Comments on: Matters of size https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/ Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:17:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Katkinkate https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511068 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:17:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511068 Thanks Lance. Maybe it was just easier.

]]> By: Alex https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511067 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:16:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511067

Mind-boggling? ‘Zat all? Try heart-breakingly. Much bigger than mere mind-boggling. More daunting. Leaves you with an even greater heartache.

I think the term you’re all looking for is “astronomical”. Or as Feynman would say, “economical”.

]]> By: Radioactive afikomen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511066 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:45:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511066 Holy crap, they’re using the theme song to The Black Hole!

]]> By: Lance https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511065 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:24:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511065 Just to continue in this pedantic excursion, all the objects are shown spinning with the same angular velocity which is also whack.

I think the folks that made this great video new that and just thought it looked cooler to have them all spinning at the same rate and in the same direction.

]]> By: Lance https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511064 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:19:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511064 “Do I have it wrong, or was the Earth spinning the wrong way in the video?”

Yep you are correct. Assuming that all the planets are shown with their poles in the usual configuration only Venus is spinning the correct direction since it is the only planet shown that has retrograde rotation about its axis.

]]> By: Katkinkate https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511063 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:55:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511063 Pretty impressive! Do I have it wrong, or was the Earth spinning the wrong way in the video?

]]> By: Zaphod Beeblebrox https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511062 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:38:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511062 What are all you wankers talking about? The universe ain’t all that much. I am a significant part of the universe.

]]> By: Crudely Wrott https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511061 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:49:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511061 @#1, who said:

. . . mind-bogglingly big it is . . .

Mind-boggling? ‘Zat all? Try heart-breakingly. Much bigger than mere mind-boggling. More daunting. Leaves you with an even greater heartache.

]]> By: rich lawler https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511060 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:18:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511060 A cool video affirming yet again why I don’t dare try to study or think about astronomy. I can barely get my head around population genetics.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511059 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:10:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/03/matters-of-size/#comment-511059 Damn..way to burst my bubble. For 50+ years I just KNEW I was the center of the Universe! Great video..now if I can only get people to sit and watch it….and learn…

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