Putting stuff into perspective

[ivica]

Consider this topic as an oposite to When there is no metric, 'magic' enters
i.e. as something like "When metric enters, 'magic' bows".

I hope you'll enjoy it, lets start:

"The Scale of the Universe 2" at http://htwins.net/scale2/
Credits: http://htwins.net/

[ivica]

... and proceed to:

[ivica]

What follows ?



Hopefully not



Attached:

[TerryM]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the cartoon you posted is worth a thousand tomes.


Do you have any idea where I might get permission to use it in a presentation?


Thanks
Terry

[gfwellman]

Looks like a Bizarro, so the answer would be "from Dan Piraro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_%28comic_strip%29
http://www.bizarro.com/email/index.htm
However, I've seen a lot of Bizarro's used in academic settings and I haven't heard of Dan launching a lawsuit over it yet :-)

[ivica]

Yes, the last one is Bizzaro 12-30-07 (Dan Piraro, 2007-12-30).

[TerryM]

Thanks to both of you.


It's a fantastic cartoon!


Terry

[ivica]

"Dynamics of the troposphere-stratosphere-mesosphere exchanges including contribution of gravity waves and planetary waves."


"ARISE structure and applications"

(Icequakes included :-)

Credits: ARISE: Atmospheric dynamics Research InfraStructure in Europe

"ARISE: Time-space scales and related observations" image taken from EGU 2013 presentation
"The Russian meteor and near-Earth objects" at 22:00,  image attached:

[ivica]

Terra Satellite


Terra Instruments


Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS)


EOSDIS: Earth Observing System Data and Information System

[ivica]

Working on perspective:
(1)
World Ocean Heat Content and Thermosteric Sea Level change (0-2000 m), 1955-2010,
Discussion, page 5:
"[21] We have estimated an increase of 24 * 10^22 J representing a volume mean warming of 0.09 C of the 0 – 2000 m layer of the World Ocean.
If this heat were instantly transferred to the lower 10 km of the global atmosphere it would result in a volume mean warming of this atmospheric layer by approximately 36 C (65 F).
This transfer of course will not happen; earth’s climate system simply does not work like this. But this computation does provide a perspective on the amount of heating that the earth system has undergone since 1955."

(2)
http://www.skepticalscience.com/cherrypicking-deny-continued-ocean-global-warming.html
"...and when including global heat accumulation in Nuccitelli et al. (2012) including the 0–2,000 meter oceans, the Earth has accumulated the equivalent of 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second over the past decade."

[Glenn Tamblyn]

ivica

Another one I have sometimes used, wrt the OHC data

Boiling Sydney Harbour dry 4 times a day.

[ivica]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic_tree

[Shared Humanity]

Perspective is good.

[ivica]

Yeah!, SH.

[ivica]

"Home", 2009 documentary, a bit outdated but still worth of watching even with sound off.


At the end: "It's up to us to write what happens next. Together."

[domen_]

Great documentary ivica, thanks! It's not dated at all, and it's wonderful!

[pikaia]

Find us!

[Laurent]

Yann arthus bertrand did the movie !
He has set up an organisation : http://www.goodplanet.info/?lang=en

and you may have heard him from is famous photos from the air :

http://yannarthusbertrand2.org/index.php?option=com_datsogallery&Itemid=27&func=detail&catid=117&id=3012&lang=en&l=1280

[ivica]

#1
This society is parasitic. We feed on other life. What do we give in return?
We are destroying more than we create. We are regressive. No future in that.

#2
...->atoms->molecules->life->... is what progress is for me.
(The trend of) creating more complex entities using less complex entities, that is.

Does sky above us (Nature/Universe/..., whatever you prefer) says:
You Life->..., Follow me, 'Fusion' Is The Way.

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What more we could want? What_To_Do & How_To_Do given, by Nature. No excuse.
(I don't know about peer review but it is 'published' over all Universe )

#3
We are not the same, and in that is our strength.
We can act as one, and carry each other.
And we can do that again.

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Future could be great.

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EDIT: 2015-05-01: If they (the mindset that rules over us) are any good, why are we in trouble?

Edit: 2015-08-30: "in that" bolded