Yeah, that's been around a little while, now. Good for putting stuff in perspective. I always like the phrase that on that scale, with your typical star on one side, and an atom on the other, human beings fall roughly in the middle.
Also, I have to complain that they started three steps further down than they had to. The visible universe is a good 13 billion light years across, so they could easily have started with the Hubble Deep Field, then switched to various composite images from the Orion supercluster moving in. I mean, they already faked the Milky Way and everything below a few microns, they couldn't have faked a little more? I can understand them not wanting to guess at quark structure, but large-scale structure's pretty well known...
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Date: 2003-09-19 11:46 pm (UTC)Also, I have to complain that they started three steps further down than they had to. The visible universe is a good 13 billion light years across, so they could easily have started with the Hubble Deep Field, then switched to various composite images from the Orion supercluster moving in. I mean, they already faked the Milky Way and everything below a few microns, they couldn't have faked a little more? I can understand them not wanting to guess at quark structure, but large-scale structure's pretty well known...
Sorry, I can't help but criticize.
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Date: 2003-09-19 11:57 pm (UTC)