If you pack the entire contents of human civilization– from the earliest civilzations in Mesopotamia to the resignation of Karl Rove a few days ago into one inch, the Big Bang would be 6.37 miles from here.
I just thought you might like to know that.
4 responses so far ↓
Bryce // August 15, 2007 at 8:52 am
Cool diagram—where’zit from?
- bryce
lance // August 15, 2007 at 9:07 am
I suppose I should have credited it. I got it from Wikipedia.
John // August 15, 2007 at 9:26 am
Cool! If you caught last night’s “NOVA,” you saw engaging astrophysicist Neil Degrasse-Tyson describe the “Origins” of our planet. Instead of distance measurements, he used time (literally, a clock) to put into perspective the blink of an eye in time that we have been here.
lance // August 15, 2007 at 12:34 pm
If all of human civilization is an inch. I wonder how long we have been using computers, phones, automobiles, TVs, etc. Weird. Consider where we were technologically in 1900, and how far we’ve come in a mere 100 years.
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