Staggering.....and very kewl.

Kind of puts things in perspective........

Never did I imagine the day when I would see a YTMND linked on Wondercafe. Good job. :")

So they're probably infinite existance larger then us, but what about the other direction?

Could there be infinite existance smaller than us!? OH LANTA! THE POSSIBLILTIES!!!

"Infinite"?  Not sure; but the OP clip wasn't even close to infinite.  Here's 'the other direction' (well, both - 'closer' to infinity)...

And here's another take on the first direction...

It was a really interesting show at first. And then they even included some planets from Star Trek! Then they just started making stuff up.

Oooooooo... How fascinating, Jae!!!  Do tell.  Like which, please?  The only ones I noticed were from this - as in our - solar system!

And what did they then make up after including some planets from Star Trek, Jae? 

I think Jae is referring to some of the names of the stars which the creators of Star Trek also used.

I'm not surprised that Star Trek would use names of some actual stars, but apparently some people are.

Yep.

Not I. I know a lot about Star Trek and its creation. Indeed, I was, at one time, the president of the largest Star Trek fan club in Toronto.

As for the "made up" stars that I mentioned, I was mostly joking around. Some of them are new to me, I had not heard of them before, but I have no idea whether they exist or not. I presume they do.

My apologies. I didn't realize you were joking.

I havn't yet evolved a sense of humour

Very nice Brett.  Perspective is everything.

LB

I'M SIGNIFICANT! screamed the dust speck.

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Wow thanks for posting that BrettA ^_^ I always like seeing this that show just how small we are (have you seen ummm I think it was called Journey to the Edge of the Universe or something like that, it's really awesome)

You were created with one. Perhaps you have yet to discover it...?

oops, messed up my post XD I'll be edditing it for a min :P

Thanks, LB.  Here's a somewhat related piece from the Beeb last Friday:  "Single molecule's stunning image" and it suggests that this may be the tip of the iceberg with the (new) technique used.  (Though as a non-scientist, I find the image of the microscope pretty impressive, too.)

*still smirking that Efficient Cause is surprised that someone would quote Anything on WC

BTW - have you seen Men In Black (Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones) - the 'galaxy' causing the panic in the story is small like a marble, hung on a cat's collar, and the scene at the very end with the other marbles... well - very fascinating!!

Amazing stuff Bretta. I think I'll have to dust off my telescope.

I attended two conferences in the LA area earlier in the month and this video was taken at one of them, but I had commitments that precluded my seeing this Lawrence Krauss talk - and most others that day. However, to me it ties nicely into this thread and since I've now just seen it... please enjoy :-)  (1:04:52; including Q&A): www.youtube.com/watch

It's funny: a few days I wrote this as an Advent Reflection:

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PEACE

It’s a very small world:

Every couple of years or less

the average Canadian motorist

drives the furthest distance

of its widest circumference

and then some...

The deepest place in all the oceans

is just 11 kilometres down:

a distance most folk

can reasonably walk

in a couple of thoughtful hours....

And almost all of life on earth —

including us, the 3,000 or so tigers

that still exist in the “wild”,

and the remnants of more than 3,000

other “critically endangered” species —

all inhabit an eggshell like

coating on the plant that reaches

just 20 short kilometres

from ocean trough to stratosphere.

And we humans… dear me,

despite a billion of us near starvation,

despite a billion without water fit to drink

despite more than 500

of our 6,000 known languages

with all their wisdom, poetry, songs and hopes,

poised on the edge of extinction,

we still somehow find the will

to cooly gaze into each other’s faces,

prize what we call “progress”

ahead of all of this

and still think thoughts of war?

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Merry Christmas!

BrettA, I think this is your baileywick.

Thank you for adding s'more Wonder to this Cafe.

Just a Self-writing poem,

Inannawhimsey

o.k.

I have no idea what the joke is but i have a very good excuse, I was ridiculed by someone who used to call me her friend for my ignorance and told I was stupid. So stupid, in fact that she expressed that I should,  "cease your attempt to grow upwards intellectually and just grow outwards" - now, doesn't that make complete,logical, rational, and scientific sense to you? 

Another look at how small we are in relation to the universe:

The Known Universe by ANMH (you're welcome, Inanna...):

Here's yet another - ostensibly similar - Scale of the Universe link, but with a dramatically different approach than anything I've posted above.  This one's not a video at all, but an interactive graphic running the full gamit from Planck Length and Quantum Foam / Strings (slider left) to the astounding 930 Yottameter size of the Universe (slider right)!  And yes, that's well beyond the ~140 Ym size of the visible Unvierse... I didn't know anyone had even estimated that and right now, I have no clue how they might have even attempted it!  Fascinating!

http://www.scaleoftheuniverse.com/

For me not as visually intriguing as the videos, but far more interesting in every other way from my perspective!  (Though I wouldn't have minded the 'window' to be a bit bigger...)  And thx. Judy!  Enjoy :-).  I did.

EDIT (later the same day):  Plus, amazingly at long last...

Planet with British weather found 20 light years away

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/17/blighty_exoplanet/

And one more from string size to the estimated size of the universe...  this time interactive :-).  http://htwins.net/scale2/

map of the Jewish mind/the atheist soul/the co(s)mic giggle

irrealestate ho! (buy your lot/pixels now!)

Dang! Great link IW, but I'm crestfallen that there really weren't really any models of Jewish minds and atheist souls.
I'll get over it.
:)

hooooooooooooooooom :3

Yet another Earth to Universe (+ 1 More) diagram - it's 800 px wide and you may need to expand it as it initially displays:  

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/05/the-religious-unive...

That is a great image and says quite a lot, really.