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February 28, 2018, 08:46 AM
JALLEN
Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten

Powers of Ten (1977) takes you on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports you to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds you view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others.
Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, the film moves inward—into the hand of the sleeping picnicker—with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. The journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell.

In 1998, Powers of Ten (1977) was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. The short film was written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames.



Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
February 28, 2018, 08:55 AM
Crom
Nice!


"Crom is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, 'What is the riddle of steel?' If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me."
February 28, 2018, 09:44 AM
Shaql
They should update it with what they know now.




Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed.
Bart: Alright, we'll settle this like men, with our fists.
Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed.
February 28, 2018, 09:56 AM
arfmel
Catchy tune, too.
February 28, 2018, 10:20 AM
airsoft guy
http://scaleofuniverse.com/



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February 28, 2018, 10:44 AM
FiveFiveSixFan
That puts things into perspective.
February 28, 2018, 12:00 PM
craigcpa
Well, I now know where my missing socks are. Eek


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February 28, 2018, 12:40 PM
P220 Smudge
quote:
Originally posted by Shaql:
They should update it with what they know now.


I was thinking the same thing, a modern version would be pretty amazing.


quote:
Originally posted by arfmel:
Catchy tune, too.


I had to put my thumb over my phone speaker. That whirling high tone at the end set my ears to ringing.


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