In the same vein as the previous post, this is another website which helps give us some perspective through use of the sideways scroll bar. This website has all of the planets of our solar system on a single page, at the correct size and distance from each other.
See “The Solar System” in perspective.
For some perspective on the evolutionary time scale, you absolutely must visit this website:
It has a very clear visual representation of the history of the evolution of life on earth. It also has a link to the visual representation of the Hominid Timeline, which is equally shocking in its own right – particularly when you realise that the enormous image which shows just how short human civilisation is, all exists in the small blip at the end of the evolutionary timeline.
Such a long period of time…How is that for some perspective?
This video provides some great size perspective on the cosmological scale. If you think the Earth is big, then watch the video and get some perspective on just how small the Earth can be compared to some astronomical bodies. The size of these bodies boggle our minds – we cannot actually fathom sizes of that magnitude – but animations like this help us to try to understand them, at least a little bit.
Welcome to Some Perspective, a blog designed to offer easy to grasp perspective about our world. The goal of this blog is to provide ongoing images, animations, videos and articles which provide clear perspective on issues that we encounter repeatedly in our own lives. The goal is not necessarily to push any particular point of view, or to persuade anyone to any particular conclusion – it is simply to provide some much needed perspective, to the various topics.
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