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Fantastic Voyage

Sax

13:05 / 24.04.06

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

It's a trip, man

Claris Dancers

15:18 / 24.04.06

Reminds me of a movie reel I saw in 7th grade called Cosmic Zoom. Pretty cool.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

17:21 / 24.04.06

Powers of 10 is a classic among educational films. I have seen it in classes from middle school to freshmen year at University and always dig it.

When I saw Coldplay live recently the had it playing on a jumbo screen while they play The Scientist.

Good times.

Olulabelle

09:13 / 09.05.06

I've got a question. It might be a bit stupid.

If the scientists who made this used telescopes to look at stars however many billion light years away, how have they then turned that view around and looked in effect at themselves? How do they have a photograph of our solar system from one light year away showing the sun in the centre?

13:27 / 09.05.06

We don't have actual photos of Earth and the solar system taken from many light years away (or even one light year away, unless I'm very much mistaken), but we do have computer simulation and extrapolation.

We know what the Earth looks like from space at a relatively short distance, due to photos take by astronauts and space probes. It's not too difficult to extrapolate what Earth and our solar system probably looks like from light years away.

grant

19:47 / 10.05.06

It's a quid pro quo arrangement between NASA and the Zeta Reticulans. One of the fruits of Area 51, my friends.

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