Explore the Vastness of Space

aniceto

i thought this vid was pretty rad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OkC1L6LNx0

there's also this
http://molecularexpressions.com/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

KeyserSoze

It's not just rad, it's TOTALLY BADICAL!!! While watching this, the Flaming Lips' song, "It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big, I Am So Small... Do I Stand A Chance?" comes to mind.

Eric Chadwick

I haven't seen that since grade school. Still impressive! I'd love to see this updated to include string theory, but whatever. Great teaching tool it remains. Thanks David!

Luxury

There was a newly created one that is almost identical to the video above. I think Morgan Freeman narrates it, and it uses all sorts of CG.

Ferg

for anyone who's into this kind of stuff, all the episodes of Carl Sagan's Cosmos series are up on google video. They're all very good, and include "updates" from discoveries made since the show first aired. Enjoy...

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=carl+sagan

McIlroy

If they did an updated version for the space pull out they should nab the begining of CONTACT . That movie has the best space/galaxies fly through ever in my opinion . When I was younger me and my friends were astronomy nerds and we used to get some real brain busters going . Thanks for the link man that really shows how just incredible this universe really is with it's vast smallness and largness. From the perspective of an atom our bodies would be like a universe.

aniceto

damn, that series rocks Ferg! thanks