September 29, 2008
#482: Height
[[Map of the universe from observable universe to Earth. Each area of item is labled]]
Lables [[Left to Right, Up to Down]]:
[[Man in Hat is throwing a black kitty down]] Black Cat: mrowl!
Top of Observable Universe
46 Billion Light Years Up
Hubble Deep Field Objects
-One Billion Light Years-
Great Attractor
Antanne Galaxies (Colliding)
Andromeda
Holy Crap Lots of Space
- One Million Light Years-
Magellanic Clouds
Edge of Galaxy
Galactic Center
Crab Nebula
Orion Nebula
Horsehead Nebula
Romulan Neutral Zone
The PLEIADS, Duh.
Rigel
Bete (Geuse)
Ford Prefect
- Expanding Shell of Radio Transmissions [[Arrows are pointing up]] -
Edge of Federation Sector 0-0-1
Pollux
Arcturus
Missing Winds
Alpha Centauri
Sirius
Barnard’s Star
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One Parsec -
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One Light Year -
Oort Cloud (?)
Bupkis
Comet Which will destroy Earth in late 2063
Pioneer 10
Eris (All hail Discordia!)
Voyager I
Pluto (Not a planet. Neener neener.)
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
Asteroids
<~life~>
Jupiter
Venus
Mars
Sun
Mercury
Aircraft: Hey a heaping bowl of salt!
“Open the fridge door, Hal.”
Moon
Human Altitude Record (Apollo 13)
2nd Place: Snoop Dogg
Space Elevator - One of these days, promise!
- Geosynchronous Orbit-
GPS Satellites
Aircraft 2: I have no idea how to land
Aircraft 2[[continued]]: In retrospect, they [[underlined]] shouldn’t [[
underline]] have sent a poet
International Space Station
Space Junk
- Official Edge of Space (100 km) -
Meteors
- 1
10 ATM -
High Altitude Balloons
Airliners
- 1
2 ATM -
Cory Doctrow
Shuttle Columbia Lost
Everest
Helicoptors
Man: Woo Python!
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800 m -
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1 km -
[[Height progressivly gets smaller and smaller]]
Burj Dubai (~800 m)
Eiffel Tower (325 m)
Kites
Great Pyramid (140 m)
Redwood (115 m)
Pop Fly
Oak (20 m)
“Hey Squirrels!”
Tallest Stilts
Brachiosaur (13 m)
Giraffe (8 m)
[[A man and a woman]] Folks
Map Title Text : The Observable Universe, from Top to Bottom ~ On a log scale~
Map Disclaimer: Sizes are not to scale, but heights above the Earth’s surface are accurate on a log scale (that is, each step up is double the height.)