[Closed] oh my God — it's full of stars!

don't zoom out too far or a feeling of utter insignificance may follow

By the way, it works in firefox too - don't feel left out!

That's excellent, and it's amazing what you can do in a browser these days.

Coo. Very nice, thanks.

It's like playing Elite all over again 🙂

beautiful.

You can see why God waited till the 4th day to create that little lot. 😯

How long is it meant to take to load? Taking ages for me and there's also a javascript error in the page.

OK so it loads fine in firefox (irony!), that's pretty epic!

oh my - the insignificant bit feels true. It's amazing what a visualisation can do to the way you think about things

Runs off for headphones and a glass of whisky. Puts lights out

daytime bump

Anyone got this to load on a tablet...?

You see that speck of nothing there? We are a speck of nothing to the speck of nothing....
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🙁
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But then countless bits of nothing go to make up me..
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😀
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All I see is a spinning white blob on my iPad.

I'll wait till tonight for the full "effect"

From IFLS on Facebook,

it visualizes the precise location of at least 100,000 stars in our Milky Way galaxy, using various imagery and data pulled from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). For your frame of reference, there are approximately 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

I'm going to pretend I didn't read that, if I start thinking about it it'll make my head hurt.

Is it a sign that it's definitely time for a new computer if it takes 4 seconds per frame in firefox and 3 spf in chrome?

Hmmmmmmm

Is the thread title a movie quote?

It's from "2001 - A Space Odyssey"

"Open the pod bay doors Hal" 🙂

v good

Like that a lot, thanks. I´m gonna stick it on the telly later tonight and have a proper look.

I love stuff like this, I have a series of images showing roughly the same thing.

I'd love to witness the very last person on Earth finally realising that the Universe does not revolve (pun unintended) around mankind, that mankind is merely an evolutionary blip, will one day become extinct, and both the Earth and the Universe will carry on as if nothing had ever happened.

Fantastic.......I'm reminded of:

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
That's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

and you still hear people saying that there is no life outside of out own, spec of a planet.

My brain does go to mush when I try to scale some of this stuff.