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Posted by EVOC (Member # 9381) on :
Neat video. Can you imagine what the tides would be like? Posted by philocinemas (Member # 8108) on :
Everytime you click on this site there is a different video.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
What philocinemas said. I just clicked on it and saw that the video is about the year of the rabbit, not about the moon and planets.
Posted by Wordcaster (Member # 9183) on :
Oops. Ok - I retitle this thread to" automatic writing prompt generator"
Sorry
Posted by philocinemas (Member # 8108) on :
I got a very informative video on how to make glass eyeballs for eye-loss victims. I watched for a minute or two, trying to figure out how the planets fitted in - that would have been one big eye socket. Posted by philocinemas (Member # 8108) on :
...and one big glass blower!!! Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
I've changed the title, based on your "suggestion," Wordcaster, but I'm still a little nervous about keeping the link (or even this topic) around, because there's no telling what video will be there when someone follows the link.
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Posted by EVOC (Member # 9381) on :
http://vimeo.com/19231255 this is the specific link to the video originally posted.
Posted by Wordcaster (Member # 9183) on :
Kathleen,
If there is a fear of inappropriate or perhaps just irrelevant video links, feel free to do with this topic as you wish
My incompetence is exposed! (Or as my boss says, "my incontinence" -- no one has the heart to tell him he's thinking of the wrong word).
Thanks evoc for the correction.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Nah. I just edited your original post to show the correct link.
I'll go change the title again.
Posted by MartinV (Member # 5512) on :
I saw a similar video with different stars. It started with the Sun and then continued to ever larger stars found. The biggest star was all over the screen with the Sun as a tiny dot in the corner.
Posted by coralm (Member # 9274) on :
That was neat, thanks for the link.
Posted by Lissa (Member # 9206) on :
Very cool!
Lis
Posted by Natej11 (Member # 8547) on :
That's pretty neat, although I wish they'd shown a few more of the planets.
I've got a story where the world is circling a gas giant, so it's a big part of the sky a lot of the time. Interesting to get perspectives on those sort of astronomical oddities.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
There's a section of Carl Sagan's Cosmos that starts with something on Earth and zooms out until the whole of the known universe is visible.
Before that, in Clarke's The Lost Worlds of 2001, there's a description of a movie, "Man is the Measure of All Things," which starts out with Da Vinci's classic drawing of a man, and leaps out an order of magnitude several times, until it reaches the ends of the universe. I don't think it was ever filmed---the book consisted of what was cut from the novel of "2001,"---but it seemed to me at the time that the scene in Cosmos was inspired by it...
Posted by Reziac (Member # 9345) on :
quote:My incompetence is exposed! (Or as my boss says, "my incontinence" -- no one has the heart to tell him he's thinking of the wrong word).
Maybe not... does your brain leak?
Posted by EVOC (Member # 9381) on :
I love Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Has anyone heard the Autotune song with Carl Sagan called "The Sky Calls to us"?
Posted by Wordcaster (Member # 9183) on :
Just had a thought while I was watching an episode of Stargate.
If planets are all different sizes (not even close to earth) and same thing with stars, wouldn't aliens be completely different sizes too?
Perhaps it wouldn't make for great science fiction if Earth got attacked by aliens who left footprints as big as the Great Lakes. I am reminded of universes like Star Wars and Stargate where nearly every species they come across is somewhat related in size to humans instead of a futuristic Gulliver's Travels or Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
And then, gravity would be completely different on each planet in a given universe. I'm waiting for the episode of Stargate where they walk through and are knocked to the ground, unable to stand up under their own weight.
Sorry for my random drivel. Maybe I should save it for the next Star Trek convention (do they still have those?).
Posted by Smiley (Member # 9379) on :
Well, the whole concept of Stargate is that the universe was seeded by aliens, the Goa'uld, and those people the SG-1 team meet are all Human ancestors. That's why the planets and people are relatively similar. Works for the TV show/movie too.
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