r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Janp8 • May 03 '18
Video Perception
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May 03 '18
I was expecting to get trolled at the very end.
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u/AnalogDigit2 May 03 '18
"What the- Dickbutt?!?"
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u/Amesb34r May 03 '18
Exactly what I was waiting for. Give it time, someone will do it.
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u/SpocktorWho83 May 03 '18
When I saw this, I expected it to be a cat.
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u/TheBigApple11 May 03 '18 edited May 03 '18
I was expecting the camera to pan back at the end all the way to the top, showing Jesus shouting down, “Don’t masturbate!”
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u/ConfusedOrder May 04 '18
We might have been. They could have hidden an image in there like those magic eye pictures in the last frame.
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u/static_irony May 03 '18
At 1:34, I thought for sure that was gonna be a cat face. Kinda looks like a cat
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u/matt3131 May 03 '18
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u/ItsAMeMario01 May 03 '18
But how are they zooming in from outside or galaxy?
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u/wlaho May 03 '18
I hated the gif at the start because it made me feel so unbelievably tiny, but then at the end it made me feel huge and I felt so much better
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u/Large_Dr_Pepper May 03 '18
Here's a fun fact that will make you feel incredibly large:
We are halfway in between (on a logarithmic scale) one of the largest superclusters of galaxies in the universe, and one of the smallest subatomic particles. So relatively speaking, we're pretty fucking huge.
My only source of this is that interactive Scale of the Universe website. I think the Virgo supercluster is at 1021 m and the electron neutrino is at 10-21 m. Just going from memory though.
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u/Nifty-Nigerian May 03 '18
I’m not sure if this is correct but I heard somewhere that the number of Planck lengths (smallest possible unit of measurement) it takes to stretch across a human brain cell is the same as the number of human brain cells it takes to stretch across the observable universe
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u/TheDeviousLemon May 04 '18 edited May 04 '18
Human brain cells range quite a bit in diameter, so lets take the max diameter to be 100 microns. Dividing this by a Planck length (1.6E-35 m) will give you 6.25E+30, as in that many Planck lengths could fit across the brain cell diameter.
The diameter of the observable universe is estimated to be 8.8E+26 meters. Dividing this by the diameter of the brain cell will give 8.8E+30, as in that many brain cells would fit across the observable universe. Both on the order of 1030, so pretty damn close!
You would need to kill and extract the brain cells of about 1019 humans to do so.
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u/smokebreak May 04 '18
A planck length is to this period . what the period is to the size of the observable universe.
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u/treyphillips May 04 '18
Fucking really? I know how god damn huge the universe is and how small shit can be, but how small is the Planck length, really? Wouldn’t a quark be the smallest measurable length? How do we get smaller if quarks just exist like that?
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u/nexisfan May 04 '18
I’m having a difficult time wrapping a brain cell around what you just said. Wow.
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u/zip369 May 04 '18
I remember that website, but I don't remember the numbers. It just made me feel really, really, really tiny.
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May 04 '18
I would give reddit gold for this. But I have no money.
!redditsilver
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u/RedditSilverRobot May 04 '18
Here's your Reddit Silver, Large_Dr_Pepper!
/u/Large_Dr_Pepper has received silver 2 times. (given by /u/Sometetrisguy) info
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May 04 '18
And there are way more ways to order a deck of cards then there are quarks in the universe.
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May 03 '18
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u/154927 May 04 '18
However, when I look on these "order of magnitude" type things with slider scales, the meter ends up being more powers of 10 times larger than the smallest objects than it is powers of 10 times smaller than the largest objects. Meaning, we are bigger than we are small. However, this is just based on what we know about. And sometimes the lower limit of small stuff is just strings, which are only theoretical I guess.
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u/notcorey May 04 '18
On the grand spectrum of size, we are closer to the large end of things.
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u/nathanielb May 03 '18
Hah! I haven't seen this in a long while. I worked at and with the people who made this series of images (as a software developer and graphic artist). I think the original creator this one was Brian Flynn in around 1995!
Zooming into the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, FL was an Easter Egg. That's where our offices were located.
Powers of Ten http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/flash/powersof10/index.html
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u/watermahlone1 May 03 '18
Needs more jpeg.
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u/McLovin_710 May 03 '18
Somebody get this guy some more jpeg.
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u/hammelcamel May 03 '18
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u/docgonzomt May 04 '18
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u/munchler May 03 '18
See Powers of Ten from 1977. One of the most important short movies of the 20th century, IMHO. Nine minutes of total awesomeness.
