This is an "Oh fuck, the universe" post.

[tortoisegirl]

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From the NASA site- "What would it look like to travel across the known universe? To help humanity visualize this, the American Museum of Natural History has produced a modern movie featuring many visual highlights of such a trip. The video starts in Earth's Himalayan Mountains and then dramatically zooms out, showing the orbits of Earth's

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[king]

old, but always always always worth posting

can't even leave our galaxy traveling at the speed of light before you die of old age. :(

[distress_bacon]

Pardon my being off-topic, but I love your icon :)

[c_yo_yus]

Mooooooon. I loved Gerty.

[aj_hyena]

Wait, what? It's that big?

I mean, I know warp drive's a dream, but...

[honeyandvinegar]

I think I'll watch this for the next two or three days straight.

[minotaurus]

Space is so beautiful and amazing. I love posts like these.

[lady_astrocat]

My thoughts exactly!

[rgreystrix]

Wow. A nice little backfist of perspective.

[skreidle]

Check this one out: The Scale of the Universe--on a sliding scale, from yocto to yotta, from Planck length to the estimated size of the universe, spanning 60+ orders of magnitude! (This one is a manual slider rather than a video, too.)

[tortoisegirl]

Oh that one's very cool, thanks!