[meteorite-list]OT: Interesting page

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi, Moni, List,

    This concept was originally out forward as a book and subsequently a short
film (or the other way around), called POWERS OF TEN by Charles and Ray Eames.
    I remember seeing it in the late 1970's or perhaps early 1980's and it
wasn't new then, so the concept goes 'way back. The book sold very well, a large
"coffeetable" book.
    The film is available as part of DVD collection of Eames films, published in
2000. A child's "flipbook" is out of print. An expansion of the idea is
available in a book by Philip Morrison with the same title. Check Amazon.
    I can't remember it well enough to tell if these images are the same or a
re-doing, but it's the idea and the experience that sticks in your head.
    It still does.

Sterling K. Webb
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moni waiblinger-seabridge wrote:

> Florida  State University in Tallahassee, Florida has
>   put up a very interesting page on its site. It
>   begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy viewed from
>   a distance of 10 million light years and then Zooms
>   in towards Earth in powers of ten. 10 million, to
>   one million, to 100,000 light years and then it
>   finally reaches a large Oak tree.  Once you click on the site, the
> software does all
>   the work. Sit back and imagine how complex our
>   universe is! You can play it forward and backward to
>   be amazed over and over. At the end it says
>   AUTO....click on that and review the process in
>   reverse!
>
> http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.