Tuesday, September 23, 2008

relative sizes

i never get tired of visual effects used to showcase the relative sizes of planets and stars.




the music is Rubber Bullet by stakka and K Tee. i found the video from digg via neat-o-rama.

if you like this, check out the powers of ten video by the eames, played to the galaxy song by monty python: HERE.

or see how hurricanes relate to spiral galaxies and brain cells relate to large scale structure in the universe!

7 comments:

  1. Very awesome, videos like this always give me good-bumps XD.

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  2. Oh very nice.

    "Small blue dot" is about right, although you'd need a powerful magnifying glass to see it. =8O

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  3. Oh, I love stuff like this...

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  4. ... by which of course I mean "pale blue dot". Shoot me now. =#)

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  5. Great find!

    Linkback (and link to powers of 10).

    http://mangsbatpage.433rd.com/2008/09/planets-and-stars-video-just-how-big.html

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  6. Very nice, the music too. You know, 'Pluto' looks suspiciously like Ganymede ...

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  7. Cool video! Too bad I can't even see Earth because Antares was waay to big.

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