My mom, Wendy Vanguard, is the artist who painted all of the close up frames of skin cells, etc :) She has the coolest stories working directly with Ray Eames.
Everyone has noticed different aspects of this video, but nobody has noticed that this guy has been putting hearts under the comments for 10 years. I think this is the true Power of Ten. ✊👏💖
I first watched this movie in 1980 when I was 8 years old and in 3rd grade, then several times in the school years that followed, then again today. I always looked forward to watching this film, and was excited when the teachers fired up the projector and announced that it would be shown. If I hadn't been shown this film, I likely would have chosen a different path for my life. Thank you to the producers of this film!
I also first saw this in 1980. But I was 20. It blew my mind. It's probably the reason I have an observatory in my back yard and take photos of space with my telescopes.
After reading it was nine minutes long I checked - didn’t feel like nine minutes. Felt like three. Absolutely incredible presentation. Hard to believe it was made in 1977.
We're still being assigned this video in university in 2022! It's amazing how powerful it is to be able to visualize these numbers. Takes it from something you can't wrap your head around to a breathtaking idea!
You were assigned a video to watch. In 2001 we had to watch a crazy-haired Mr. Bean lookalike wearing a sweater vest sucking on Altoids trying to hide the fact that he snuck outside to smoke on our lunch break get excited over this. What he was trying to say sunk in later and stuck. But THAT experience was a more powerful message than what the intended message was at the time and why it stuck. I’m willing to bet you won’t remember watching this video in 10 years.
@@daniellekrin my professor was insanely excited about this video; it was assigned to us but we watched it in class. I'm sure I'll remember this video in 10 years, but not because of my professor. This video is intensely fascinating, and provides an interesting perspective on our lives. I'm sure it was fun in 2001 but we can still have fun in the big ol year of 2023 :)
@@phantomunleashed3289 I was suggesting that a man whom got excited over basically nothing got excited over [the idea] and for good reason. I don’t know about you, but in early high school we were definitely not yet capable of understanding anything other than the world was ours.
"A man" doesn't mean every man. There exists a man who can do that, therefore, A man can run 100 meters in 10 seconds. It's like if I said a penny is in my pocket, and you complained that you were in possession of a penny that was not in my pocket, but my statement was still a true statement because it doesn't require every penny in the universe to be in my pocket.
A science teacher showed us this in high school in probably 2002. I have dealt with an obscene amount of negative experiences in life and this video ALWAYS makes me feel better instantly. I wish I could thank whoever decided to produce this video giving the science a visual representation.
I wish I had seen it in high school in 2002! It's a fantastic meditation for people who "can't do meditation"! A good exercise in healthy detachment. This is definitely a science video, but I see the spirituality in everything and this pretty much solidifies a lot of what I be talking about in a quick non-preachy visual.
Very interesting. Never thought it had a spiritual angle but you know it dies out things in perspective. We and our problems are very small compared to this universe, yet they seem so big.
I remember this being shown to us in 1977. I was a sophomore in HS. I was already on a science track and this film solidified my love of chemistry and astronomy. A classic that has stood the test of time!
My dad is a philosophy nerd and spoke to me about the world with wonder in his voice. He showed me this video, as well as many other classics, before the age of 7. Now I am watching it for class as a 22-year-old. Funny how many things dad showed me when I was young that my college professors require their students to watch now.
@@antoinedujardin this is one of the best, but if you google powers of ten videos you will have a choice. i saw my 1st in the wonderful metaphysical year of 2012. it also started in Chicago but was a little better.
There is a cool one about ATP synthesis where all of the parts of the cell are anamated with awesome CG. If I had seen that in high school ( missed it by 10 years) I would have been in chemistry right now.
Funny thing, there was an episode of Star Trek, the original series, where Scotty sets up a device to amplify sounds, and he announces that the thing has an amplification factor of 1 to the 10th power or something.
I'm going to show this video for my granddaughter's tenth birthday. She's very very mathematical and has understandings far beyond her years. I also love that IBM was a partner in this (and my dad worked for IBM from the 1950's through 1983. ) Happy birthday, Bea...you're ten and you're powerful!
