FYI

I never knew a grain of rice looked that big compared to Times Regular, 12 point. 

Id like to see one of these bar sliding zoomable thingies for space. 

Shouldn't the salt (0.5 mm) and the amoeba (500 micrometers) be the same size? 

not on the internet 

Very cool. Saw something similar when I was young in a book that stretched size the other way, to try to illustrate the size of the universe. Sorta like the little montage at the end of Men in Black... 

Yes, but can we use it for porn somehow? 

Giblets said:

Id like to see one of these bar sliding zoomable thingies for space.

Old school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY

New school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&fmt=22 

That is one helluva coffee bean! 

Look at the size of HIV compared to a sperm.

LOOK AT IT! 

I was wondering if it was gonna go smaller than a carbon atom. Electrons and quarks and whatnot.

And as to the size of HIV, holy bejesus it's small. And it looks like the Spartans turtle formation at the end of 300! No wonder it's such a scary bitch of a virus. 

fap fap fap 

decicco said:

fap fap fap

I agree 100%. 

I don't think this is accurate.

compare the size of a chromosome to the size of a sperm.

there are supposed to be 23 chromosomes in 1 sperm.... 

haxorMAX said:

I don't think this is accurate.

compare the size of a chromosome to the size of a sperm.

there are supposed to be 23 chromosomes in 1 sperm....

DNA Coils up pretty tight. 

haxorMAX said:

I don't think this is accurate.
compare the size of a chromosome to the size of a sperm.
there are supposed to be 23 chromosomes in 1 sperm....

Good call, but they are showing the X chromosome in its centromeric form with both chromatids as seen when karyotyping by stopping a mitotic cell in metaphase. This is quite a bit bigger than its fully condensed form for meiosis into sperm or egg cells.

After meiosis, each sperm cell is left with not only 1x of the 23 chromosomes, but only 1 of the 2 chromatids that are joined at the centromere (the center of the "X" shape in the chromosome that they show for size comparison.

So, not only is it automatically half of the size that they show when it's in the sperm, but it's also packaged in a much tighter form than what they show as well. Their size comparison is correct.

/SCIENCE! 

My sperm are the size of a grain of rice.

At least I think so, because my wife calls me Minute Rice when we have sex. 

haxorMAX said:

I don't think this is accurate.

compare the size of a chromosome to the size of a sperm.

there are supposed to be 23 chromosomes in 1 sperm....

Read the footnotes.

But yeah... crazy stuff. 

ju66l3r said:

Good call, but they are showing the X chromosome in its centromeric form with both chromatids as seen when karyotyping by stopping a mitotic cell in metaphase. This is quite a bit bigger than its fully condensed form for meiosis into sperm or egg cells.

After meiosis, each sperm cell is left with not only 1x of the 23 chromosomes, but only 1 of the 2 chromatids that are joined at the centromere (the center of the "X" shape in the chromosome that they show for size comparison.

So, not only is it automatically half of the size that they show when it's in the sperm, but it's also packaged in a much tighter form than what they show as well. Their size comparison is correct.

/SCIENCE!

Couldn't have said it better myself.
/Head aspolding 

i am katie said:

Read the footnotes.

LOL, I hadn't even noticed that before I wrote my description here. Any idea if it was even there earlier? Is someone there a Fazer? 

This scale makes ma junk look HUGE! 

Giblets said:

Id like to see one of these bar sliding zoomable thingies for space.

http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/index.htm

The scale of everything. I thought about submitting this to the front page. I should. Meh. If I feel like it. 

mediaphile said:

Old school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY

New school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&fmt=22

I love that video about stars. thanks for posting it. 

This thread needs more strings (in theory) 

^ string cheese that is. 

I like how HIV looks like a chaos symbol 

EverClever said:

http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/index.htm

The scale of everything. I thought about submitting this to the front page. I should. Meh. If I feel like it.

It was front paged 2 years ago. Although it is awesome enough to show again. 

I was kind of surprised how big an e coli bacterium is. 

There's no way this is accurate. I put my dick up to the screen and that sperm is just too small! 

Giblets said:

Id like to see one of these bar sliding zoomable thingies for space.

Fazed already posted such a thing awhile back.

http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/index_f.htm 

if you zoom in all the way you can see <insert fazed member's name here>'s penis