that was really cool. thanks.

that reminds me, when are they releasing the abyss blu ray dang it.

Yeah, images like that with a variety of facts on an issue i always enjoy. With regards to that death zone, hasnt there been people who have climbed everest without breathing assistance? Or was that shorter mountains?

There is enough oxygen in the death zone to stop you from instantly suffocating but if you stay there over a prolonged period you are guaranteed to die.

edit: this has been posted heaps but it is my favourite thing on the internet http://htwins.net/scale2/

There is enough oxygen in the death zone to stop you from instantly suffocating but if you stay there over a prolonged period you are guaranteed to die.

according to the wiki, if you haven't spent a prolonged period of time acclimatizing to that altitude, you'll lose consciousness within a few minutes.

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Very cool stuff in this thread

cheers team

I had no idea the South Pole was at such an altitude. Today I learned something cool! ;D

Great stuff in this thread, that Hubble utlra deep field has blown my mindhole!! I didn't realise it was a zoom out from such a small section of the already observable universe.

I like xckd's two scales:

Height:


Depth:

if you want your mind blown, watch the 3 episodes of nova's fabric of the cosmos, narrated by brian greene. they're available on youtube. here's the one about quantum mechanics.

Join Brian Greene on a wild ride into the weird realm of quantum physics, which governs the universe on the tiniest of scales. Greene brings quantum mechanics to life in a nightclub like no other, where objects pop in and out of existence and things over here can affect others over there, instantaneously—without anything crossing the space between them. A century ago, during the initial shots in the quantum revolution, the best minds of a generation—including Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr—squared off in a battle for the soul of physics. How could the rules of the quantum world, which work so well to describe the behavior of individual atoms and their components, appear so dramatically different from the everyday rules that govern people, planets, and galaxies? Quantum mechanics may be counterintuitive, but it's one of the most successful theories in the history of science, making predictions that have been confirmed to better than one part in a billion, while also launching the technological advances at the heart of modern life, like computers and cell phones. But even today, even with such profound successes, the debate sill rages over what quantum mechanics implies for the true nature of reality.

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This is also awesome: