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(Science) Coolest link I've seen in ages (Vanity)
Posted on 10/13/2003 8:25:07 PM PDT by Qwinn
This is absolutely excellent. An excellent perspective of both how small and large we really are.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
Qwinn
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: allyourquarks; arebelongtous; galaxy; wearestardust
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To: JethroHathAWay; MEG33; SAMWolf
Thanks for the pings. :-)
To: baseballfanjm
To: Qwinn
Check my post #42. Thank goodness for Google.
To: Qwinn
Oh my gosh- That is so cool.
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posted on
10/14/2003 6:47:05 PM PDT
by
Diva Betsy Ross
((were it not for the brave, there would be no land of the free -))
To: AntiJen; Sabertooth
Neat! Thanks Jen. Check this out, Saber.
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posted on
10/14/2003 6:48:15 PM PDT
by
Victoria Delsoul
(The CA recall's biggest losers are the three musketeers: the RATS, the LAT, and the National Inquire)
To: Qwinn
...I thought I saw my house for a second....
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posted on
10/14/2003 6:48:17 PM PDT
by
dogbrain
To: Qwinn
And this has to do with breaking news how...? Just kidding:) Ping for a great break from regular programming.
To: baseballfanjm
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posted on
10/14/2003 7:04:04 PM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
To: SAMWolf
Thanks for the ping SAM.
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posted on
10/14/2003 7:04:57 PM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
To: Qwinn
BTTT!
To: baseballfanjm
Thank you very much :) Yes, that is fun, heheh.
Qwinn
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posted on
10/14/2003 7:42:12 PM PDT
by
Qwinn
To: Victoria Delsoul
Very cool. Thanks for the flag.
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posted on
10/14/2003 8:54:10 PM PDT
by
Sabertooth
(No Drivers' Licences for Illegal Aliens. Petition SB60. http://www.saveourlicense.com/n_home.htm)
To: Qwinn; american colleen; sinkspur; livius; Lady In Blue; Salvation; Polycarp; narses; ...
Bumping for an unbelievable experience!!
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posted on
10/15/2003 6:06:16 AM PDT
by
NYer
(Pax et Bonum)
To: Qwinn
Good find! It reminds me of my freshman year in college when the physics (or maybe it was astronomy) class I was in viewed a movie about orders of magnitude/powers of ten.
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posted on
10/15/2003 6:58:00 AM PDT
by
ELS
To: No More Gore Anymore
Amazing!
To: Qwinn
Bump to watch again later
To: Qwinn
Very cool, nice find, and thanks for sharing!
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posted on
10/15/2003 8:41:10 AM PDT
by
StriperSniper
(All this, of course, is simply pious fudge. - H. L. Mencken)
To: baseballfanjm
Thanks for posting this! It's very cool. Best link since that domino reaction/car commercial thingie. Anyone remember that?
No, can you post it?
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posted on
10/15/2003 9:47:45 AM PDT
by
Coleus
(Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.)
To: Qwinn
There must be an error somewhere. The sun has an absolute magnitude of 4.6 or so. That means at a distance of 32 lightyears (or 10 parsecs), the sun would appear as a magnitude 4.6 star. That is roughly ten times fainter than the North Star appears to us. The limit on a clear night in the country is about magnitude 6, or roughly 4 times fainter.
The magnitude scale is logarithmic, so that every change of 2.5 magnitudes is a power of ten. Don't ask -- that's just the way things are done in astronomy.
Anyway, the point is that you could see the Sun from ten light years away as long as you were in a dark area.
MD
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posted on
10/15/2003 4:31:21 PM PDT
by
MikeD
(Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!)
To: Centurion2000
Nice but they screwed up the scales at the macro level. The Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light years across. The pictures have the about 5 time too large a scale. I was thinking the Milky Way Galaxy looked awfully big at 1 million light years away.
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posted on
10/16/2003 12:06:49 AM PDT
by
#3Fan
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