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Sunday, February 28, 2010

A perspective on scale - from point to universe

I like this a short film "The Known Universe" from the American Museum of Natural History, “shows the known universe as mapped through astronomical observations....”. We begin from a point on earth, in this case the Himalayan Mountain range, and then rapidly "expand outwards". This portion of the movie where it shows the “fields of mapped space” intrigued me, particularly the astronomical swath of obscured vision that is "uncharted space". This puts you "in your place" a bit, but is still a rewarding perspective.

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