Powers of 10

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The movie is in the embedded Youtube clip below. But check out the website too (http://powersof10.com/). Very cool.

About Powers of Ten

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker - with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell.

Powers of Ten is a 1968 American documentary short film written and directed by Ray Eames and her husband, Charles Eames, rereleased in 1977. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten (see also logarithmic scale and order of magnitude). The film is an adaptation of the 1957 book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke, and more recently is the basis of a new book version. Both adaptations, film and book, follow the form of the Boeke original, adding color and photography to the black and white drawings employed by Boeke in his seminal work.

In 1998, "Powers of Ten" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

[nane1104 146]

Very impressive!

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very cool! I'm going to share this. thanks.

[Nagishkaw 510]

:thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:

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They should make a movie called "The Power of The Speed of Light: Traveling From 1 edge of the (known) universe to the other"

Every second in the movie would represent 1 second traveled at the speed of light.

Therefore each second you travel 186,382 miles further out.

Each minute you travel 11,176,943.8 miles out

Each hour = 670,616,629 miles

Unfortunately the movie would have to be 156 billion years long!

1 light year is the distance light can travel in vacuum in one year’s time. This distance is equivalent to roughly 9,461,000,000,000 km or 5,878,000,000,000 miles. This is such a large distance. Because of its great scale, the light year is one of the units of distance used for astronomical objects. For example, Andromeda Galaxy, which is the nearest spiral galaxy from the Milky Way, is approximately 2.5 million light years away. Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system from our own Solar System is only 4.37 light years away.http://www.universetoday.com/39725/1-light-year/

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Just now figuring out how insignificant you really are?

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Just now figuring out how insignificant you really are?

Aww Marc'ie poo, always so sweet :star: :luv:

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A simple YES shall suffice.

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A simple YES shall suffice.

Such a dear. Of course. :star: