File[The Scale of the Universe.swf] - (3.38 MB)
[_] [?] Mind blown 100% Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)01:20 No.1173120
This is your mind. :D
This is your mind after you see this flash. :o...
Prepare to have your mind blown.
Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)01:21 No.1173122
Wait until you see how much is bigger than a red blood cell. Fuck...I never thought of it like
this. Jesus.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)01:22 No.1173123
>>1173120
>>1173122
Yes, samefag btw. Me. And me again, makes 3.
Just stuff I forgot in the first comment.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)01:30 No.1173126
/r/ song
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)01:31 No.1173127
AIDS can't get through the smallest transistor gate of a microprocessor. We should now all become
robots.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)01:31 No.1173128
How have I never heard of 7 meter earthworms...
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)01:33 No.1173129
I got to the end expecting an Xbox...
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)01:40 No.1173137
>>1173126
the game Spore actually...
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)01:46 No.1173139
I actually thought the estimated size of the universe was 146 billion light years instead of 93
billion.
Oh well, big as shit anyway.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)01:58 No.1173149
Damn... That seriously did blow my mind.
I just spent the last 20 min scrolling back and forth, just trying to comprehend the distances
involved.
The universe is fucking amazing.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)02:00 No.1173151
This is the highest quality thing that has ever been posted on 4chan
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)02:18 No.1173159
Really puts us in our place - the works of man, even including things we've manipulated through
our theories - we've proven our knowledge of atoms and so-on by splitting them - is an incredibly
small portion of the slider.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)02:29 No.1173165
.....I never appreciated how much skill I had in makign measurements of 1-10,000th of an inch by
eye before doing work on laser optics. And that's nothing.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)02:35 No.1173170
I liked that.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)02:47 No.1173175
quite interesting
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)02:56 No.1173178
OP here.
>>1173159
I've thought that exact same thing before, so many times.
I saw a picture of all of the different discovered stars, it was comparing the sizes of them.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Star-sizes.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg
Check those out. That is just the biggest DISCOVERED star. Scientists say they haven't discovered
over 99.99999% of whats out there.
God we're fucking small. In the scale and scheme of TIME and SIZE, as it is with the UNIVERSE, we
don't matter at all. We're like, a dead skin flake compared to the true size of the universe. Our
sun, our moon, our earth, Saturn and all of those huge planets, they're nothing compared to
these. It could take thousands, millions of our planets to measure the size of that sun, VY Canis
Majoris.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)02:57 No.1173180
I Cried.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:00 No.1173184
made my evening
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:01 No.1173187
OP once more.
It makes my breath catch in my throat, to think of the sheer scale, the SIZE, of some of the
things in this universe. We die knowing so little overall, we die not mattering at all. Sure,
people might remember our names if we're famous...but what do we matter to those suns? To the
universe, as a whole? What do we DO that makes any impact at all, on our tiny little skin-flake
of the universe? God dammit, I feel like I could literally lose my mind if I thought too deeply
into this.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:03 No.1173189
I recently saw a picture of earth from 3.7 billion miles away, but FUCK.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:05 No.1173191
>>1173187
I already did. I'm going to bed now with the thought of life's meaning and my head swelling with
fear of what death brings: absolute nothing.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:07 No.1173194
>>1173159
Reminds me of Mass Effect.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:09 No.1173195
>>1173191
I have unsurpassed confidence that something awaits after death (not looking to start a
conversation about life/death, but I FEEL something is there, intuition perhaps). But something,
not sure what, awaits after death.
Reincarnation? Heaven or hell? Or just, a continued existence as a non-corporeal entity suspended
forever in a state of limbo? Who knows.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:10 No.1173197
>>1173195
So are you Agnostic? (Do you believe in any kind of stronger force outside Humanity?)
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:13 No.1173201
>>1173197
I said I wasn't trying to start a conversation about this, but I'll go so far as to say that I
don't follow a religion personally, but if I did it would be Norse Paganism. Ragnarok and Thor
and Odin, all that fun stuff. Just because I've got Germanic/Norse blood in me, and the religion
appeals to me somehow. But I want to stay on topic.