When I was a little kid they showed this on loop at my local science museum. I was absolutely glued to it; I still think it's one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen.
The spooky music was a proxy for everything I don't understand that scares me (ie. math), Tales of Mere Existence. Those Eames were visionaries of reality. Airplane and Animal House were scored by two different musicians.
The 1970's feels like a time when such respect and appreciation of art was considered... creating a viewable piece of art was a privilege and honor, it shows in these older films... It was never a way to make a quick living but rather a way to showcase skill and ability
I think it's more like, they had more time to do it right and think about what they were doing, because the tools they had to use made it take a lot longer, and they also had a lot less competition for doing it, so they had a lot more motivation to do it well too, and THAT'S why the finished product is so much classier.
The fact that every tenth power gets displayed as real life tiny events like how far a person can run, and where the boats are docked. Its just very impressive, and amazing.
This is what they mean when they say 'if it aint broke, don't fix it' I watched this video in middle school and high school when my teachers showed it to me Now I teach middle and high school and share it as much as I can with my students. :) one of the best videos on the internet of all time!
This helps put everything into perspective. Next time I get upset over something or react negatively to someone's affront, I will remember this video and get a proper perspective. That ought to do it...... One of my teachers in India used to respond to a person's woes by sitting on the floor while looking at a poster of the night sky, showing galaxies and distant stars. He would point his finger to some little point on the poster and say, "We are right about here." Then after a minute or two he would ask that person, "Now do you have any other problems?"
I remember this very film being shown at school in about 1978 .. and it triggered a certain scientific fascination that influenced the direction I took into my eventual career. Amazing to see it again !
Sam ...so...something you dont understand you destroy...You sound like you were trained as an indoctrinated corporate statist in America...Am i getting warm?
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. I still vividly remember watching it in school as a child and how profoundly it affected my world view. Now I get to share it with my kids. Awesome!
Me too. Well, not a maths teacher - but saw it in 80s as a kiddie and, along with Isaac Asimov science fact books etc., it prompted my lifelong interest in science, astronomy, cosmology. Fantastic. A bit clunky of course.I was looking at the history a while back and see it was inspired by some even clunkier, earlier stuff - "Cosmic View". Some links below on the trail there in case interested; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten_(film) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_View www.vendian.org/mncharity/cosmicview/ GP
Oh my god, how did they make all the visuals for this in 1977! so insane. Making this with today's user-friendly graphical programs would still be no small task.
I first saw this as a film student in the early '90's. I've never seen space explained so logically or elegantly. A powerful film, a defining testament to the ties which bond us all.
I had my first panic attack watching this video cause I felt like my mind expanded with the video and I could actually sense the scale of everything.. I've matured since then so it doesn't bother me anymore, in fact this video is amazing, but I pride this as the beginning of my spiritual awakening
movies are extremely entertaining. you need to fill your glass with movies and take a hearty gulp my friend. earthly delights await you. GULP GULP GULP *takes a swig of LIFE* - Stanly Rubik's
Why would you rack up a debt that you can't discharge and you can never pay off? It would have been far better for you to have gotten a mcjob after high school. Granted I wasted 5 years in college too, but at least I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't dirt cheap at a state school.
This was part of an exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. I remember its impact even as a young child. Sobering dose of reality in the universe.
wow :o it must've taken a very strong throw to get it up to the 24th power of 10! with modern strength training, we could throw it up to the 69th and see *joe who*
skweeds: There's an updated 1996 version narrated by Morgan Freeman called Cosmic Voyage. It's on RUclips. Not much is different in the new version except for showing the superclusters of galaxies.
The Eames' were such amazing people; a "married" couple, and Progressive innovators to boot! They each and together personified the definition of renaissance men/women! I'm afraid most people today -- tragically-- have no idea who they were, or, what they were so famously celebrated for?!
I saw this in High School, still gives me goosebumps today! I remember a large book of the movie, each page taking you further out and further in. It had such an impact on me, it blew my tiny brain!! So pleased to have found it again.
I keep having to remind people on facebook that this is still infinitely better than the awful viral video that goes around these days, which attempts to show something similar but is worse in every aspect.
