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Scale of the Universe

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:38 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Beautiful site - wouldn't work as the scale of the Ooniverse of course (although that would be amusing...)

http://scaleofuniverse.com/

Re: Scale of the Universe

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:04 pm
by Smivs
That's a really nice idea! Great fun. :)

Re: Scale of the Universe

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:42 pm
by Cmdr. Maegil
It's the Total Perspective Vortex Lite. :lol:

Re: Scale of the Universe

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:22 am
by Zbond-Zbond
DaddyHoggy wrote:
Beautiful site - wouldn't work as the scale of the Ooniverse of course (although that would be amusing...)

http://scaleofuniverse.com/
That is lovely - was there a typo at about the micron level (pm twice)? Thanks for sharing :)

Re: Scale of the Universe

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:50 am
by CommonSenseOTB
Very cool! 8)

Image

Just the thing for a hoopy frood on the go! MMMmmm mmm!

Re: Scale of the Universe

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:29 am
by Killer Wolf
i'm sure they're maiking some of that stuff up.

"pronounced YER uh niss" ~ lol. nice try.

Re: Scale of the Universe

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:44 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Killer Wolf wrote:
i'm sure they're maiking some of that stuff up.

"pronounced YER uh niss" ~ lol. nice try.
I think the BBC have settled on the syllables: YOU-RAN-US

lest children snicker everywhere at the pronunciation when I was a kid of YOUR-ANUS. :roll:

Re: Scale of the Universe

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:46 pm
by drew
Uranus is named after the ancient greek god. Thus the correct pronunciation is YOUR-IN-NUS with the emphasis on the first syllable.

Cheers,

Drew.

Re: Scale of the Universe

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:57 pm
by Cmdr. Maegil
I'm a native Portuguese (a Romance language) speaker, so I have no difficulty whatsoever with the vowels in Uranus... For me, it's simply U-ra-nus - as it was meant to be 8) .

A nearer (and less controversial) approximation for you guys might be a more closed "oo".

Re: Scale of the Universe

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:23 pm
by Selezen
So... Ooranus? Oddly fitting in this community, no?

Re: Scale of the Universe

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:09 pm
by pagroove
Thanks Daddyhoggy. Shared this on Facebook as it is a beautiful site. Good find ! :D