Overall, what do religions matter? Nuclear wars brought on by fanatic Islamists? Insane teachers
beating kids, people arrested for dog fighting, shootings outside of stores, people dying of
heart attacks - none of it REALLY MATTERS, when it comes to the overall scheme of the universe.
Look at how small, unimportant, unnecessary we are. We're a cosmic burp. We're what happens when
the universe clips its fingernails, and even so thats still not in scale - thats way too big.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:17 No.1173204
Also, you can use the arrow keys to move the scroll bar. Just in case the scroll bar is too
sensitive.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:19 No.1173205
>>1173187
Dear Goodness, OP. I come to flash to schlick and instead I find an incredibly worthwhile,
entertaining and eye opening post with an impressively competent uploader behind it. You, sir or
madame, made my night.
Thank you.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:21 No.1173206
That giant worm is pretty big.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:25 No.1173208
>>1173205
You're most welcome. I only want a few more people to realize, to look at the big picture, and
imagine looking into the night sky and trying to IMAGINE something that incredibly huge. Just
picture it in your mind, something that completely and absolutely dwarfs the biggest thing you
have ever seen in your life.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:35 No.1173212
You're all incompetent if it takes a flash file over the internet to remind you of your
insignificance.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:37 No.1173213
>>1173212
Hey I thought it was pretty cool...
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:39 No.1173215
>>1173212
It makes you consider the true depth to it all, the mass and scale and size. It forces your mind
to dwell on this, rather than on masturbating or whatever else you were going to do, or wanted to
do.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:41 No.1173216
We don't matter.
But those giant earth worms...
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:50 No.1173220
Holy fuck. 4chan made me learn. mind blown
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)03:51 No.1173221
As an astronomer, I greatly enjoyed this flash.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)04:03 No.1173226
and to think all of this occured by chance...
NAWT
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)04:12 No.1173230
>>1173215
True depth? Existence is a globule of energy and matter that managed to manifest in nothing. It's
nothing more because it can't.
All that is and all that isn't is a simple juxtaposition. We can look at a pretty flash file and
perceive the illusion of something greater than ourselves. when in reality there is no self and
everything is all the same globule of scum that blemishes non-existence.
>> [_] Obs 02/03/10(Wed)04:14 No.1173232
You think this is mind blowing? Just try and grasp the concept that the universe is infinite.
Also you are always moving no matter what.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)04:27 No.1173240
Check this out, OP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U&fmt=22
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)04:37 No.1173248
>>1173240
OP here. I had JUST calmed down, man, and I watched this and I freaked out again. Got hard to
breathe, started heaving and shit. Shorter freak-out this time than the last, but I think it was
more powerful.
Thanks for the video. I favorited it. Good God, it took only two or three seconds for me to lose
Sol in the Milky Way.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)04:40 No.1173250
>>1173232
>Just try and grasp the concept that the universe is infinite.
Nothing is infinite. Matter and energy are finite, and where they stop, the universe stops.
The universe is only as large as all the light that's escaped from it has traveled.
What's past that? Nothing.
That nothing goes on forever. It's not the universe, and it's pretty much a meaningless statement
to say that 'nothing is infinite'.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)04:43 No.1173254
>>1173250
Then you don't believe that the universe is expanding?
I think of the universe as a semi-conscious being that is constantly expanding. Not static, not
shrinking like some people think.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)04:48 No.1173256
>>1173254
We all know the universe is expanding thanks to cosmic background radiation. The universe is
still FINITE because if it wasn't finite, it wouldn't exist. And the whole 'universe being one
consciousness' never stands to any scrutiny; it's only something to contemplate while tripping on
acid or 'shrooms.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)04:50 No.1173260
>>1173256
I don't believe the universe is all 'One consciousness', as in we're all connected to some sort
of hive-mind or something, I don't think we're all connected to the universe so much as we do
live in it, but I DO believe that the universe IS semi-conscious, as a being, and is expanding.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)04:56 No.1173262
>>1173122
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>>1173129
>>1173137
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>>1173159
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>>1173248
>>1173250
>>1173254
>>1173256
>>1173260
SAMEFAG
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)05:01 No.1173267
>>1173262
I knew it was coming. I lol'd.