I have been as amateur astronomer from decades and worked at a planetarium for 4 years in college, best job I ever had. I was first shown this video during my time there and loved it. I still watch it this video from time-to-time and it always reminds me of those fun times in my life and reminds me of the vastness of space. Thanks for sharing your old classic with the world. Clear skies!
@@wildanS - Seems like almost every audio and video recording every made will wind up on RUclips at some point. Wonder how many server farms they will need when it reaches "critical mass."
A great book for anyone interested is "Sizing Up the Universe." And I used this film to show my grade 6 son why powers of 10 was important to understand. It was a "woah" moment.
The film 'A Matter of Life and Death' starring David Niven, made during the second world war, begins with the same words, then zooms in to Earth, down to a bomber aircraft on fire over the shore of Britain. Later there is a zoom out from a court of law, to the vast arena surrounding it, out into space, revealing the arena is a galaxy in the night sky. A film of H.G. Wells' story 'The Man Who Could Work Miracles' IIRC, also begins with those words.
lol, definitely:) I always figured that if all the billions of atoms, in our bodies can cooperate throughout our life times to stay in such close vicinity, ....ah, but, even we, who are free to think we can choose otherwise, do not, and end up,not far from home....humn....interesting indeed.
That speed of light line (in 1 second) is so interesting. Kinda shows you how slow that is still compared to the size of the universe (or how big the universe is compared to it)
Censtudios- It also shows the box we are in unless we find a way around the "speed of light" speed limit. Most of the universe is way beyond our reach.
I want to inform people that even to this day(early 2022 roughly 45 years after its production) in my college Astronomy course, this film is still shown. I imagine and deeply hope that it will be shown forever.
That's because way too many people believe in conspiracies and crazy stuff to take notice, even if it were produced. Although that said, you can still find incredible videos like this, the world hasn't entirely lost it's grip on reality.
It was created in the 70s…u watched it nearly 20+ years later…and here i am watching it in 2022 and still mind blown….there is a newere version made by bbc and narrated by brian cox. That one just shows the space part and not the molecular level but still very interesting and well made with great resolution and attention to detail.
Watching this video in 2021, interestingly suggested by an online lecturer in Immunology. I'm definitely going to have my 6 and 9-yr kids watch this... I'm 100% certain they will be amazed!
Ray Main not really your brain can only think so fast, it’s actually about .03 sec slower cause electricity travels through your brain mass. good try tho.
@@datgio4951 You failed to understand what he meant. He's referring to the "distance" traveled within the video. With the help of computers and our MIND we can easily visualize massive distances without having to actually travel millions of light-years Nice try tho.
Kinda fun to think how our size, the size of humans, is roughly average when you take the size of the universe into account. People tend to understand the universe is way more massive than us, even if we can't quite conceive it, but many seem to ignore the fact that we are to a proton what the universe is to us.
maybe you are right, but maybe there are things much smaller than atoms, or things much bigger than the known universe... or maybe both at the same time so your statement would still be right lol
I always show this when I'm substitute teaching and the teacher doesn't leave plans. Today it's my AP Calculus class and they loved it! Such a classic.
That exponential growth would actually make a fun calculus assignment. Could have them try to calculate the exact distance at each point in the video given the times listed
My mom, Wendy Vanguard, is the artist who painted all of the close up frames of skin cells, etc :) She has the coolest stories working directly with Ray Eames.
Awesome!
Cool!
a big thank you to her!
It would be very interesting to hear these stories.
your mom is so cool
Everyone has noticed different aspects of this video, but nobody has noticed that this guy has been putting hearts under the comments for 10 years. I think this is the true Power of Ten. ✊👏💖
Wait, how
and he is the original author, cool
@G E T R E K T 905 he probably wasn't trying to fool you. He said 10 years because the video released in 2010.
🤣
its because this video is way popular than the rest of his videos
Respects to the Camera Man for flying into the depths of space and the deepest parts of an atom to make this incredible video
It was Ray Palmer, The Atom, after he retired from DC Comics.
