What would it look like to travel across the known universe?
cwnl: Credit & Copyright: American Museum of Natural History
To help humanity visualize this, the American Museum of Natural History has produced a modern movie featuring many visual highlights of such a trip.
The video starts in Earth’s Himalayan Mountains and then dramatically zooms out, showing the orbits of Earth’s satellites, the Sun, the Solar System, the extent of humanities first radio signals, the Milky Way Galaxy, galaxies nearby, distant galaxies, and quasars.
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the thing you have to ask when you see a film put our place in the universe in context like this, is what is the point...
The Known Universe is the best thing I’ve ever seen. Turn off your lights, smoke a joint if you have one, put it in HD,...
Makes you think of just how little our petty squabbling really matters in the grand scheme of things… Live and let live,...
This is literally so cool, I almost started crying.
What would it look like to travel across the known universe?...Credit & Copyright:...
This is beautiful.
We are insignificant! Everyone should take a few minutes to watch this video.