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Very thought provoking.

This is some sort of awesome.

that was neat

[quote name="TAM TAM"]that was neat[/quote]

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I used to zoom out of my apartment/street all the way out of the galaxy in Celestia all the time. There are only a few galaxy models in Celestia though, this is neat.

[quote name="Lavabug"]I used to zoom out of my apartment/street all the way out of the galaxy in Celestia all the time. There are only a few galaxy models in Celestia though, this is neat.[/quote]

Sometimes, when I get bored, I just follow ISS for awhile.

thanks for posting! that was really cool

[quote name="abzu"]
[quote name="Lavabug"]I used to zoom out of my apartment/street all the way out of the galaxy in Celestia all the time. There are only a few galaxy models in Celestia though, this is neat.[/quote]

Sometimes, when I get bored, I just follow ISS for awhile.[/quote]

Watching the earth rotate from that point of view is quite neat. I recall reading all the positions and movement of satellites, planets and stars in Celestia are real-time and to scale. You can even speed it up for fun.



I tried speeding it up a shitload and then zooming out of the galaxy but I couldn't notice any galaxies moving apart from each other. Maybe they've added that in a newer version.

Great post.



Solar system diagrams are really misleading. I read that if drawn to scale, with the sun the size of a pin prick, pluto would be a microscopic dot 500 meters away.

[quote name="MorbidAngle"]Great post.



Solar system diagrams are really misleading. I read that if drawn to scale, with the sun the size of a pin prick, pluto would be a microscopic dot 500 meters away.[/quote]

On a related note, the typical image of the atom is also very misleading in very much the same way(big cluster with electrons orbiting quite closely to it(. If a nucleus was the size of a dust spec, the nearest electron would be orbiting around it as far as the radius of an American football stadium.

up quark down quark all around flying electron



Someone more talented should write a nursery rhyme about quarks.



Science nursery rhymes

[quote name="Lavabug"]

On a related note, the typical image of the atom is also very misleading in very much the same way(big cluster with electrons orbiting quite closely to it(. If a nucleus was the size of a dust spec, the nearest electron would be orbiting around it as far as the radius of an American football stadium.[/quote]

It's amazing, also, how atoms are composed by such a ridiculously high percentage of empty space.

[quote name="Lavabug"]
[quote name="MorbidAngle"]Great post.



Solar system diagrams are really misleading. I read that if drawn to scale, with the sun the size of a pin prick, pluto would be a microscopic dot 500 meters away.[/quote]

On a related note, the typical image of the atom is also very misleading in very much the same way(big cluster with electrons orbiting quite closely to it(. If a nucleus was the size of a dust spec, the nearest electron would be orbiting around it as far as the radius of an American football stadium.[/quote]



Awesome.

So much of the universe is just space... whether "inside" matter or not. It is a very zen thing to think on.

Sometimes when i'm bored, i like to fire neutrons at things. I'm always amazed when most of them pass through unhindered.