Maybe it was a woman
@@kennethamon1406 bruh 😐
You’re so unfunny and you don’t even know it
😂
I first watched this movie in 1980 when I was 8 years old and in 3rd grade, then several times in the school years that followed, then again today. I always looked forward to watching this film, and was excited when the teachers fired up the projector and announced that it would be shown. If I hadn't been shown this film, I likely would have chosen a different path for my life. Thank you to the producers of this film!
Wow...!
Agreed. I feel it also changed and is still changing my life
What a great comment
I also first saw this in 1980. But I was 20. It blew my mind. It's probably the reason I have an observatory in my back yard and take photos of space with my telescopes.
I was working at Pyramid Films in 1977. Everybody who screened this nine minute film agreed it would become a classic. And so it has.....
This film was actually a remake. The original was in 1968
ruclips.net/video/7f5x_dRKIF4/видео.html
TOTAL Classic
After reading it was nine minutes long I checked - didn’t feel like nine minutes. Felt like three. Absolutely incredible presentation. Hard to believe it was made in 1977.
How old are you now sir 😅
@@djmips Wow, I never knew there was a previous version. Thanks.
the fact that this wasmade in 1977 blows my mind, imagine what could be done with today's technology, someone should make a new version of this!
indeed
nukemonk more zoom in and out, better quality i dont know
+weloca Harald Lesch is my Favorite Professor :D (im german btw)
P00rStr94
Meiner auch :D
+Marty McFly Watch Morgan freeman's talk on the cosmos. Talks about this, quite amazing!
physics is a hell of a drug
Do you do drugs?
Max Malten epic, sure it is.
Max Malten you should put that on T shirt and sell it!
As a physicist, I can confirm this statement.
@@Karackal, I concur here.
We're still being assigned this video in university in 2022! It's amazing how powerful it is to be able to visualize these numbers. Takes it from something you can't wrap your head around to a breathtaking idea!
You were assigned a video to watch. In 2001 we had to watch a crazy-haired Mr. Bean lookalike wearing a sweater vest sucking on Altoids trying to hide the fact that he snuck outside to smoke on our lunch break get excited over this. What he was trying to say sunk in later and stuck. But THAT experience was a more powerful message than what the intended message was at the time and why it stuck. I’m willing to bet you won’t remember watching this video in 10 years.
@@daniellekrin my professor was insanely excited about this video; it was assigned to us but we watched it in class. I'm sure I'll remember this video in 10 years, but not because of my professor. This video is intensely fascinating, and provides an interesting perspective on our lives. I'm sure it was fun in 2001 but we can still have fun in the big ol year of 2023 :)
@@phantomunleashed3289 I was suggesting that a man whom got excited over basically nothing got excited over [the idea] and for good reason. I don’t know about you, but in early high school we were definitely not yet capable of understanding anything other than the world was ours.
We’re still being assigned this video in university in 2023!
It's almost the end of 2023 and yet we're still watching it at uni!
“The distance a man can run in 10 seconds” I think you highly overestimate me
CrazyShadow He said man.
I think you are a god compared to me
"A man" doesn't mean every man. There exists a man who can do that, therefore, A man can run 100 meters in 10 seconds. It's like if I said a penny is in my pocket, and you complained that you were in possession of a penny that was not in my pocket, but my statement was still a true statement because it doesn't require every penny in the universe to be in my pocket.
I failed the audition too lol
@@tnrc75 NO
A science teacher showed us this in high school in probably 2002. I have dealt with an obscene amount of negative experiences in life and this video ALWAYS makes me feel better instantly. I wish I could thank whoever decided to produce this video giving the science a visual representation.
I wish I had seen it in high school in 2002! It's a fantastic meditation for people who "can't do meditation"! A good exercise in healthy detachment. This is definitely a science video, but I see the spirituality in everything and this pretty much solidifies a lot of what I be talking about in a quick non-preachy visual.
You are not alone.
Happy for you that this helps you feel better! It is an amazingly powerful and yet beautiful film indeed. Hope that things improve in your life!
Very interesting. Never thought it had a spiritual angle but you know it dies out things in perspective. We and our problems are very small compared to this universe, yet they seem so big.
