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Powers of 10; IBM documentary about distances & sizes.
Topic Started: Dec 30 2009, 02:46 PM (353 Views)
Kain
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As I searched for new documentaries to watch, I came across this little gem made by IBM in 1977. It explores distances and sizes, going as big as 10^ 24, and as small as 10^ -16 square meters.

Powers of 10

Mind boggling, isn't it? There are things that big in space that makes us seem so microscopic, and yet things so small that we can't even imagine compose every chunk of matter in the vast Universe. Makes the mind wander...
Edited by Kain, Dec 30 2009, 02:47 PM.
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Powers of 10 is interesting, but pretty old. Try this video, it doesn't get tiny, but it has a much cooler view of the universe than Powers of 10 does.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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