From Tibet To Infinity

[Abzu]

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[captain twat. IV.]

Very thought provoking.

[Abzu]

This is some sort of awesome.

[TamPron]

that was neat

[Haunty]

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

[djonni greazo]

× infinity

[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.

[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.

[vO)))id]

thanks for posting! that was really cool

[Lavabug]

[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.

[Hugo.]

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.

[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.

[Abzu]

up quark down quark all around flying electron



Someone more talented should write a nursery rhyme about quarks.



Science nursery rhymes

[cat hallucination]

[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]

[Hugo.]

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

[Haunty]

[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.

[Abzu]

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

[Hugo.]

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