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Old June 21st, 2001, 04:08 AM

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Default The Universe to Scale

Here is a website from the FSU physics dept that starts at the universe level and goes down to a sub-atomic level in powers of ten. It really helps give you sense of the vastness of space. Thought this might just serve as general inspiration.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/j...f10/index.html
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Cool website. Too bad the oak tree they used for the 1 centimeter to 10 meter views looked diseased...
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Ah, an Online Version of the Total Perspective Vortex...

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Default Re: The Universe to Scale

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Cool website. Too bad the oak tree they used for the 1 centimeter to 10 meter views looked diseased...


Diseased!? Hell, it doesn't even look like any Oak leaves / tree I've ever seen. Other than that, yeah - pretty cool little Java applet...
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