob Oplawar]

In the immortal words of Neo: "Whoa."

[DEElekgolo]

17jymDn0W6U

[paladin]

^^ better in my opinion

[Cortexian]

17jymDn0W6U
Choking already posted this...

[DEElekgolo]

http://deelekgolo.codebrainshideout.net/Pics/2010-04-02_2344.png
http://deelekgolo.codebrainshideout.net/Pics/2010-04-02_2344_001.png


Unless his original post had the video in it and he edited something else.
Otherwise: kk.

[Cortexian]

All he did was switch from a link to an embedded video, staff can confirm by comparing the edited/non-edited post if you want proof lol... ;)

[Choking Victim]

All he did was switch from a link to an embedded video, staff can confirm by comparing the edited/non-edited post if you want proof lol... ;)
Indeed I did. Also, I didn't mean to hijack, I genuinely believed it was related and awesome.

[killer9856]

Both are awesome. I liked the scale one, since it went to the smallest sizes. Nevertheless, space is awesome

[DEElekgolo]

Anyone got that animated gif showing the scale of our sun compared to other stars?

[Cojafoji]

Not the gif, but it's all the same.

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/8486/spaceh.jpg

[kid908]

I feel soooooo unimportant each time I think of shit like this.


offtopic: would showing an emo kid this be considered murder?:haw:

To add to the collection here's my contribution.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1768855/the_size_of_all_planets_are_relative/

[Dwood]

There's an animated gif that shows the scale of the universe.... It also shows the scale included with a gurren Lagann thing. :)

[ODX]

Actually this thing is thought to be the biggest star: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris
2,505,600,000-2,923,200,000 km across

as opposed to VV Cephei
2,227,200,000 to 2,644,800,000 km across

(Estimates of course, but you can see Canis' range is still higher overall)

Edit: Looking back at what Cojafoji posted though ( http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/8486/spaceh.jpg ) It mentions Cephai and says it's the largest known, but right above it said that Canis Majoris was ._.