>> [_] Holden !LURKgu7QlQ 02/03/10(Wed)05:03 No.1173270
>Longer then the universe has existed.
This nigger better elaborate. I sincerely hope that he's not implying that the matter that makes
up the universe just 'created' itself, or even worse, some sort of religious theory.
Also OP really ought to stop samefagging, and belief in an afterlife? Give me a break.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)05:09 No.1173272
>>1173270
Wow you're a limpcocked, closed minded moron.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)05:14 No.1173274
>>1173270
It's not that the matter created itself, but that the matter was created at a point.
That point was an event horizon, and it is impossible to say what, if anything, happened before
that point, and it is moot to postulate anyway.
That point's called the Big Bang, in most projections.
>> [_] Holden !LURKgu7QlQ 02/03/10(Wed)05:14 No.1173275
>>1173272
Ugotmad.jpg
>> [_] Holden !LURKgu7QlQ 02/03/10(Wed)05:16 No.1173277
>>1173274
I think you mean that the matter expanded and formed itself into the organization that is the
universe we see today. You see, matter isn't created nor destroyed, unless you're religious, but
they don't have much footing in an argument that follows logic.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)05:16 No.1173278
classrooms should use this flash to help students learn the scales.
WTF, lies where our universe stops? just an infinite darkness?
>> [_] Holden !LURKgu7QlQ 02/03/10(Wed)05:19 No.1173279
>>1173278
That's not at all true. It's highly doubtful that the universe hasn't expanded beyond that point.
There's no reason to believe that there aren't several instances of the big bang that have taken
plays eons from our perception. It's merely the point where light hasn't had enough time to
travel into our vision.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)05:25 No.1173280
mind = intact
tl;dw the universe is really big derp
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)05:39 No.1173287
op once again.
I really enjoy to see how i turned /b/tards to scientists. Never thought it is possible with such
idiots in here.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)05:51 No.1173293
>>1173277
>You see, matter isn't created nor destroyed,
Conservation doesn't apply beyond an event horizon, motherfucker.
At least learn your basics before you criticize.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)05:52 No.1173297
>>1173287
>implying that everybody on /f/ is a /b/tard
>> [_] Raptor Jesus 02/03/10(Wed)06:00 No.1173300
Hey guys /f/ is learning something O_O
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)06:07 No.1173303
>7m earthworm
wut
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)06:09 No.1173305
thanks bro
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)06:19 No.1173308
>>1173297
well, fuck you
>> [_] http://www.buzzle.com/articles/earthworms-habitat.html Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)06:21
No.1173310
>>1173303
Favorable conditions pertaining to earthworm's habitat, diet and age govern the size of these
invertebrates. Giant Gipsland earthworms are known to attain an average length of about 1 meter.
The South African giant specimen (Microchaetus rappi), about 7 meters in length was recorded to
be the longest of all.
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)06:31 No.1173318
What is the universe(s?) suspended in?
mind = blown to fuck
>> [_] Friendsofsandwiches 02/03/10(Wed)06:39 No.1173322
If this is still around, this is probably the better to explain size differences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGLKhP_32xA
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)06:43 No.1173326
>>1173318
mind = still intact
what the fuck man. are people really shitting brix in this day and age over the fact that the
universe is a bunch of matter expanding in a possibly endless void?
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)06:50 No.1173330
>>1173326
The flash blew my mind faggot.
Then what is it expanding into?
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)06:50 No.1173331
>>1173330
god's ass
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)07:12 No.1173335
i liked this thank you op
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)07:59 No.1173347
>>1173330
>expanding in a possibly endless void
>what's it expanding into
-__-
>> [_] Anonymous 02/03/10(Wed)08:22 No.1173358
Hey guys, i just discovered that the universe is big, i'm not a genius?
