Scale of the Universe

[Griffin NoName]

This is fun.

http://htwins.net/scale2/

[Darlica]

Wow. That was a bit mindbogglingly... in a good scientific way.

[Opsa]

Fascinating. It took me a moment to figure out that I needed to move the blurp along the bottom bar. I liked the music, too.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Cool take on the old film "The Powers of Ten".

[Aggie]

 

[goat starer]

that is fabulous

[Griffin NoName]

I don't really understand why there's a dinosaur that's about the size of three T.Rex's.

[Aggie]

I don't really understand why there's a dinosaur that's about the size of three T.Rex's.

Tyrannosaurus rex was big for a predator, but not for a dinosaur in general.  Think of the difference in size between a very large pure carnivore like a lion or a tiger and a very large herbivore like an elephant. Plant eaters get large enough to simply outsize their predators.  It's usually fairly efficient to do so, because food is everywhere and once you are big enough to be predator-resistant, you don't need to be very fast.

[Griffin NoName]

Now I understand why we have an obesity problem in the UK. The govt. instructs us to eat 5 portions of vegetables a day.