www.quitethehike.co.uk
I'm not sure why. Surprisingly, modern browsers have no problems rendering fucking
insane page sizes, so I plan to add things like the Oort cloud one day.
Posted by
syl, 3 years ago:
That's awesome and very interesting.
P.s. You got insomnia?
Posted by
syl, 3 years ago:
Damn, I deleted all my Mafia Wars friends on Facebook and ended up deleting some friends as well. :(
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
typo: "There has been life of the planet for around three and a half billion years."
life
on
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
and on firefox it's waaaay too slow. over a minute to get to venus so far
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
same in chrome.
in IE8 it has JS error on startup:
Message: Invalid argument.
Line: 19
Char: 35190
Code: 0
URI:
www.lsav4.co.uk/js/jquery.js
Message: Invalid argument.
Line: 19
Char: 35190
Code: 0
URI:
www.lsav4.co.uk/js/jquery.js
which stops the 'the scrollbar...' dialog and the bottom links from being positioned correctly. also takes minutes to scroll anywhere
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
and same speed in safari.
what browser are you testing this on? o_O
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
as for the oort cloud, even modern browsers have their limits. distances are approximate since we don't really know
inner cloud edge: 1,000,000 AU
outer cloud edge: 10,000,000 AU
1000 miles per pixel = 93,000 pixels per AU
inner cloud edge: 93 billion pixels
outer cloud edge: 930 billion pixels
Posted by
che, 3 years ago:
Well I think it's nice Grim...
Posted by
che, 3 years ago:
Have tried it on Firefox 3 and IE 7 and works quickly on both
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
a screencast:
www.screencast-o-matic.com/...
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
don't get me wrong - it's cool. it's just not working as intended for me
IE-schmi-e (it worked the other night, but I don't think I have the latest version of IE8 - I'll take another look at some point).
Anyhoo, it's
meant to take that long - you're "only" going at light speed ("To get some idea of how big the Solar system is, click here to travel to Venus at the speed of light"). I'll have to put an escape on the journey. Clicking the menu at the bottom should whizz you around fairly quick.
I've moved Pluto out into the edge of where the Oort cloud would be in Crome and Firefox to see if they'd work, and they both rendered a page 1 trillion pixels wide as quickly as they rendered the current one.
Posted by
che, 3 years ago:
lol
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
oh! you meant the literal speed of light. i thought you were using that as a figure of speech :D
speed of light = 299,792 km per second
www62.wolframalpha.com/inpu...
current distance between earth and venus = 88,130,000 km
www62.wolframalpha.com/inpu...
time taken: 294 seconds (4m 54s)
5 minutes is quite a while to wait!
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
chrome renders it (after about 1.5 seconds), but gets very sad if you try to scroll to the RHS edge. still only using 26MB of memory though. <3 chrome
And I need to change it so I'm not mixing up metric and imperial units. And that error code is a giveaway that I'm writing LSav4 =]
Oh fuck me, now a search for 'quitethehike' pulls up IAmCal before that page! Ha!
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
thanks for the links speedup - otherwise sun to pluto would take 5.5 hours of scrolling :D
Thinking is the best way to travel.
Posted by
Miki, 3 years ago:
very nice :D
thanks for the links speedup - otherwise sun to pluto would take 5.5 hours of scrolling :D
I done narfin' - the links at the bottom always went really fast. It was only the one in the blurb about the Earth that shot you off (or not) at light speed.
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
you sure? i seem to remember them being slower
Posted by
che, 3 years ago:
I remember when this was all fields...
kewl
>click here to travel to Venus at the speed of light.
zzzzz :)
did you know the speed of light varies with matter density? so you can create a black hole in a bose-einstein condensate just by swirling it, and light takes quarter of a million years to get from the centre of the sun to the surface.
that's SO gotta suck if you're a photon. you spend quarter of a million years fighting your way out through sludge, and then finally you're free. FREE! zipping along! BOOMing through space!
then a tiny 8 minutes later: *BANG*
"what the fuck!? who the fuck put this PLANET here??? what are the fucking ODDS? why me?!?!"
"phew, it's all right, i hit a tree. ok, so now i'm vibrating weirdly, i feel all... green. but i'm still going. i'm still alive. i'm still TRAVELLING at the speed of me. booyeah.
ARGH! somebody SAW me! i'm being absorbed by a retina!! i'm melting, i'm meltinggggggggg"
everytime you look at porn, you kill a baby photon.
please.
think about the photons.
in similar vein to your site grim..., check this one out. it's a scale model of a single Atom of hydrogen, showing its single proton and its single electron. the electron is shown as the smallest unit displayable on your screen: a single pixel.
go see it. if for no other reason than that you can then say you've visited a web page 11 miles wide.
www.phrenopolis.com/perspec...
And you thought there was a lot of empty space in the solar system. Well, there's even more nothing inside an atom. A hydrogen atom is only about a ten millionth of a millimeter in diameter, but the proton in the middle is a hundred thousand times smaller, and the electron whizzing around the outside is a thousand times smaller than THAT. The rest of the atom is empty. I tried to picture it, and I couldn't. So I put together this page - and I still can't picture it.
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
weird - page has no scroll bar for me in FF3/Win
Physicists just make shit up.
(€6.4bn later)
SCENE: Newton Isle, a recently purchased Caribbean idyll. physicists recline on the beach, sipping tropical cocktails.
"dude, can you BELIEVE they bought into that 'hadron' crap?"
"'large hadron collider'. hilarious. that bit with the black hole destroying the earth was a particular touch of genius, i thought."
"to be fair, we got lucky with a typo. it was originally 'haduon'."
"doctor, i salute you regardless. also, i have ordered my serried ranks of staff to salute you."
"thank you, doctor"
"no, no -- thank YOU"
"bo'sun higgs?"
"yes sah!"
"sail over to switzerland and announce yourself, will you? we need to change the fundamental theoretical understanding of physical reality or they'll want their island back."
"aye aye, sah!"
Posted by
cal, 3 years ago:
well,
i loved this thread :D
Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar. One of them says to the other "I think I've lost one of my electrons."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm positive."
Posted by
friday, 3 years ago:
My head hurts....