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Subject: Total Perspective Vortex
Written By: Foo Bar on 06/03/08 at 11:31 pm
The closet thing to the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy's concept of the Total Perspective Vortex was released today.
Our planet orbits a star that would be indistinguishable from any of the others in any of the 16 24752-by-13520 frames that make up this 396,032-by-13,520-pixel image of our galaxy. Beside it would be an arrow indicating You Are Here.
Actually, the Vortex is a bit more powerful than that. There are only 5.3 billion pixels in the image, and it shows a disc approximatly 100,000 light-years wide. That entire image (all 396032x13520 pixels of it, of which the solar system would constitute barely one pixel) would take up less than 1/300th of a pixel square (1/100,000th of a pixel) when the Vortex showed us the entire universe at the same 5-gigapixel resolution.
Space is big. Really big. I mean, you might think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen...