Quite simply, it’s the best six and a half minutes you may ever spend on the internet.
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It is a nice video. There was a similar movie like this before( few decades back!)called “Power of 10″ by a physicist James Morrison( I think)
it’s the best six minutes and a half minutes you may ever spend on the internet.
other than all of the trifecta’s that have preceded and will follow.
If I was the THCpundit, it would be even more totally awesome!
Very nice display. Reminds me of the opening sequence in Contact (which used radio broadcasts very convincingly to give a sense of the traveling back in time as you recede across the universe): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLQF-4uyD4Y
The original was “The Powers of 10″ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8842256077873416888&ei=_uFCS9vOM46-rAKkycGmBQ&q=powers+of+10&hl=en&client=firefox-a# by the American geniuses Charles and Ray Eames: http://eamesoffice.com/
During the cold war, they were given unprecedented license to create a multimedia presentation at the US pavillion in an exhibition in Moscow, at which “Russians lined up for blocks to get in and reportedly left in tears after seeing the sheer scope of what capitalism provided.”: http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9905/eames.html