Honey, I Finished The Internet

17 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

1. Thank heavens for the quick-access planetary links at the page top!

2. I scrolled twice before it clicked…

3. I’m already tired and I just passed Mars. Time for a nap.

4. You could spruce that up a bit if you had Margaret Atwood narrating….

5. What a neat way to illustrate the scale of astronomical distances. And an excellent illustration of the relative sizes and distances of our nearest heavenly bodies.
   So what do you suppose is causing all this global warming we are experiencing – that big yellow object at far left, or that imperceptible layer of ‘carbon’ around the flyspeck 152,194,502 Km to the right?

6. A web page desperately in need of a warp drive. Actually, the javascript source is far more interesting. Yes, it does give one a feeling for the emptiness of the solar system but anyone with a modicum of mathematics is already aware of that. A far more informative presentation was one that started with a closeup view of the Andromeda galaxy and then zoomed in at a rapid pace until one was looking at individual atoms. Neat to see, but I regularly explore further down into the Mandelbrot set than that particular visualization of multiple orders of magnitude. Exploring the Mandelbrot set with a program that can handle a range of 10^256; now that’s impressive.

7. Wow.
   I feel even smaller.

8. Now, that’s funny…

9. I hope you never get an itch to see Uranus.
   I don’t want to see Uranus or Plutos either.

10. Tediously accurate indeed. But compelling.

11. The Horror! The Horror!
    Another reason SDA is good. How rare it is to be able to pass a dissenting comment about a “Canadian Icon”.

12. I seen it!

13. I actually was engaged by this. Some of the comments that are put there by the composer every few x?/million kilometers on a blank screen are interesting and some trivial. What is an hour or more scrolling through empty space in a revery? Persistence pays.
    Anybody remember Appleby from Catch22? Who wanted more than anything else to be bored? As opposed to dead? Before making it in a MaeWest and raft from the eastern Med to Sweden?
    Black Mamba ScaNdi sKIFOoT ennui.
    I especially liked the comment on screen at about 3.3B klicks that if this was a Hydrogen proton shown to the same scale as our Helios/Pluto; that on that scale the gap to the nearest electron (in its lowest potential shell on average) would be about eleven times the distance from Sun to explanet Pluto as portrayed; he stated that the whole process was about 1662 screen widths by pixel count, Sun to Pluto so 11 by 1662 is 18282. I will take his word for that. Mathematically I do have not a nous but this is visceral.

14. Not rare here. Obligatory, I’d say.

15. Skip. The comment was intended elsewhere but got forwarded.

16. Reminded me of a lefties brain.

17. The video you’re talking about is called Powers of Ten. Here is the 1977 original, and the updated version can be found here and here.