Putting Size in Perspective

[aristide1]

Very impressive:

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/ ... lls/scale/

After displaying the picture move the slider to the right.

Something to consider - current cpu technology is 45nm. The scale will show you just how small that is.

Enjoy

[spookmineer]

Something to consider - current cpu technology is 45nm.

Yay it's the Hepatitus era!

Somewhere on the other end of the spectrum (and then again, not by a long shot):
Largest star known to man

If you consider how empty our solar system really is, and that the outer planets are much further away from eachother than the inner planets, it's shocking to know this star reaches all the way to Saturn (6th planet).

Saturn is 9 AU away from the sun (1 Astronomical Unit is the distance from earth to the sun, 150 million kilometres or 93 million miles).

Light would travel more than 8 hours around this giant star, light travelling around our sun takes 14.5 seconds.

I have no idea why I wrote this.

[mr. poopyhead]

Something to consider - current cpu technology is 45nm.

Yay it's the Hepatitus era!

Somewhere on the other end of the spectrum (and then again, not by a long shot):
Largest star known to man

If you consider how empty our solar system really is, and that the outer planets are much further away from eachother than the inner planets, it's shocking to know this star reaches all the way to Saturn (6th planet).

Saturn is 9 AU away from the sun (1 Astronomical Unit is the distance from earth to the sun, 150 million kilometres or 93 million miles).

Light would travel more than 8 hours around this giant star, light travelling around our sun takes 14.5 seconds.

I have no idea why I wrote this.

your post makes me feel awful small... makes me think of the galaxy song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk