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If you’re a Star Wars collector who’s looking for something that‘s both rare and useful, you might want to scurry down to Wesley Chapel, Florida to buy this TIE fighter desk for $200. Here’s the link on Facebook Marketplace.
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“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
— from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Size of Space, a creation of Neal Agarwal, is the latest in the never-ending series of visualizations meant to show you how big space is. Starting at human scale with an astronaut, this site walks you through a set of increasingly large objects, from asteroids to moons to planets to stars (and reminds us of tiny the sun is compared to stars like Rigel, which in turn is dwarfed by Betelgeuse). It goes on to cover nebulae, supernova remnants, galaxies, galaxy clusters, and finally, the observable universe (about 93 billion light years across).
If you’re not in the mood for swiping left or right (or using the arrow keys) to see the size of space, there’s this video, which covers similar objects and even gives you their sizes:
And finally, there’s the granddaddy of videos of scale: Powers of Ten, produced by the legendary Charles and Ray Eames for IBM:
This is my new favorite version of the “Woman yelling at a cat” meme. It’s a bit of an in-joke that requires you to know Filipino and how Filipinos pronounce English words.
Episode X: The Millennials Strike Back! used to be my favorite “OK Boomer” meme, but this King of the Hill one is my new fave.
Need an “OK Boomer” explainer? Start here.
This is my favorite meme using the Millennials’ favorite retort.
Also worth reading: IF YOU CALL ME A “BOOMER” YOU ARE COMMITTING A HATE CRIME on McSweeny’s.
“I’ve always thought minorities in this country exaggerated the harrowing effect of pejorative slurs. But, now that I’ve been relentlessly called a ‘boomer’ on the internet, I can finally relate to America’s many marginalized communities and their traumas. We are now one and the same: victims of structural inequality. Luckily, we have solved racism and sexism as a society and have no more work to do on those two fronts, but we still have quite a ways to go when it comes to vitriolic bigotry against people born between 1946 and 1964.”
My birthday is tomorrow (November 5th), and I’ve decided that this (see above) is what I’m going to say for the coming year in lieu of “Goodbye,” “See you later,” or the like.
Found via Brett Savory.