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Monday, May 22, 2006

What's you're coolest visual for how small we are in the universe?

I might screw this up a bit but here's mine:

Put a dining table in the middle of a football field and spread a black table cloth over it. Spill (a few?) shakers of salt on the black-cloth dining table and spread the grains around. Then, line up enough similarly salt-covered, black-cloth dining tables, end to end, so that they cover the entire football field. The grains of salt are roughly the number of stars are in our galaxy alone.

Put a football field in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean...

Put an Atlantic Oceans-worth of football fields, full of black dinning tables covered in grains of salt...then check your blood pressure.

1 Comments:

Blogger The Red Queen said...

Thats pretty cool.
My favorite doesn't have to do with how small though. If you took the eraser of a pencil and managed to turn all of the matter in it into energy it would be enough to blow up a city.

10:34 PM  

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