I remember this being shown to us in 1977. I was a sophomore in HS. I was already on a science track and this film solidified my love of chemistry and astronomy. A classic that has stood the test of time!
My dad is a philosophy nerd and spoke to me about the world with wonder in his voice. He showed me this video, as well as many other classics, before the age of 7. Now I am watching it for class as a 22-year-old. Funny how many things dad showed me when I was young that my college professors require their students to watch now.
I DID THE SAME WITH MY SONS. THIS IS REALLY A SPARK FOR THE SPIRIT.
May I ask you what are the others classics please ?
@@antoinedujardin this is one of the best, but if you google powers of ten videos you will have a choice. i saw my 1st in the wonderful metaphysical year of 2012. it also started in Chicago but was a little better.
There is a cool one about ATP synthesis where all of the parts of the cell are anamated with awesome CG. If I had seen that in high school ( missed it by 10 years) I would have been in chemistry right now.
This is so much cooler than powers of one.
best anime
@Neil Verma It's neither jojo nor anime.
It's orders of magnitude better.
@Neil Verma based shitter get ucke
Funny thing, there was an episode of Star Trek, the original series, where Scotty sets up a device to amplify sounds, and he announces that the thing has an amplification factor of 1 to the 10th power or something.
I'm going to show this video for my granddaughter's tenth birthday. She's very very mathematical and has understandings far beyond her years. I also love that IBM was a partner in this (and my dad worked for IBM from the 1950's through 1983. ) Happy birthday, Bea...you're ten and you're powerful!
When I was a little kid they showed this on loop at my local science museum. I was absolutely glued to it; I still think it's one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen.
Me too!
National Air and Space museum?
@@spencermack9023 California Academy of Sciences.
I first saw this at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley.
Me too
@@D.A.99740 Looks like we have the same childhood!
45 years old and still the best illustration of the concept and an amazing viewing experience!
I'm 45 too. Can't believe this was made the year I was born.
32 and found this today on my own. Amazing!
I love the fact that the guy who wrote the music for this also scored "Airplane!" and "Animal House".
Hey Lev, cool seeing you here.
@@harrisonspiteri8729 Hey Yax. Yeah, I really love this film.
The spooky music was a proxy for everything I don't understand that scares me (ie. math), Tales of Mere Existence. Those Eames were visionaries of reality. Airplane and Animal House were scored by two different musicians.
No way! Who woulda thought!
and The
The 1970's feels like a time when such respect and appreciation of art was considered... creating a viewable piece of art was a privilege and honor, it shows in these older films... It was never a way to make a quick living but rather a way to showcase skill and ability
Not to mention a properly-funded public education.
I think it's more like, they had more time to do it right and think about what they were doing, because the tools they had to use made it take a lot longer, and they also had a lot less competition for doing it, so they had a lot more motivation to do it well too, and THAT'S why the finished product is so much classier.
Social media has made everyone too self-conscious, pressured to make content and keep subscribers happy.
We lost 40 powers of quality and style since then :)
scepticalchymist how are we not just lines?????
The fact that every tenth power gets displayed as real life tiny events like how far a person can run, and where the boats are docked. Its just very impressive, and amazing.
This is what they mean when they say 'if it aint broke, don't fix it'
I watched this video in middle school and high school when my teachers showed it to me
Now I teach middle and high school and share it as much as I can with my students. :) one of the best videos on the internet of all time!
I’m watching this for class right now but I might just have to rewatch in a different state of mind
exactly what i was thinking lol
on god
Same lol
Blaze it my dudes
me too
Movie from 1977, ladies and gentlemen. 1977.
The same year that brought us Star Wars. Coincidence?
yes
Gummy Yes. It was a coincidence.
The absolute proof that humanity is kept stupid on purpose.
Through the schooling system, media, stress, etc.
This helps put everything into perspective. Next time I get upset over something or react negatively to someone's affront, I will remember this video and get a proper perspective. That ought to do it......
