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Title: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: rscaper1070 on August 05, 2011, 06:00:51 pm: This might have been posted before but I did a search and nothing came up. Even if it was posted this is still worth posting again. I first saw it on a TED Talks (http://www.ted.com/talks/carter_emmart_demos_a_3d_atlas_of_the_universe.html) about a year ago.

Here's a version without the commentary.

Digital Universe Atlas (http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe)
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: Thaeris on August 05, 2011, 07:41:18 pm: So, this is kind of like a better version of Celestia, maybe?
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: rscaper1070 on August 05, 2011, 08:40:18 pm: I was just pointing out the video. The program is pretty cool too but very complicated (at least to my poor brain). Celestia is much more user friendly. Although with the Digital Universe Atlas you can plot accurate courses beyond the Milky Way galaxy.
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: watsisname on August 05, 2011, 09:21:08 pm: I love that video, one of my all-time favorites along with The Powers of 10 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0). I didn't know the software used for it was freely available, gonna have to check this out. :yes:
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: achtung on August 06, 2011, 01:15:51 am: Quote from: watsisname on August 05, 2011, 09:21:08 pm
I love that video, one of my all-time favorites along with The Powers of 10 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0). I didn't know the software used for it was freely available, gonna have to check this out. :yes:

Morgan Freeman does it better, sorry. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXf7AJZ73A)
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: watsisname on August 06, 2011, 01:29:22 am: I'll give you that, just because Morgan Freeman does EVERYTHING better. I can ~~masterbate furiously~~ listen to him narrating for ANYTHING.
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: Mefustae on August 06, 2011, 01:53:19 pm: Quote from: Swantz on August 06, 2011, 01:15:51 am
Quote from: watsisname on August 05, 2011, 09:21:08 pm
I love that video, one of my all-time favorites along with The Powers of 10 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0). I didn't know the software used for it was freely available, gonna have to check this out. :yes:

Morgan Freeman does it better, sorry. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXf7AJZ73A)

Morgan Freeman may be ~~God~~ good, but I'll take retro 70's edutainment any day.
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: Nuke on August 06, 2011, 05:15:53 pm: i want to see morgan freeman narrate porn. rule 34/35 ftw!
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: AtomicClucker on August 06, 2011, 08:27:37 pm: Quote from: Nuke on August 06, 2011, 05:15:53 pm
i want to see morgan freeman narrate porn. rule 34/35 ftw!

It wouldn't just be porn, it would be Porn Nouveau.

Samuel Jackson narrating porn... that is actually a little frightening.
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: Thaeris on August 06, 2011, 10:55:55 pm: I'M TIRED OF THESE MOTHER****ERS MOTHER****ING!

:p
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: Nuke on August 07, 2011, 04:08:28 am: MOTHER****ING SNAKES

HOLY **** THAT MOVIE SUCKED. IT WAS SO BAD IT MAKE ME VEWY VERY DRUNK. AOLL HAIL LORD AND MASTER BOOZE!
Title: Re: Digital Universe Atlas
Post by: watsisname on August 07, 2011, 04:56:24 am: The thread! It can't even stay on the course of the tangent it went off on! :lol: