Some Mind Blowing Science for Tuesday

[Hamma]

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

Shamelessly stolen from Manitou on IRC.

[Manitou]

Originally Posted by Hamma

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

Shamelessly stolen from Manitou on IRC.

[Warborn]

I always like stuff like this. It's crazy how amazingly tiny and insignificant the Earth really is when you look at the size of the universe.

[Lonehunter]

But even ET's should understand the significance of Planetside 2

I love how at the very end "Estimated size of the universe" lol

[Canaris]

only thing missings is a "You are here" sign at max zoom out

Love things like this, thanks for sharing

[Manitou]

Did you guys catch the size of the Minecraft world?

[Hamma]

That was the best part I think

[Tom Peters]

Holy crap... that observable universe versus estimated size...

[Electrofreak]

Mind = blown.

I've read stuff that attempts to describe these scales but this is an enlightening perspective!

[Crator]

Very neat!

[BUGGER]

Going smaller and smaller felt like I was diving into a Looney Toons cartoon.

[Baneblade]

I want some Quantum Foam.

[Whalenator]

This is so old, gash.
I saw this three years ago. Get with it, guys.

[Fenrys]

I think its funny how we say "enough is enough, we're not willing to deal with anything smaller than this" at the planck length

[Ailos]

No, the enough is enough part is just 'cos we don't have any tools to see beyond that currently (probably not for a while until we can figure out a good way around the planck wavelength), but there are people curious beyond that.