Visualizing the impossible
The above was arrived at via SciencePunk. What you are looking at is a visualization of the oceans and the atmosphere gathered into drops and displayed against the earth; oceans on the left, atmosphere on the right.
I find this almost but not quite as amazing as the galactic objects comparisons reported on here.
A little closer to home is the large/small dog comparison, and this disparity has scientists arguing over whether they really should be considered the same species. What seems to keep the family together is that all breeds are compatible. (In the case below I think we might try to avoid testing the hypothesis.)
And finally, the largest and smallest fish.
I’d like to see that earth visualization with a drop of oil, a drop of people, and a drop of cars. Do you think we’d be frightened or reassured by what we saw?
Comment by kirtvocals — March 14, 2008 @ 10:46 am
That would he cool. Not reassured I suspect. Because even if the drop of people was impossible to make out….the little drop is like a little drop of nitoglycerin.
Comment by aos — March 14, 2008 @ 12:04 pm