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[@NiranjanRavikumar7]

If you feel down, zoom in and there's you composed of millions of millions of cells through the miracle of nature called the human birth. If you've become too into yourself, zoom out and remember the quote - "We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam". It's all about perspective.

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[@Troubleshooter125]

I first watched a proposed B&W version of this film on a 16 mm Steenbeck film editor, back in 1976. It fascinated me back then as an electrical engineer, and over 40 years later, it is still compelling.

[@sammiller6613]

Growing up in the 80’s, I remember this film as one of my favorite exhibits in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. I’d insist on watching it three times in a row. Absolutely blew my mind. And now I’ve watched it for probably the first time in 35 years.

[@macc3677]

How about breaking through the sound barrier? Ever see that one at air and space?

[@arthurseery]

Thank You. I was just going to type that. I was wandering the Smithsonian and this video was playing in a tiny empty theater. Tiny place, two rows of chair and a little Movie Screen. I made sure to get my friends and brought them back to that tiny room to watch. (This was in the 1980's and we were in DC for a Smoke-in)

[@LFTRnow]

Time also works on a power of 10 as well. 10^0 sec: smallest useful "human" units of time 10^1 sec: watching a frame go by in this film 10^2 sec: a bit under 2 mins, enough for a good portion of this 10^3 sec: about 16 min, you nearly watched this twice in a row 10^4 sec: ~3 hours, half of the time spent looking at exhibits. 10^5 sec: roughly next day 10^6 sec: 1.5 weeks later 10^7 sec: more than a season has passed (~4 mo) 10^8 sec: 3 years, the time since your comment and this one. 10^9 sec: just under 32 years later. If you were watching the movie when you were 10, you'd be 42 now. 10^10 sec: a third of a millenia, if you were looking back, it would be before the founding of the Americas by the colonists, if looking forward, we should finally be starting to see real progress back from the CO2 pollution 10^11 sec: about 3k years, looking back humans were really getting into this farming thing, forward - who knows but its probably about 30 generations after yours. 10^12 sec: about 30k years ago, we had our first human settlements. In theory in the future we would have moved far out into space in the future 10^13 sec: 1/3 million years, first humans on earth (according to fossil remains) 10^14 sec: 3 million years ago humans were splitting off from apes (approx) and a global ice age 10^15 sec: 30 million years ago Eocene and a mass extinction event 10^16 sec: 1/3 billion years - Paleozoic, welcome to Pangea! In the future, the continents are actually expected to recombine again, so this one is similar (to Earth) backwards and forwards 10^17 sec: 3 billion years - Earth had little to no O2 yet and was probably mostly a water world. Looking forward, the sun will be running out of fuel, and running hotter 10^18 sec: 30B years - Looking forward, the Sun engulfed the Earth some time ago as it became a red giant and is now a white dwarf, about the size of ex-Earth. Looking back, the universe has yet to exist, there are several billions of years to wait. 10^23 sec: (at least) - The universe is expected to enter a "degenerate" era where stars slowly and eventually cease to exist 10^48 sec (at least) - The universe is expected to enter the black hole era where the remaining black holes slowly radiate away due to Hawking radiation emissions. Proton half-life is expected to be at least 10^42 sec so that might be going on as well. 10^100 sec (at least) - The last black hole evaporates and the universe continues to spread out but all the energy just becomes more uniform and cold. Or maybe Futurama is right and we just go around again.

[@benzost920]

As a kid likewise growing up in the 80's, I likewise recall watching this movie... the same number of times... and in the same museum.

[@brianarbenz1329]

I saw it there too. I recognized it here right when I saw the people lying on the picnic blanket.

[@juliodamianherreravera5930]

They aired this in the Spanish tv when I was a kid, back in 1979. I was so fascinated, ... and puzzled!

[@crunchyfrog63]

I saw this in high school not long after it came out. Now I just showed it to my 11 year old son.

[@jennifer86010]

The music for this great Charles and Ray Eames video was composed and played by the legendary film score composer Elmer Bernstein. He must have had fun doing this little project, and I suspect he improvised it all using a Moog synthesizer.

[@philippkortig1046]

This is wonderful- remember it from my first Astronomy course back in the day :-)

[@thewedgev2]

I remember watching this at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto when I was a kid.

[@MrGb1965]

Same here. I believe it had a female narrator.

[@brianarbenz1329]

I've visited both the Ontario Science Centre and the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. I saw this film, and I honestly can't remember which one was where I saw it.

[@daxafer]

I’ve shown this to my class a few times over the last 10 years or so - usually when grade 7 and 8s are learning about scientific notation. My current 7s are starting our chemistry unit (particles, solutions,) and the question of light years came up a few days ago - so it’s a good fit for a fun discussion starter before a long weekend.

