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This will blow your mind...

zxbrunozxbruno
edited May 2012 in Chit chat
http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white

It will probably remind you of a very old video clip that's been floating around the net for more than a decade, or a .GIF that you've seen here and there, but this is way cooler!

After a few minutes you'll be wanting to watch Carl Sagan or a few sci-fi favorites, or both!
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  • VampyreVampyre
    edited May 2012
    Yeah, I saw this a few weeks ago. It is awesome!
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  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited May 2012
    Thanks for share the link, mate! It's awesome.

    H2O = Mickey Mouse head :lol:
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited May 2012
    Brilliant. I remember hearing about this but never bothered to look at it.

    Seeing it is immense.
    Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
    --Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)

    https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
  • TechnicianSiTechnicianSi
    edited May 2012
    That is excellent.

    The intro The Big Bang Theory SHOULD have had!
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited May 2012
    Mind blown...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited May 2012
    TechnicianSi wrote: »
    That is excellent.

    The intro The Big Bang Theory SHOULD have had!
    Love your sig! :lol:

    Howard's wedding should be a good laugh :D
    Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
    --Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)

    https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited May 2012
    yeah seen this before, very nicely presented...

    what I've just noticed is that 'width of a silk fiber' is smaller than 'smallest thing visible to the naked eye', but surely you can see the individual strands of a spider's web without a microscope?
  • WinstonWinston
    edited May 2012
    It's like the Total Perspective Vortex.

    Actually, back in the 70s or early 80s (I saw it at the National Museum of Film Photography and Television probably in the late 80s) a film was made called "Powers of 10" (IIRC) on this subject.

    [fx: shuffle through google]

    In fact, here it is:



    On a sad note, Merrill C Meigs airfield was destroyed by the Mayor of Chicago a few years ago, you see it in this film, it was the default starting location for years in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
  • guesserguesser
    edited May 2012
    Winston wrote: »
    On a sad note, Merrill C Meigs airfield was destroyed by the Mayor of Chicago a few years ago, you see it in this film, it was the default starting location for years in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

    Wait what? :-o

    booo hiss.
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited May 2012
    great vid. definitely remember seeing the first bit with the picnic, not sure I ever watched the whole thing before now though.
  • WinstonWinston
    edited May 2012
    def chris wrote: »
    yeah seen this before, very nicely presented...

    what I've just noticed is that 'width of a silk fiber' is smaller than 'smallest thing visible to the naked eye', but surely you can see the individual strands of a spider's web without a microscope?

    But a silk fibre is considerably longer than the smallest thing visible to the naked eye. The smallest thing relates to a sphere of that size rather than a strand.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited May 2012
    right, I see... I mean I understand. (I think.)
  • DarenDaren
    edited May 2012
    That's cool. Reminds me, a bit, of the opening scene from Contact.

  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited May 2012
    Wow, it's flash based. Wonder how they did that. I bet it would not be easy to replicate that functionality in HTML5.
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  • guesserguesser
    edited May 2012
    I have this rather fab book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heaven-Earth-Unseen-Naked-Photography/dp/071484439X

    Got it for winning a science prize at school, it's around half astronomical images, and half microscopic images. There's a few things in the middle like incredibly high shutter speed images of liquid droplets bursting and that sort of thing.

    The scanning electron microscope pics are the best I think :)
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • JimmoJimmo
    edited May 2012
    Winston wrote: »
    It's like the Total Perspective Vortex.

    Actually, back in the 70s or early 80s (I saw it at the National Museum of Film Photography and Television probably in the late 80s) a film was made called "Powers of 10" (IIRC) on this subject.

    I remember seeing that (or a bit of it) on a 70s school programme, couldn't remember what it was called, thanks for that Winston! :grin:
  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited May 2012
    Winston wrote: »
    Actually, back in the 70s or early 80s (I saw it at the National Museum of Film Photography and Television probably in the late 80s) a film was made called "Powers of 10" (IIRC) on this subject.
    :) Thanks for having dug this out, Winston! I watched it on Italian State TV when I was 10 or so (actually, the time I made my first experiences with the Spectrum) and I remembered it to this day - but I couldn't for the life of me remember its title.
    Spectrumpedia, the most comprehensive book ever written about the Spectrum - Zankle Soft - Corrections for games incompatible with the +2A/+3 - TAP files for DivIDE/DivMMC - SetoLOAD fast tape loading scheme
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited May 2012
    Just realized that I posted something in the wrong thread.

    But on-topic, I saw that yesterday. Awesome, the music fits nicely too.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited May 2012
    Many many many years ago I wrote something similar to this in Speccy BASIC. You could plot and draw lines on the screen, then zoom in and out, and keep drawing anything at any scale.
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited May 2012
    Incidentally, a similar, but without commentary, short film was made in Canada at the same time of Powers of Ten. They all take inspiration from a book by Dutch educator Kees Boeke.

    The Canadian film is named Cosmic Zoom and its link scene is a boy riding a boat on the Ottawa river, just between Parliament Hill and Gatineau (as it was in the late '60s, i.e. without the Place du Portage complex and the Canadian Museum of Civilization).

    Spectrumpedia, the most comprehensive book ever written about the Spectrum - Zankle Soft - Corrections for games incompatible with the +2A/+3 - TAP files for DivIDE/DivMMC - SetoLOAD fast tape loading scheme
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited May 2012
    That site was awesome! Mind melting stuff when you really think about it :lol:
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