The Year in Review

[Bull Winkus]

This short Vimeo video gives us a third person (or is it third solar system?) point of view of all of the real estate, including the mountain sized boulders in the astroid belt, in our little corner of the galaxy ? in motion ? for the year 2013.

Yeah. I remember most of that.

Sort of?
Herb

http://vimeo.com/83066400

[Randall75]

Hi Herb
 very interesting


cheers


 

[elagache]

Hi Herb, Randall, and WeatherCat astronomers,

This short Vimeo video gives us a third person (or is it third solar system?) point of view of all of the real estate, including the mountain sized boulders in the astroid belt, in our little corner of the galaxy ? in motion ? for the year 2013.

Viewed like that it might be a little scary, but there is some compression of space in the view.  The real picture is much more vast.  In space there is an awful lot of - SPACE!  When I was a kid, I had the National Geographic map of the moon on my wall.  It had all sorts of interesting info on the Apollo program and so on.  At the bottom was the earth, moon, and the space in between them to scale.  Wow!  Those were two tiny dots on each end of the map and huge gap in between them.  It definitely got the point across of how vast the distances are in between bodies in the solar system.

Cheers, Edouard 

[Bull Winkus]

Very good point Edouard! And, it's supposedly growing larger all the time. ? if you believe the Astronomers, which I do, considering that with all that emptiness they can still land an unmanned object on Mars in a pretty tightly targeted field of rocks.

They must have awesome slide rules!
Herb

[elagache]

Howdy Herb and WeatherCat space explorers . . . . .

Very good point Edouard! And, it's supposedly growing larger all the time. ? if you believe the Astronomers . . .

  . . . That's exactly what I suspected!  I knew we had much more inflation that those darn economists were admitting to!! . . . 

They must have awesome slide rules!

Alas, I fear that we were better off in some cases when the engineers only had slide rules.  As we all know:

To err is human, but to really mess things up - you need a computer!

Let us not forget the Mars Polar lander that crashed because one engineer was working in Imperial units while the scientists were working in metric.

Believe it or not there is still an official website for that lander more than decade after it crashed:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/lander/

Cheers, Edouard 

[Blicj11]

Thanks for posting the link Herb. I really like the video for putting things in perspective.