[@alexandrakellermann2933]

Ich habe das Buch zu Hause. Absolut faszinierend.🌌

[@XKT035]

41 years later Americans still don’t get metric

[@ortizdr81]

Don’t get it? Or is not taught it?

[@WithYouInTheDark]

@@ortizdr81 idk about other places but my school starts teaching the metric system in 5th grade and we almost only use it, in school stuff.

[@ortizdr81]

Damn Los Angeles public schools! 😆

[@scientchahming5]

I bet most Americans think the metric system is unpatriotic! They're too immured in old ways!

[@kdwaynec]

LOL same tired old comment every time someone mentions an inch or a mile. I am fairly fluent in both. Does the conversion math confuse you?

[@RoyalOui]

Truly one of the great educational videos of all time, in my humble opinion!

[@ianrichardson1824]

dad? when are you getting back from the store with the milk

[@simonmasters3295]

Soon, son. Remember, it is milk you are asking for, so I had to wait for some Calcium, and of course Magnesium in chlorophyll.

[@thyliasmoss9672]

A video of Love to me. Thus is where I was with my Thing, alone with him the first time my life! zThis is where he Kissed for the first time ever! This is the City forever memorable to me as this is where I fell in love with him.

[@benedict6897]

My lecturer just sent me this and I am terrified and amazed lol

[@TheDavidnewkirk]

This presentation chokes me up every time I watch it -- because at every point, at every magnification or minification, _ every_ power of 10, I am re-reminded that I am, and can only ever be, Home. Closer now to the end of my life than its beginning, I think from time to time that if I could set graduation requirements for K through 8, there'd be just three: * Know how to balance a checkbook (or its electronic equivalent), and why * Know how to recognize and avoid poison ivy * Recite and cogently explain the elements of this one-sentence definition of Science: "Science is the determination of nonfantastic properties, relationships, causes and efects." Some say of Science that it removes/spoils/clouds the mystery and glory of the Universe. _Exactly the opposite is true:_ The more we know, the more mysterious and glorious the Universe appears to be, and the more we should be grateful for having been brought to Life within it. Welcome home.

[@elenalalakulich2227]

It's huge and powerful video!

[@pypstwo]

Thanks KZbin recommendations. And thank you for uploading.

[@wordsofcheresie936]

There was another version of this with nearly identical graphics, but narrated by a woman with a British accent. I'm pretty sure that there was an added supernova, but it wasn't a very exciting addition. My cousin described the woman's voice as "cold but sexy".

[@scientchahming5]

It's sad that the metric momentum in America halted!

[@jennjenn2957]

This just got me thinking 🥲 creepy, yet cool!

[@ameliawarfield5637]

Awesome video of the universe by the powers of ten. I have a flip book based on the video. If someone could turn it into a loop video.

[@shortstop75]

it showes us 1,000 million which is also a billion

[@ShaikNaser-r3b]

11/October/2023.....

[@hunterthorsen7968]

hello fellow drosdoff students

[@ianrose4528]

is it saying that a race car travels 1000 m in 10 seconds? because that would require the car travels 224 mph for the whole 10 sends in order to do that

[@Troubleshooter125]

Perhaps not in a straight line, but IndyCars at the Brickyard regularly travel that fast or faster. Also, before the chicanes were implemented, speeds very near 224 mph were recorded on the Mulsanne Straight at LeMans.

[@kdwaynec]

224mph for a race car is kinda slow! Top fuelers are knocking on 340

[@user-iu6hg8hq2p]

이거 최면거는거 아니냐

[@BFBChiller]

Whos fro Carykh?

[@nothingmog]

Good vid but this isn't yours! You should put the credits you knaw

[@StayTunedtv-xl2xe]

John mayer

[@lahuertitadeguille582]

Hola muy buenas estoy con una huertita casera en casa le invitó a pasar por mi canal y si quiere suscribirte se agradece mucho desde la isla de Lanzarote en la huertita de GUILLE un cordial saludo gracias🙏💕🌱

[@איתי-ל6ד]

היי כיתה ז12

[@jordanplays317]

??? At 7:52

[@jakedavies7599]

math

[@matmat-oy7cy]

I am living in Hong Kong and I remember I saw this short movie when I first visited the Space Museum in 1980. I was amazed by the visual effects and became curious about the Science of outer space. Now after almost 20 years I am a Science teacher and maybe this movie inspired me!

[@macc3677]

Air and space. I used to watch this video like 5 times a year there.

[@b4ne56]

I bet the classroom was mesmerised and scared in the same time

[@urmom330]

As someone who watched it today. I can confirm this.

