If you want your brain to implode and make you feebleminded...then

[Barbarian]

Thanks op, that was awesome

 

This video seems appropiate here:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dx_lIv5SkHM#t=18s

[sterlingcomics]

It depresses and it exilerates at the same time.

 

+1

[Doohickamabob]

Thanks op, that was awesome. This video seems appropiate here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dx_lIv5SkHM#t=18s

Too cool, thanks for posting that opening from The Simpsons! I've never seen it. Reminds me of the title sequence for "Fight Club" too.

[Doohickamabob]

Didn't Harvey Kurtzman already think of this?

 

The first EC story I ever read. Based on an earlier SF story called 'He Who Shrank'.

 

Good to give credit where due. I think this was the first EC sci-fi story.

[AJD]

go to this site

 

http://htwins.net/scale2/

 

 

That is way cool! Thanks for the link!

 

We understand so much more about the nature of reality, than we did just a few short years ago. The universe just gets larger and larger the further technology advances. The microscopic world seems to follow suit in many ways.

 

Microverse/Macroverse theory is compelling and seems to be a real possibility. , But as our understanding of the Universe expands, we begin to realize how little we truly know. All preconceived notions of what is and is not possible, in my mind should be thrown out the window when you consider our insignifacance, compared to the universe, and our infintesimal understanding of reality.

 

We dont even understand ourselves, why we are here, were we are going.

 

How can we even hope to ever truly understand what is out there?

 

My chance to post a favorite concept: Pascalian terror. I've suffered with a horrible dread of the infinite since childhood.

 

There are several EC sci-fi stories that use this concept - the first guys into space go crazy when they see the expanse of the universe.

[Ken Aldred]

Didn't Harvey Kurtzman already think of this?

 

The first EC story I ever read. Based on an earlier SF story called 'He Who Shrank'.

 

Good to give credit where due. I think this was the first EC sci-fi story.

 

It's the first story from the first issue of Weird Science.  Loved Kurtzman's art on this title.

[Ken Aldred]

And then there's another classic example, Lee and Ditko's Tim Boo Ba, from Amazing Adult Fantasy 9.  

 

Just been reading that one in the Omnibus Edition I picked up at the London con.

[ivegotneatstuff]

[USArmyParatrooper]

go to this site

 

http://htwins.net/scale2/

 

 

Here's some scale to think about.

 

If the sun was the size of a basketball, the earth would be about the size of a pea, and the largest known star in the universe would be about 1 mile in diameter.

[Ditch Fahrenheit]

Our Solar System In One Infographic

 

Prepare to scroll...

 

[TupennyConan]

Classic imploding brain thread.

[bronzilla]

Classic imploding brain thread.

 

 

Its a great thread. Probably a little too heady for the standard pedestrian fare here in CG.

 

All the big thinkers are over in the WC

 

*sniff*

[mrblond4]

this always gets me thinking about time and how its so hard to fathom. you think of everything that has happened in the last hundred then the hundred before that and so on and so on all the way back billions of years.

[Dr. Balls]

 

Approves.

[violentluke]

that was the coolest thing ive seen on the internet in awhile, thanks for posting