How big are we on a Universal Scale (cool animation).
 

This is pretty cool, check this out:

http://www.primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

It's an animation where they take the sizes of various things, from the smallest things in existence to the largest and they put it on a slider scale so you can slide from smallest to largest. Along the way they include interesting facts and figures. It's set to go from "human size" (1.7 meters) initially, but you can go all the way down to the smallest thing that humans know about, then move the slider up through atoms, pit on a CD, bacteria, microprocessors, smaller organisms like ants and worms, then up to human-sized and further into the size of mountains, the earth, distance between earth and the moon, allllll the way up to the full length and breadth of the area that humans can see in our telescopes and finally to the size of the entire universe.

Enjoy!

Pretty cool. :up:

Reminds me of a device in one of Douglas Adams' "Hitchiker" books(can't remember which one right now nor the name of the device).

There's a device that you go into and the whole expanse of the entire universe is shown to you with a microscopic dot with a microscopic sign on it that says, "You Are Here".
You are so reduced to insignificance that your mind can't fathom it and you go insane.

That was my last coherent thought that popped into my mind when I saw this before I went completely mad. :88)

:)

That would be the dreaded Total Perspective Vortex, I believe it was in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Speaking of Douglas Adams:

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen..."

:haha:

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But on topic: really cool link Feuer Frei! :yeah:

Thx Feuer Frei! :up:

Very cool.:up:

suddenly I feel very small. I'm going to go outside.

the universe is so big that its a known impossibility that there isnt some other form of life in the universe apart from earth. It truly is.

No, it's not. It's a fair assumption, but nothing about it is known. There may be millions, or there may be none, but it is not known at all.

Mind-boggling :o

Don't panic

What amazes me as much as whats out there on a grander scale, is the fact that the scale continues in the smaller direction as well, and as far as we know we haven't yet reached the end of that trail- it may also be 'infinite'. And many of the things that exist on that smaller scale would be deemed aliens if we were to find them on another world, bacteria for example, and we have millions of them living on us and in us, yet in reality we know very little about them.

Its mind-boggling in both directions....

That is a freakin' amazing find, friend. Added to bookmarks.

Nice find, thanks for posting. So, humans are over 1/2 way on the scale, meaning there's more smaller than larger than us?

...and to think, God knows the exact count, mass, and location of every particle of this.... :hmmm:

Thats just an unsupported assertion Neal.