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PostSun Jan 12, 2014 10:41 am 
ran across this in the Astronomy Picture of the Day....too cool not to share... http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/astropix.html cool.gif

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PostSun Jan 12, 2014 11:18 am 
That is so absolutely awesome - thank you so much for posting!! up.gif Too many of my friends have suffered through me trying to communicate even a notion of these scales to them verbally. Now I can send them this link! lol.gif

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PostSun Jan 12, 2014 12:31 pm 
Super cool. There's another version of this that's been floating around on the internets for a while... Edit: Can't seem to find SOTU2 but here's another downscaler: CellularDownscale Edit2: An early version produced by the Eames brothers for IBM:
Edit3: Swirly version

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PostSun Jan 12, 2014 9:43 pm 
up.gif Thanks for sharing! WOW!

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PostMon Jan 13, 2014 7:53 am 
I have seen the original video several times before and I always enjoy looking at the pop-ups. some of them are very funny have never seen the old Chicago video before. It is not that old but compare how much knowledge and data the original video has over the second.

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