One of my teachers in India used to respond to a person's woes by sitting on the floor while looking at a poster of the night sky, showing galaxies and distant stars. He would point his finger to some little point on the poster and say, "We are right about here." Then after a minute or two he would ask that person, "Now do you have any other problems?"
love it
I remember this very film being shown at school in about 1978 .. and it triggered a certain scientific fascination that influenced the direction I took into my eventual career. Amazing to see it again !
the music is so spooky
This is just one of the best films ever made hands down.
Great piece of education.They should do a 2017 version. Since 1977 new discoveries of subatomic particles have been made.
Not only is it complete madness, it has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Numitron I removed that guys comment. I couldn't make sense of it.
Sam ...so...something you dont understand you destroy...You sound like you were trained as an indoctrinated corporate statist in America...Am i getting warm?
+getredytagetredy No, I'm into the energy business. Look, I'm also a anti-globalist. Also, this subject is irrelevant.
Sam ...Ill close the door gently then...
Huge shoutout to the production team on this video. Really spectacular for 1977!
As my AP Physics teacher once said: "Don't do drugs, do physics."
Enough of either amounts to a similar experience.
This video made me think of all the times I've heard people say their trips have made them aware of these patterns
Fuck that. Weed is great.
Absolutely true
I'm literally stoned while watching this.
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. I still vividly remember watching it in school as a child and how profoundly it affected my world view. Now I get to share it with my kids. Awesome!
Watched this video in high school math class in the '80's, and I loved it then! Now I am a math teacher, and I still love it!
Angie Hopwood a *hot* math teacher
so great!
@@rl2552 lol
I watched it 4 years ago in High School´s Physics class, and one day I am gonna be saying the same thing as you!
Me too. Well, not a maths teacher - but saw it in 80s as a kiddie and, along with Isaac Asimov science fact books etc., it prompted my lifelong interest in science, astronomy, cosmology. Fantastic. A bit clunky of course.I was looking at the history a while back and see it was inspired by some even clunkier, earlier stuff - "Cosmic View". Some links below on the trail there in case interested;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten_(film)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_View
www.vendian.org/mncharity/cosmicview/
GP
Oh my god, how did they make all the visuals for this in 1977! so insane. Making this with today's user-friendly graphical programs would still be no small task.
Comments like this is why nobody like zoomers.
I first saw this as a film student in the early '90's. I've never seen space explained so logically or elegantly. A powerful film, a defining testament to the ties which bond us all.
1977: "Soon, the Earth will show as a solid sphere."
2017: "Uh, actually, the Earth is Flat."
2057: "Pfft, you believe in the Earth?"
Sadly
2107: "hoo hoo hoo haa hoo hoo"
2108: Silence
@@jupiter8512 I wanna know what this means
dude, best comment ive ever seen.
2020 the end
I had my first panic attack watching this video cause I felt like my mind expanded with the video and I could actually sense the scale of everything.. I've matured since then so it doesn't bother me anymore, in fact this video is amazing, but I pride this as the beginning of my spiritual awakening
+James O'Donnell This is panic inducing indeed.
+James O'Donnell Panic is always the beginning of awakening..i know the feeling
That's beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Wow
James O'Donnell did u feel it physically?
One of the best educational films ever made, and one of the best art films ever made. Just splendid.
Yo how this more entertaining than a movie
movies are extremely entertaining. you need to fill your glass with movies and take a hearty gulp my friend. earthly delights await you. GULP GULP GULP *takes a swig of LIFE* - Stanly Rubik's
I remember watching this film as a kid. I never forgot it! So impressive still today!
I saw it in middle school, blew my mind and still does today
"Ten and forty zeros!"
Wait,how'd this guy in 1977 know my student loan balance?
KingDraw200404204925
Wee&wii
Werty
Curious indeed
Why would you rack up a debt that you can't discharge and you can never pay off? It would have been far better for you to have gotten a mcjob after high school. Granted I wasted 5 years in college too, but at least I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't dirt cheap at a state school.
One and forty zeros
This was part of an exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. I remember its impact even as a young child. Sobering dose of reality in the universe.
They showed us this video in college and it changed my life. Made in 1977!!