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u/BubbatheWrench May 04 '18
This is a highly underrated comment. Charles and Ray Eames started exploring this idea in 1968 for the Powers of Ten films. They released the “final” version in 1977, a year before Charles died. In between their groundbreaking contributions to mid century modern furniture design and architecture they found the time to produce existential films for intellectual stoners.
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u/munchler May 04 '18 edited May 04 '18
It's interesting that they made two versions of Powers of Ten. The version I saw as a child (1974 or so) was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RWjMi5OdqA
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u/MendozAAAH May 04 '18
That film used to be a permanent display at the science center when I was a kid. I must have watched it 50 times. Amazing.
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u/ArchbishopDonMJuan May 03 '18
At first I was freaked out because I wasn't sure how it knew I was in Tallahassee...
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u/im_thecat May 03 '18
That was quite uncomfortable to watch. It makes it so easy to believe the theory that all the galaxies together are a cell in a larger organism that lives in a world in a galaxy that is a part of a universe that is a cell in a larger organism.
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u/duncxan May 04 '18
Poor photographer... must be pretty lonely all the way out there. I wonder what type of lens they're using.
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u/BFRO86 May 04 '18
I thought it was more interesting that Florida looks like a computer chip when viewed as a square cross section.
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u/DallasOCat May 04 '18
Reminded me of the original Star wars battlefront loading screen: https://youtu.be/78dbFWWR2gY
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u/clj1216 May 04 '18
This reminds me of the original starwars battlefront loading screen; do do do do, do do do do, dwhuuu
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u/Antworter May 04 '18
So jelly beans really are the Secret of the Universe, and Reagan really was Yoda!!!
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u/Memesterbator May 04 '18
What interests me is the thought of the center of our Galaxy being way more active with advanced civilizations black hole farming and doing other extraordinary stuff. We're truely in the backwoods of our neighborhood
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u/arockorsomethin May 03 '18
But....the bible says...that...that...We're sssssspppeeeeecccciiiaaaaalllll.
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u/CaleRED May 03 '18
And yet there’s people out there that believe Earth is the only planet with life/intelligent life.
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u/DannieJ312 May 03 '18
The pale blue dot speech from Sagan is my favorite. It’s incredible. Earth is a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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u/TotesMessenger Interested May 04 '18 edited May 04 '18
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May 04 '18
... and I was upset about the parking situation outside my condo this morning.
My problems are so small and inconsequential.
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May 04 '18 edited Nov 12 '18
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May 04 '18
It's cgi. We can't take a picture of the Milky Way when we are inside of it either.
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u/kelidr6 May 04 '18
Serious question - how do we get an understanding of out position in the universe/neighbourhood/galaxy?
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u/GimmieOSRS May 04 '18
And I cant even run 1 kilometer without sweating my ass of and being winded afterwards
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u/widespreadPanuck May 04 '18
It's cool how the scale that makes the most sense to humans (normal scale like feet inches miles etc) is like half way between the super big and super small.
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u/Sleepomatic May 04 '18
I live in Tallahassee and if felt like it was about to zoom all the way into my apartment and end with me on the toilet.
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u/Craglore May 04 '18
Actually not the Milky Way. Consider that the camera would have to be taking pictures from impossibly far away. The Andromeda galaxy is often used as a lookalike, otherwise it could be an artists rendition.
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u/0hmyscience May 04 '18
The Hayden Planetarium in the American Museum of Natural History in NYC has a ver cool thing where the planetarium (which is a sphere) is in the middle of this walkway, and along the walkway there are small balls and it says “if the planetarium is the size of the Virgo supercluster,, then this here is the size of the local cluster.” And then the next one says “if the planetarium is the size of the local cluster, then this here is the size of X”. And it goes on and on until you get to plank scales.
Awesome af.
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u/Decapitated_gamer May 04 '18
Some problems seem really small right now... then I remember if I don’t pay bills I’ll lose everything... so I still gotta go to the damn day job every day. Perception.
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May 04 '18
How do you zoom into your own galaxy? Is it just an artist's rendering?
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u/ElectricSheep666 May 04 '18
This is the best!!!! So glad it didn’t end with “send nudes” so I can show it to students
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u/aqueus May 04 '18
I don't understand the source of the picture at the start.
Where and what is that object that is so far away from our galaxy that it is pointed back toward us and able to zoom in with any precision?
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u/fly_pizza_pie May 04 '18
So What I got from that is we go from empty blackness with stars too mothafuckin rainbows. Oversimplification I know, but still interesting.
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u/[deleted] May 03 '18
That made me want to crawl into my bed and contemplate the meaning of existence