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I'd really like to see a few more markers: 1) 3100 px: Farthest humans have been from Earth (Apollo 13, April '70: 400,171 km) 2) 10 px: Gemini 11, farthest
by brownbat 14y ago
I'd really like to see a few more markers:
1) 3100 px: Farthest humans have been from Earth (Apollo 13, April '70: 400,171 km)
2) 10 px: Gemini 11, farthest from Earth on non-lunar mission (Sept '66: 1,374.1 km)
3) 3 px: Apogee of ISS (farthest a human has traveled for... a while: 424 km) (I'm probably forgetting something, can't find a good list of spaceflights by distance...)
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records#Farthest_humans_from_Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records#Far...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
Taking Earth's diameter as 12,742 km (though it bulges by about 43 km in the center), we're saying that's 100 px. So if my basic algebra is right (no promises) you can convert the above km values to px by dividing by 127.42.
- sho_hn 14y agoI think the value of this is in its focus and simplicity. There have been other websites using zooms and/or scrolling to visualize scale differences (e.g. http://scaleofuniverse.com/ http://scaleofuniverse.com/), but this is an elegant statement about just one fact, and I think that's more likely to get the ball rolling in someone's brain and amaze them than inundating them with trivia all at once (but thanks for the trivia just the same :).
- X-Istence 14y agoEvery time I see that page it makes me realise just how small and insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things, and how badly I really want to go exploring everything that is out there.
- Ntrails 14y agoYet you could spend an entire lifetime exploring everything that is 'here', and still not manage it. Space is unfathomably big, and we are a grain of sand on the beach of the universe. But that grain of sand contains enough complexity and variety to fascinate for a practically unlimited period of time. Mars is cool, and grand, and inconceivably different. I'd rather see the cherry blossoms in Japan, or go for a walk in the outback, or see tierra del fuego (sp?). And really, it's not even just the big things on my (long) list, but the billion other little things that one can do and see on this world given time and resources to wander from place to place exploring and experiencing.
- khafra 14y agoSpace is boring. Flyunder territory.
- thangalin 14y agoI made a 3D render of a flyby. I should have added markers from the space programs into the video. The video shows how long it would take to reach all the planets, if you flew at a constant velocity (about 10x light speed). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0JMaM_tdQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0JMaM_tdQ
- bebop 14y agowell done!
- jobigoud 14y ago"3) 3 px: Apogee of ISS (farthest a human has traveled for... a while: 424 km) (I'm probably forgetting something, can't find a good list of spaceflights by distance...)" You're forgetting STS-125, the last Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, March 2009, Apogee 578 Km.
- xefer 14y agoSeveral years ago J. Richard Gott and Mario Jurić of Princeton put together an awesome logarithmic map of the entire universe: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/ http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/
- fabriceleal 14y agoI would like to see Voyager 1 (about 1.847×10^10 km, accordingly to wikipedia [1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1 [EDIT] 1000 to 10^10 :P
- fabriceleal 14y agoThats about 144953696 px if my calculations aren't failing.