scale

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It’s the scale of significant Star Wars characters, objects, and…

I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer:

Anyone need a…

Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late:
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By James O’Donoghue,…

As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…

There are endangered species where the remaining few in the world could fit…

The Mendocino Complex Fire, now the largest in California ever, continues to burn.…

The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…

Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…

We might be in an age of big data, but people have been…

From Little Planet Factory, a Solar System in a bottle made to scale:…

A lot of people around the world including myself don’t quite understand the…

In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…

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In most depictions of the Solar System, planets are…

Somehow these space-in-perspective graphics and interactives never get old. I guess the size…

How choice of scale changes a view completely, even with the same data.

The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…

Mt. Everest is a tall mountain. How tall is it?? Glad you asked.…

I still don’t understand the relative size of planets. The universe is too…

In the department of comparing large numbers to objects and situations that are…

Look! More size of very big things with large numbers, compared against things…