Friday 30 January 2009

Some perspective...

Perspective is a funny thing. Trying to see the "big picture" can help you weigh the importance of things, but if you go too far, there comes a point where you start feeling disconnected from the whole thing and start wondering what the point of it all is...

Ok, that's a bit grim, so here are a few clips to put things back in... well... perspective.

So there's spatial perspective. Here you see the Earth (and even the Sun!) becoming an insignificant dot compared to other massive stars...


There's temporal perspective. Here you'll see a baby play on the floor for 4 hours, in 2 minutes...



And of course, Douglas Adams sums it all up with his "total perspective vortex" <TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse_Perspective.ogg>. (You'll need the OGG Codec to play this [1])


Links:
  1. Documentation: Ogg, <http://secondary.hisdomain.hdis.hc.edu.tw/wiki/doku.php?id=documentation:ogg>

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