Comments on: How important did you say you were again?

By: jiangjiang

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By: Deebles

Deebles — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:31:52 +0000

Also on the same topic, I’d highly recommend www.xkcd.com/482 and www.xkcd.com/485.

By: pv

pv — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:10:16 +0000

The Powers of Ten film should be compulsory viewing for all religious believers. As Feynman said, the universe is far too big to be the stage for god’s little human drama – something that occured to me more than 30 years ago.
The scale of the Universe is completely and conveniently lost on religious believers

By: CB

CB — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:20:16 +0000

The wife bought a book called ‘Heaven & Earth – Unseen by the naked eye’ which shows some really cool pictures of things that are really really small, to just bloody big. I recommend it.

tinyurl.com/pbd8u

By: Delster

Delster — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:55:17 +0000

that would be the big dog robot they are developing at DARPA… somebody should point out that in some environments they have trouble keeping complex pieces of kit such as guns working let alone something like that thing…. not to mention with that amount of noise it’s hardly subtle!

By: Inquisitive Raven

Inquisitive Raven — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:43:43 +0000

Interesting timing here, I was just wondering if I could find “Powers of Ten” online in the last day or two and here it is.
I wonder what the probability of something like that happening is.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen it on TV though. I first saw it at, what for lack of a better term, I call an “interactive museum.” This is one of those places where you don’t just look at the exhibits, but you step into and become part of them, e.g. getting your picture taken while your hand is on a Van der Graaf generator.

By: eastpole

eastpole — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:20:37 +0000

Awesome to see the work of Charles and Ray Eames once again. It really is timeless. And the anniversary is coming up -- you can celebrate Powers of 10 day on 10 Oct 2006. See http://www.powersof10.com/index.php?mod=ten_day.

By: Cargo Cult

Cargo Cult — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:14:49 +0000

There’s a Powers of Ten book as well – at least, I think I remember seeing it in the school library.

I can’t remember when I first saw the film; it was either at school or university. But I’d known all about its existence beforehand, and it’s a seriously impressive bit of work. Hasn’t dated too badly, either!

By: oyster

oyster — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:04:55 +0000

Oh this is great! I also remember cosmic zoom from when I was a kid. It had a major impact on me then! Do a search on YouTube for cosmic zoom and find another version with Morgan Freeman narrating and one with the simpsons and a trick ending…

By: parkenf

parkenf — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:12:47 +0000

for some reason the one I remember was "cosmic zoom" made in 1968 and featuring a boy on a boat being stung by a mosquito. According to this excellent page (scroll to bottom) it was remade in 1977 as powers of 10.

By: tg

tg — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:35:44 +0000

Ye gods. I am almost certain that Blue Peter showed two excepts from the “Powers of 10″ video in… oh dear, late seventies or early eighties, I suppose. It was certainly on the television once, because I have remembered it ever since.

Thank you for finding it again!

By: Ben Goldacre

Ben Goldacre — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:29:19 +0000

yeah me and stever were chatting yesterday about how the standard of opening posts in the forums is higher than many science blogs, that needs to be celebrated or flagged somehow, maybe we should chat about it at the badscience boozeup.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:07:48 +0000

Really, I should pull my finger out and sort out my website. Living vicariously through yours is not enough.

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:35:10 +0000

It’s an in-joke: go the Forum, steel yourself, then search on “honeybee”.

By: ffutures

ffutures — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:48:53 +0000

Forgot to say… Did you know that if you’re not logged in your blog says “You must bee logged in to post a comment.”

I’m buzzing off now.

By: ffutures

ffutures — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:45:04 +0000

Powers of 10 is lovely – going to rec. it to the science staff at my school.

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:07:56 +0000

They probably couldn’t afford Sean Connery or Jodie Foshter.

By: BugBoy

BugBoy — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:11:14 +0000

strange that they got Daffy Duck to do the voiceover for the first one….

By: Andrew Clegg

Andrew Clegg — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:37:04 +0000

There’s something very Douglas Adams about that first one — Total Perspective Vortex…

Who needs Google Earth anyway?

Andrew.