[@robertcornhole5197]

What's INSANE about this is what we've learned about the cosmos since. The narrator mentions something about varying levels of emptiness and activity depending on scale. E.g. the complexity of the people's bodies and cells, versus the sheer emptiness of an atom closer up. Or the busy spiral galaxy, versus the vast galactic void it resides in. The film pauses at that void to zoom back in, but in more than 40 years, we have discovered how to see even farther, and it's exactly as the narrator describes. The void becomes busy again. At even higher levels of scale, the grand structure of the universe starts to turn into an organic tissue that looks like...neurons?

[@christinestill5002]

Taught my kids w/ this one and now my grandkids. They all love it.

[@marcusruffner2674]

I remember first seeing this film at the California Academy of Sciences when I was a kid. It was a bit confusing at first, and I had no idea what was going on.

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

True story, I sat alone and ate a Burger King Whopper, fries and gurped a 40 of OE in that exact spot in 1999 when I was in the Navy. I got rolled by some seagulls but it was definitely in homage to this video. BTW my father was with IBM for fourty years and he was quite proud 😁

[@jennifer86010]

Charles and Ray Eames were great American designers, art and architecture masters. A married couple, they were very creative to say the least. This video was produced in 1977, before computer animation was available. So, they must have used photos, drawings and film adaptation to create these images. Really skilled work !!

[@axelcardiff6167]

so i watched this in class today.....

[@NSWahine]

Thank you. A lecturer named Mark Passio recommended this video in his series on Natural Law.

[@coolboy66665]

my teacher put this on at class and i want to finish it

[@nohael-shazly1637]

1. How could anyone with a sound mind see this and still not believe in God! 2. How could anyone with a sound mind hit the dislike button!

[@kdwaynec]

I believe in "god", just not the invisible kind with a long beard who lives in the clouds and watches everything we do and "answers" our feeble prayers

[@nonexistentcomedychannel5136]

my teacher sent this video to my class, I come from Switzerland and I'm pretty sure there are people in my class that don't understand English good enough to understand this Video

[@noahesk7839]

This video is really good but they get one thing wrong. When it zooms out and shows the planet it appears as a globe instead of a disc.

[@lazarojose18]

😍

[@SocksWazHere]

this blew me away it really is the best way to show how large numbers are compared to us

[@hayajaiez2427]

سبحان الله الخالق المبدع

[@jamalrobinson8321]

Jack Black and Neil deGrasse Tyson star talk podcast sent me here

[@teddymisderrick7034]

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[@riffraff60]

Saw this at the Ontario Science Center 4 decades ago.

[@meapmeap11]

im scared

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[@camtheunder-ratedstar972]

My class only got to 100,000 meters or 10 to the power of five and I'm happy we didn't go to the negatives

[@kdwaynec]

Once it passed the "...outermost dead cells into a tiny blood vessel within..." layer it was pretty pointless to me.

[@loverrapeace6975]

Has anyone made a new version of this with what we now know and in HD?

[@AnthonyFaber415]

I've seen one, but can't find it in a search for "updated powers of 10 video"

[@stevoofd]

Yes, it’s called cosmic voyage (IMAX) and is narrated by Morgan freeman: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oV7blJZoq6x4bdU

[@marcusruffner2674]

@@stevoofd I remember that. They showed it at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland.

[@padmakaranj]

Thank you😊

[@joestocking]

I have been to that picnic spot

[@olas3154]

I'm no scientist but I'm pretty sure DNA is supposed to to be coiled around proteins, not just in a hollow spring shape.

[@Sora_Nai]

1978

[@kdwaynec]

Yes, in 1978 we also thought Jupiter only had 12 moons.

[@karyepatriciaii8525]

This BLOWS MY MIND

[@mmmoroi]

I bought the original book around 1980, fascinated by the "power" of the concept of the powers of ten.

[@玄幽-p7c]

wow

[@jordanplays317]

8:09

[@brotheraleksej]

this is great, brings me back to the 80s, the film was out 3 years before me, love it.

[@Elizabeth912-v6o]

I love how we now know there is no empty space in space now!!!!!!😂

[@Xarxes81]

What if humans had 8 fingers? Powers of 8?

[@dorriethewitch1668]

Watched this in astronomy class in 2002

[@lightspeed559]

Who is here after makrand sir..??🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shortstop75]

what is that pink thing when we were going inside his hand?

[@coolboy66665]

Powers of TenPowers of TePowers of Tenn

[@SportLairVids]

Waste of my life 😂

[@mohmedzhrany6684]

وخخرااااا مش عارف احل الوظيفة الزب

[@jaggisgyan7554]

Great educational video

[@nTOWN90]

this is chaos

[@jessicakramer4643]

I remember seeing this at the St. Louis Science Center when I was a kid and then I knew there had to be a God.

[@decay-every-day]

Big oof

[@brucewill_es1000]

Why would you upload this? This isn't your video and you can easily find the original one.

[@terrypussypower]

It’s amazing how far we’ve come in 45 years!

[@barnaclescum7011]

I saw this at school and got curious