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<a href="http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html">View</a> the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.post:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:56:11 -0800semmiNationalHighMagneticLaboratoryTallahasseeFloridascienceastronomybiologycellsDNAsubatomicBy: soyjoy
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737264
Cool. Thanks, semmi.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737264Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:02:03 -0800soyjoyBy: chrid
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737266
"I can see my house!"comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737266Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:06:35 -0800chridBy: rhapsodie
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737268
Interesting that we still know much more about the macrocosm than the microcosm. Thanks for the link, semmi!comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737268Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:06:59 -0800rhapsodieBy: ChrisTN
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737271
Wow...trippy. ::inhales, looks for Cheetos::comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737271Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:11:15 -0800ChrisTNBy: rmannion
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737276
<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/14288">Almost verbatim</a>...comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737276Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:19:32 -0800rmannionBy: KirkJobSluder
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737281
Nice. Requires java though. It's another vision of the classic 1977 instructional video <a href="http://powersoften.com/index.php">Powers of Ten</a>.
On preview, damn, forgot this was a dup.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737281Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:26:08 -0800KirkJobSluderBy: rhapsodie
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737282
At least the verbiage was taken from the site itself, rather than the duplicated post.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737282Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:26:54 -0800rhapsodieBy: glenwood
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737283
i knew i'd seen this durn thing before...comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737283Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:27:10 -0800glenwoodBy: kamylyon
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737296
I don't care if it is a dup, it's neat. Thanks semmi.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737296Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:52:15 -0800kamylyonBy: gazingus
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737298
Sheesh. They stop when they get to quarks. Pussies.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737298Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:55:40 -0800gazingusBy: picea
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737315
First I felt all small and insignificant, and then at the end, huge and godlike. Fear me, o puny quarks!comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737315Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:20:23 -0800piceaBy: y2karl
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737326
dhartung mentioned it was linked in a comment when Tarrama first posted this and she apologized, modestly and sincerely. For re-posting a link from a comment! All the same, it was a first post. So, props to rmannion for the polite doublepost call here. I was ready to hop in, myself. I remembered Tarrama's link, too, and I suspect I can find it here via MeFi Googling *pause* and the answer is <em><a href="http://www.google.com/custom?q=National+High+Magnetic+Field+Laboratory+&sa=Google+Search&cof=GIMP%3A%23ffffcc%3BT%3Awhite%3BALC%3A%23FFFFCC%3BGFNT%3A%23cccccc%3BLC%3A%23CCCC00%3BBGC%3A%23006699%3BAH%3Aleft%3BVLC%3A%23CCCC99%3BGL%3A2%3BGALT%3A%23999999%3BAWFID%3A6bb0ad67a4a8d3e0%3B&domains=metafilter.com&sitesearch=metafilter.com">Yes!</a>
</em> Ahem. Running text or titles of articles or institutions through MeFi Google, the lower box on the Search page, can quite easily catch a previous post even if the link itself no longer registers one. Make a note of it.
It still is pretty darn cool.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737326Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:42:20 -0800y2karlBy: scarabic
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737336
Hey there's Venus.
Oh look, the Moon.
Ah, the blue globe we call home.
WHOA!!! FLORIDA!
*[thh-TANG!-ng-ng-ng*
That one zoom is like getting dick-whipped with America's Wang.
Nice link, you sweat from a babboon's balls!comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737336Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:53:48 -0800scarabicBy: squirrel
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737383
<i>"I can see my house!"</i>
And right near by is your polling place. Look! No black people!
Great piece of zoominess, repeat or not. Thanks!comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737383Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:47:18 -0800squirrelBy: meehawl
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737390
Sometimes you just can't beat the old scalewise analogy comparison. One I like to use for atoms is (hoping I have the scales correct, I may be 10-100 off someplace):
You know how small a millimetre is? Now imagine a tenth of that. It's like a tiny grain of sand. Imagine that is the nucleus of the atom. Then the nearest electron orbital begins pretty much around a million kilometres outwards from the nucleus. The electrons are tiny, infinitesimal pointlike particles with only 1/2000th of the mass of the smallest nucleus (a proton). And their paths are smeared out across across 20 million kilometres of space. And it's the repulsion between those very diffuse electron clouds that gives matter its volume and shape.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737390Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:20:22 -0800meehawlBy: ChrisTN
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737455
MetaFilter: like getting dick-whipped with America's Wang.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737455Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:29:29 -0800ChrisTNBy: lazaruslong
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737543
very cool, even if it is a dp. thanks!comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737543Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:49:16 -0800lazaruslongBy: y0mbo
http://www.metafilter.com/35719/science#737904
phhhtt.
That tree isn't even there anymore. Ivan got it.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.35719-737904Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:49:47 -0800y0mbo
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