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"Rick" wrote in message...
... Thank you! This... http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/5000lys.html ...is exactly the kind of data I was looking for. And thanks for the poem also! Rick in Los Angeles Pleasure ! -- happy days and... starry starry nights! The Flow! The Flow! The Flow ain't goin' slow, The Flow is goin' faster than I really want to go. The Flow! the Flow! I must go with The Flow, The Flow is where I want to be-- NOT on the sandy sho'. Paine Ellsworth |
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"Odysseus" wrote...
in message ... Benoit Morrissette wrote: AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Got the wrong link! I remember a web site that gives growing picture of our environment: first Earth and Moon, then the solar system, then the OOrt cloud then... till the end of the universe. I though it was this one. Looking in my bookmarks, i cannot find it.... Please, if you know what i an talking about, tell me where i should look! Not the anzwers.org site to which Paine posted a link upthread: http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/5000lys.html ? Their maps are all on too large a scale to show the solar system in any detail -- although there's a series that relates the size of our system to interstellar distances, at http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/stardist.html -- but it fits your description from the 12.5-LY scale on up. -- Odysseus And here's the interesting "Powers of 10" Java that takes us from macro to micro in just a few seconds... http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/j...f10/index.html happy days and... starry starry nights! -- The Flow! The Flow! The Flow ain't goin' slow, The Flow is goin' faster than I really want to go. The Flow! the Flow! I must go with The Flow, The Flow is where I want to be-- NOT on the sandy sho'. NObody wants to feel... ALL WASHED UP Paine Ellsworth |
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"Odysseus" wrote...
in message ... Benoit Morrissette wrote: AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Got the wrong link! I remember a web site that gives growing picture of our environment: first Earth and Moon, then the solar system, then the OOrt cloud then... till the end of the universe. I though it was this one. Looking in my bookmarks, i cannot find it.... Please, if you know what i an talking about, tell me where i should look! Not the anzwers.org site to which Paine posted a link upthread: http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/5000lys.html ? Their maps are all on too large a scale to show the solar system in any detail -- although there's a series that relates the size of our system to interstellar distances, at http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/stardist.html -- but it fits your description from the 12.5-LY scale on up. -- Odysseus And here's the interesting "Powers of 10" Java that takes us from macro to micro in just a few seconds... http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/j...f10/index.html happy days and... starry starry nights! -- The Flow! The Flow! The Flow ain't goin' slow, The Flow is goin' faster than I really want to go. The Flow! the Flow! I must go with The Flow, The Flow is where I want to be-- NOT on the sandy sho'. NObody wants to feel... ALL WASHED UP Paine Ellsworth |
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:29:56 GMT, Odysseus wrote:
Benoit Morrissette wrote: AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Got the wrong link! I remember a web site that gives growing picture of our environment: first Earth and Moon, then the solar system, then the OOrt cloud then... till the end of the universe. I though it was this one. Looking in my bookmarks, i cannot find it.... Please, if you know what i an talking about, tell me where i should look! Not the anzwers.org site to which Paine posted a link upthread: http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/5000lys.html ? Their maps are all on too large a scale to show the solar system in any detail -- although there's a series that relates the size of our system to interstellar distances, at http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/stardist.html -- but it fits your description from the 12.5-LY scale on up. Yessss! Thanks! Benoît Morrissette |
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:29:56 GMT, Odysseus wrote:
Benoit Morrissette wrote: AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Got the wrong link! I remember a web site that gives growing picture of our environment: first Earth and Moon, then the solar system, then the OOrt cloud then... till the end of the universe. I though it was this one. Looking in my bookmarks, i cannot find it.... Please, if you know what i an talking about, tell me where i should look! Not the anzwers.org site to which Paine posted a link upthread: http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/5000lys.html ? Their maps are all on too large a scale to show the solar system in any detail -- although there's a series that relates the size of our system to interstellar distances, at http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/stardist.html -- but it fits your description from the 12.5-LY scale on up. Yessss! Thanks! Benoît Morrissette |
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