We're so small

prajnadhyana · 2 months

Then why do I always hear women say "gasp - It's so big!"?

sequentious · 2 months

Intro to the movie Contact, in reverse, btw.

Here it is with sound, which actually adds quite a bit to the effect.

LyricBomber · 2 months

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,

Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...

The Earth began to cool,

The autotrophs began to drool,

Neanderthals developed tools,

We built a wall (we built the pyramids),

Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,

That all started with the big bang!

Pyroninja30 · 2 months

Am I the only one who thinks this stuff doesn't belong in r/atheism? There is a science subreddit...

UnrelatedToAtheism · 2 months

Unrelated to atheism. Especially because you got it from /r/space.

AdHom · 2 months

This is pretty cool. I think it could have done a better job of showing the real scale of things if it were longer, but I imagine it already took a ton of skill and effort to create even this. Awesome animation, and thanks to the artist!

Teiresias666 · 2 months

Interestingly, although the camera appears to move at constant speed, it moves slower and slower, decelerating at an absurdly rapid pace.

Thehollander · 2 months

Nah, we're the same size we were yesterday (except for the cheezbugerz we ate)

cyphern · 2 months

Relevant

SRTohigh · 2 months

I believe that we are actually quite BIG! billions of years ago stars exploded the dust from those stars created our solar system and US so although we are physically small in the universe we are made of material that was larger than we can imagine

ChemicalSerenity · 2 months

Hmm... that's the opening sequence from Contact reversed, isn't it?

Looks familiar.

Edit: Ah, already noticed.

ltroberts99 · 2 months

That is the size of the Earth? Gabe Newell is bigger.

keeblur · 2 months

Or looking at it from the angle of what composes us, we are actually pretty big.

MuchDance1996 · 2 months

Maybe your small, im a giant.

HankMcCoy7410 · 2 months

This reminds me of one of my favorite opening sequences to a television series.

In the first few seasons of The Next Generation, the view was of leaving Earth and passing the other planets and going into space. It always made me realize how tiny we were.

Nymaz · 2 months

Are we small or are we just far away?

superferd · 2 months

http://robbertdijkgraaf.com/html/video_lezing_DWDD_university_oerknal.html

In dutch but contains a better possible gif. Showing how tiny earth really is.

Its at the 8 and 13 minute mark.

DoesWhatSimonSays · 2 months

They put the solar system in the wrong part of the Galaxy


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