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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 02/04/2003 : 20:17:44
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Here is a very cool site...
Parry-Hill, Burdett and Davidson of the National High Magnetic Field
Laboratory at Florida State University, Tallahassee have posted a wonderful Java
Applet. The Applet begins with a view from 10 million light years from the Milky Way and then moves in by steps of 1/10th to an oak tree outside the buildings
of the Laboratory and then continues down to sub-atomic objects to the point beyond which we are ignorant.
For those who are amazed by the natural world, go to:
http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
431 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2003 : 20:22:31 [Permalink]
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ahhhh..."Powers of Ten"
A classic! It was available in book form, and as a short film, back in the 70s. I'm glad to see that it's still around!
Thanks Kil |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2003 : 05:39:05 [Permalink]
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Here's another site...
http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm
Got the book too. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2003 : 07:22:06 [Permalink]
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Is my memory playing tricks on me, or did the film version of this that used to run in a loop at the Air and Space Museum zoom in on a woman who was sunbathing near an airport?
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- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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