Coolest Shit Ever: The Known Universe In Six Minutes
19 Dec, 2009 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnord, wisdomKnock knock. Who’s There? Infinity. Infinity who? Infinity is pretty amazingly large. My dear Youdopia, one of the blogs I read daily, is The Daily Grail. This little video which is a zippity doo dah tour from Tibet to the edge of the cosmic horizon and back, was posted there. I just nicked it and reposted it here. Ta da. I’m an ahtist.
This video was made by the American Museum of Natural History, and it’s pretty cool. Is it the Coolest Shit Ever? Well, no, it’s not mind blowing. It is pretty cool, though. Considering that we’re finding watery planets all over the place now, and even watery moons in our own solar system… we might want to bone up on the neighborhood.



What may cook your brain is… What we view in space has changed significantly since lightspeed and distance in the billions distort the actual likeness of the know universe. What we see as earthbound creatures is nothing but an archive.
Nice phrasing! Nothing but an archive. I like that.