I thought this was a good bit of fun... and nothing...

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

Such things are always useful, to wrap our mind around the scales at stake there (xkcd also offers some good scales comparison stuff, on various subjects).

It also kinda shatters most old school scifi, unfortunately (I love "space 1999", but...). As well as comet-collision-alert journalism.

That was quite nice. Cheers

Reminds me a bit about this classic tool - http://htwins.net/scale2/

Those were nice, thanks :)

Very old classic: Powers of ten



P.s: Amok, at 10^7.8 there's "Minecraft World"! LOL

That is pretty cool, great for the kids.

"...and if the moon were made of spare ribs, would you eat it?"

There was a thing on NatGeo channel the other day specifically about putting "universal distance" into perspective. All it succeeded in doing was making my head explode. :P

Whoa, space porn!

(It's blocked in Russia. No kidding. Fuck censorship.)

I don't mean to sound naive, but are there really enormous sentences just floating around in space??

yes, you can see the closest once with the naked eye from the south hemisphere in months Jun-August, if it is really dark and you look north.

ALL









THAT











































EMPTINESS












!!!!!!!!!!!










O.O

All that nothing... VOTE NOTHING! ;)

So common how many got to the end?!

Well that was interesting... I got all the way to the end, and let me say, if not for the text, I would of went crazy with all that blank space.

And here I was trying to go to sleep already :D

Bookmarked! (this thread, too! :D).

Yay for a 4960 px wide desktop :-) (or I could turn the secondary monitors around and get another 800 px)