Space Engine: The Size of the Known Universe

http://en.spaceengine.org/
"Burning Bush" by Hans Zimmer from The Prince of Egypt OST.
How small are we compared to our known universe? Lets take a journey though the cosmos to the start of our home planet, 500km up in the air to the outer regions of the cosmos.

The program is called "Space Engine" where you can literary explore the whole known universe. From every planet, to every star, to every galaxy. From the velocity speed of the smallest mph (Miles par hour) , to the extreme speeds of Pc (parsec) and beyond. Its an extorniary program that space fans should not miss out on.

Check it out!
http://en.spaceengine.org/

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[Tinie Kerman]

"Travelling 5,212 mph/sec"

Uhh, that's not a speed, that's an acceleration

[JSSJR90]

whops, you are right, Sorry im human so im not perfect.

[DensoLP]

I'm sure, our galaxy has more life than just us. :) I mean... look at all these planets...

[icesagex4]

Combine this with The Kerbal Space Program. You can just stand there while I throw my money in your general direction.

[jeff butters]

thats not entirely true, just 70 years ago, space wasnt thought of to be traveled, let alone go to the moon, and with the speed of advances we make today we could relatively travel to the closest solar system in less than 1000 years.

[Sir Timothy Brewster]

What if you combined those two with the original idea of spore, and Universe Sandbox?

[wonderfalg]

I feel lost in universe.

[Dominic Farrell]

I wonder how many civilizations there are in our galaxy, I hope someday we meet some :)

[Pardock97]

Oh...

This phrase... full of epicness.

In this program it's the entire universe... but you can't explore it all because your life is too short for it.

Oh my... it's like comparing Googleplex with your thypical numbers, 39, 1385, maybe 52035 or pi, but 10^10^100 it's no comparable with anything.

Do you know that even all the particles of the entire universe are not comparable with the number of zeros in googolplex... wow...

not the number, only the zeros... like in 10 its one, in googolplex...

[JocJav]

our planet is less than an atom in comparisson to the whole universe, what if our universe is just an atom inside a cell of some entity body

[NIcola Antonello]

wonderful



[malcolmmorin]

(finished) That would truly bring the planets to life. I know Universe Sandbox does that with the asteroids and such, but Space Engine is much better. :D

[malcolmmorin]

(continued) Imagine you could speed up time and watch galaxies collide with each other, or observe from earth 1000 years in the future as Earth finally sees the destruction of the already destroyed Pillars of Creation. Imagine you could create black holes and suck in entire solar systems. Imagine you could collide planets with each other and watch the destruction ensue. On the Earth, you could see cities, with driving cars, flying planes, floating ships, and walking people. (continues)

[malcolmmorin]

I know this only focuses on space and planets and such, but imagine if they eventually added things on planets like cities and villages and towns, and the ability to play with the universe, other than exploring it. Basically, you could play God in this. Imagine launching an asteroid at a planet and generating a tsunami that wipes out the coasts of a world, or launching a larger one and reducing the entire world to nothing but a big wasteland.