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It's quite pretty, but to me still doesn't quite manage to convey the real scale of the universe. We zoom so rapidly from the solar system scale to the galaxy s
by hugh_ 17y ago
It's quite pretty, but to me still doesn't quite manage to convey the real scale of the universe. We zoom so rapidly from the solar system scale to the galaxy scale that we forget we've just gone up in scale by a factor of 10^9 or so. Then we do the same trick again in going from galaxy to universe scale.
- rbanffy 17y agoI don't know. What really hit home for me was the sphere of radio signals. To imagine that, from all that space we can see, that tiny little bubble is the frontier of where man is detectable. For the rest of the universe, we are only a tiny speck of rock orbiting a very average and unremarkable star.