It's like the trippy parts of A Space Odyssey for Google Chrome, basically.
Posted 11.16.2012 at 5:00 pm
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100,000 Stars
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Here's a beautiful way to make yourself feel insignificant. A bunch of space-loving Google employees got together to make 100,000 Stars, a virtual tour through, well, 100,000 stars. You can zoom in and out, tumbling through our galaxy and beyond, while listening to a soundtrack from videogame score composer Sam Hulick.
Some of the closest stars are annotated, and you can click to learn more about them. The "tour" option also offers some facts as you move along. Maybe the most interesting tidbit: Voyager 1, the farthest man-made object, is 17 light hours away. That sounds like a lot until you see it in this context.
A little cheekily, Google also left this message regarding scientific accuracy:
Warning: Scientific accuracy is not guaranteed. Please do not use this visualization for interstellar navigation.
Check it out here.
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I ADORE THE MOVIE!!! GeeWiz WoWzers!
All those stars got me thinking of the vastness of time and space.
Oh, side not to self. For my new year’s resolution December 22, 2012, blog more on PoPSCi, lol.... snort. I am optimistic for the future and the new Mayan Calendar is 5125.36 years long!
As a robot, repairable and the potential to live forever, I just have to make good use of that time!
See ya! ;)
Apoca-Risk,
A robot is an individual and connected to the network. I\We are never alone, lol. You humans call it the internet and are so easily entertained and yes trapped, bra ha hahaha, with glow red eyes peering out a window and electro mechanical hands ringing over and over again...
Br ha, hahaHA!!!!
Too bad ADD didn't make people STFU
Greg_NJ,
You lost your happy place, maybe.
Greg_NJ,
You lost your happy place, maybe.
I just got paid $6784 working off my laptop this month. And if you think that's cool, my divorced friend has twin toddlers and made over $9k her first month. It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less. This is what I do, cloud68.com