Scale: the impact depends on the viewer.
You could see everything in this in 10 seconds.
I spent a good 10 minutes, myself.
I feel very small.
But it's a shame that it didn't show parsecs in the scale.
However, it did teach me about the yottameter. Yotta was not a prefix that I had heretofore known. Interesting. It looks very useful. Well, to someone.
Labels: science, things you find on the InterWeb
posted by Matt G @ 2:48 AM
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That was the most fun I've had on the internets in some time. Sheer genius!
Tell me, did you run the slider back and forth a few times yelling "Wheee!", or is that just me?
For a minute I though you were talking about the Yactometers... :-) And yeah, we're pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
Hell, yes, I did.
But only after first saying "Whoa!"
"Yotta was not a prefix that I had heretofore known. Interesting. It looks very useful. Well, to someone."
I'm afraid it'll come in handy for describing the national debt pretty soon...
We're all small from the god-view.
I understand the ultimate utility, but it also reminds me that many of us have too much time. Then again, as long as responsibilities are met, who am I to judge?
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