Website review: Powers of Ten (kottke.org)
thinman discovered this in Science/Tech
•54 reviews since Jun 9, 2006
science, powers-of-ten, video
•kottke.org/06/06/powers-of-ten
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thinman discovered 26 months ago- powers of ten of how much space is between....
- Ajihad rated 7 months ago
- Powers of ten---Classic video on the scale of the universe...from the quarks to the outer reaches of the galaxy
- perrin124 rated 21 months ago
- Most of everything really is nothing!
- SalT rated 23 months ago
- 1977. I've seen this before. Interesting still. I'll need to check why Charles and Ray Eames made this film and how they hooked up with MIT's Philip Morrison, whose "thing" Powers of Ten was. The Kottke site links you straight into powersof10.com. Great stuff.
- MrDelish rated 23 months ago
- They don't make 'em like they used to...
- valza rated 23 months ago
- Absolutely mind-blowing!! We are so small are we not?
- barrettpage rated 24 months ago
- i wish i could go back to school. sitting in science class, i loved watching these types of videos. i don't see why the other kids were bored by them. douches.
- Habadakus rated 24 months ago
- To steal a quote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life: "Sort of makes you feel rather small and insignificant."
- javierguillot rated 24 months ago
- An eight minute journey that takes you from a field of view of 1 meter a side (1e0m) to one of 100 million years a side (1e40m), and then back all the way to 0.000001 angstroms (1e-16m). This is a classical video which in my opinion should be viewed at every school while learning the powers of ten. Also includes a link to the very well designed and valuable page of the creators (powersoften.com, a must-see for those who like the video) and to a funny "powers of ten Simpsons couch gag" video. Found stumbling at rationale.
- rationale rated 24 months ago
- "The film starts on a picnic blanket in Chicago and zooms out 10x every 10 seconds until the entire universe (more or less) is visible. And then they zoom all the way back down into the nucleus of an atom. A timeless classic."
