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    The reason the internet was invented

    Once you've saved the following page you may aswell uninstall IE, Firefox, Opera or Safari.The scales of tiny things

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    The reason the internet was invented

    Ha ha! Brilliant!

    So the carbon atom is the smallest thing, is it? But beyond that ...?

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      The reason the internet was invented

      Did anyone else - after the first viewing - then go back and zoom in as fast as they could?

      :-)

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        The reason the internet was invented

        No, but I'm going to do it now!

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          The reason the internet was invented

          That makes me feel thick as a Planck.

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            The reason the internet was invented

            If someone could just graft on that awesome youtube video showing the relative sizes of the planets, we could charge admission.

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              Very similar to the Charles & Ray Eames film "Powers of Ten." Watch it here:
              http://www.powersof10.com/index.php?mod=register_film

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                  The reason the internet was invented

                  Incandenza wrote:
                  Very similar to the Charles & Ray Eames film "Powers of Ten." Watch it here:
                  http://www.powersof10.com/index.php?mod=register_film
                  That's a blast from my past. That was shown continuously in a little room at the National Museum of Photography Film & Television in Bradford which I went to several times a year in my childhood.

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                    The reason the internet was invented

                    Funny you should mention Eames and a museum--the California Museum of Science and Industry in 1961 asked IBM to contribute an exhibit to the new museum, and IBM commissioned the Eameses to do something. They designed the Mathematica exhibit, which is incredible. I loved it as a kid, now knowing who the Eameses were--I liked the lights, the giant Moebius strip, and the cool-looking exhibits. My parents would take me to the museum often, and that was always my favorite part. Sadly, the exhibit was removed in 1998 (it was apparently the longest-running corporate sponsored museum exhibit in the US). It's since toured to some museums, and two copies are on display in Boston and Atlanta. I really want to see it again, and I want my daughter to be able to see it someday.

                    Quicktime of the Mathematica exhibit:
                    http://eamesoffice.com/qtvr.html

                    Some photos:
                    http://www.concentric.net/~Whmsicl/CMSI.html

                    http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/mathematica.html

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                      The reason the internet was invented

                      I'm not sure how well-acquainted the users of this forum are with Cracked, but this thread title reminded me of this list.

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                        The reason the internet was invented

                        It's a funny thing--Cracked was always the lame, unfunny, poor man's version of Mad magazine. But their website is consistently really good. I don't even know if Mad is around anymore.

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                          The reason the internet was invented

                          Incandenza wrote:
                          Funny you should mention Eames and a museum--the California Museum of Science and Industry in 1961 asked IBM to contribute an exhibit to the new museum, and IBM commissioned the Eameses to do something. They designed the Mathematica exhibit, which is incredible. I loved it as a kid, now knowing who the Eameses were--I liked the lights, the giant Moebius strip, and the cool-looking exhibits. My parents would take me to the museum often, and that was always my favorite part. Sadly, the exhibit was removed in 1998 (it was apparently the longest-running corporate sponsored museum exhibit in the US). It's since toured to some museums, and two copies are on display in Boston and Atlanta. I really want to see it again, and I want my daughter to be able to see it someday.

                          Quicktime of the Mathematica exhibit:
                          http://eamesoffice.com/qtvr.html

                          Some photos:
                          http://www.concentric.net/~Whmsicl/CMSI.html

                          http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/mathematica.html
                          That looks really great. It says on wiki that after SciTrek (in Atlanta, where the exhibit finished) closed in 2004, all the exhibits were sold off.

                          Perhaps someone has this in their garden:



                          I hope so.

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