Achilles Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 My kids asked me to dust off this youtube clip this morning and I realized that it had been a while since I'd seen it too. Considering the perspective that it offers regarding our relative place in the universe, I thought it might make for an interesting topic in Kavar's. Enjoy.
Darth InSidious Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 How could you be so cruel as to expose children to the Total Perspective Vortex?! In all seriousness, that is very humbling. But humility is something we should, I think, value more in this day and age.
JediKnight707 Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 No, this doesn't really make me feel any less smaller. The reason? I'm the only one of those that is smart enough to be able to know that I am in fact smaller.
tk102 Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Nice video Achilles. Maybe you'd also enjoy witnessing infinity -- a linked video from yours. Bonus:
Achilles Posted August 1, 2007 Author Posted August 1, 2007 Maybe you'd also enjoy witnessing infinity -- a linked video from yours. I feel like narcotics should be involved. Bonus: I feel the need to go watch the movie Pi.
tk102 Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 I feel the need to go watch the movie Pi. Is it like my book, Joy of Pi?
Achilles Posted August 1, 2007 Author Posted August 1, 2007 "A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature." http://imdb.com/title/tt0138704/ Your kind of movie, teekay P.S. Yes, I own it.
PoiuyWired Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 My kids asked me to dust off this youtube clip this morning and I realized that it had been a while since I'd seen it too. Considering the perspective that it offers regarding our relative place in the universe, I thought it might make for an interesting topic in Kavar's. Enjoy. Knowing that yourself is small, thats one thing. Being humbled, thats another. It is unfortunate that most things on the list are unlikely to be populated by sentients, plus bigger does not equal to better. Its liike, the old GIGANTIC xbox does not perform better than a 360. But it is quite a viedo, but would be better with some sound.
Web Rider Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 How could you be so cruel as to expose children to the Total Perspective Vortex?! Nah, it's not the Total Perspective Vortex, it doesn't even touch on the scale of solar systems, galaxies, and universes. I mean, laying all those things out in scale is REALLY cool and all, but if you spread them out over their distances, the sheer size of space is what's amazing. In any case, I agree with PW that it needs some sound, but it otherwise cool. "Do you have any idea what it's like to be a manically depressed robot?" EDIT: AH! Here is it, now this is a Total Perspective Vortex.
MacTavish Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Wow, I couldnt believe how big the VV Cephei was!
tk102 Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Nice music in that Web Rider. Quite a trip, 10 billion light-years. Here's another from a different perspective -- one from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Achilles Posted August 1, 2007 Author Posted August 1, 2007 Ha! I have that one in my favorites too (another one that the kids love to watch). EDIT: This pic is something else that I like to dust off from time to time. In order to get a hint of the magnitude, you have to look at the enlarged view.
mimartin Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 All I can think to write is “Size does not matter.” Nice video.
Achilles Posted August 1, 2007 Author Posted August 1, 2007 I think it's safe to say that mimartin wins the Zaphod Beeblebrox Award
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