Thats a really good camera.. whats the zoom on it?
i believe is 10x
wow :o it must've taken a very strong throw to get it up to the 24th power of 10! with modern strength training, we could throw it up to the 69th and see *joe who*
10^41
*edit: sorry it would be 10^40
so much
Oh only 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000X zoom
Major respect for the camera man who flew all the way outside of our galactic supercluster and then into a single proton
😂❤
The book laying to the side of the sleeping man is "The Voices of Time" by J. G. Ballard, the title story of which is about entropy and inner space.
4:50 "This emptiness is normal; the richness of our own neighbourhood is the exception."
I remember this from when I was a kid and watched it at the National Air and Space Museum. I love it!
skweeds: There's an updated 1996 version narrated by Morgan Freeman called Cosmic Voyage. It's on RUclips. Not much is different in the new version except for showing the superclusters of galaxies.
That’s where I first saw it. Late 70’s in junior high.
I have one or two copies of this on 16 mm film and used to show it at techno parties at the beginning of the rave scene in Los Angeles
Remember watching this in school in the 1970's. Taking me back. Thanks for the memories...
This video humbled me. Thank you to whomever I needed this
Yep. It humbled me as a sixth grader. I am now 56. Will never forget that experience.
Back in the ‘70s, this was impressive technology. It still is effective for learning.
Indeed - I've recommended this so many times over the last 10 years.
It still is pretty impressive
The Eames' were such amazing people; a "married" couple, and Progressive innovators to boot! They each and together personified the definition of renaissance men/women! I'm afraid most people today -- tragically-- have no idea who they were, or, what they were so famously celebrated for?!
Came to this video as a recommendation of a Natural Law teacher, I'm glad I watched it. Thank you
Same. Mark Passio?
I saw this in High School, still gives me goosebumps today! I remember a large book of the movie, each page taking you further out and further in. It had such an impact on me, it blew my tiny brain!! So pleased to have found it again.
Finally, I've found this forgotten chunk of my memory.
wait hold on how many males are commenting here beside me?
I keep having to remind people on facebook that this is still infinitely better than the awful viral video that goes around these days, which attempts to show something similar but is worse in every aspect.
@ lol
I keep watching this every couple of years.....because it is absolutely, and simply, brilliant
Who else watch this for a school assignment in 2020
#Onlineschool
@@HurricaneJahya yeh
you
@@da4el334 well duh
Me I’m in a quarantine assignment right now
I'd like to see a 2015 version of this video. The changes in our observation technology sine 1977 must be at least 10 to the power of 10.
No kidding. I bet it would.
Currently it's at 10^27, according to wikipedia.
Yes. We need to use our technology and make this again.
Reimu Hakurei
Naw, we're just ^3 more in 43 years. I'd wait for the next two generations
Here is a basic one - really cool and you can control with your mouse.
www.scaleoftheuniverse.com/
The music is always my favourite part of watching this.
It is fantastic !!
sah dude
ehhhahaha Suh girl
ehhh dude
Elmer toking one hitter on Hammond B3 and a mini Moog...Thru an Echoplex... plex...
I have been as amateur astronomer from decades and worked at a planetarium for 4 years in college, best job I ever had. I was first shown this video during my time there and loved it. I still watch it this video from time-to-time and it always reminds me of those fun times in my life and reminds me of the vastness of space. Thanks for sharing your old classic with the world. Clear skies!
Been looking for this since 1977!!!
Welcome to the internet.
@@wildanS - Seems like almost every audio and video recording every made will wind up on RUclips at some point. Wonder how many server farms they will need when it reaches "critical mass."
Everyone: Going into space without a helmet is impossible
*The cameraman:*
He didn't have to hold his breath for THAT long. The impressive thing is that he also continued talking through it that whole time.
@@medexamtoolscom 🔺👁
Cameraman OP
i guess the opposite will do him nicely
A great book for anyone interested is "Sizing Up the Universe." And I used this film to show my grade 6 son why powers of 10 was important to understand. It was a "woah" moment.
Can you review it page by page?
Mind blowing. And here we are worrying about day-to-day mineal stuff when even if we disappeared from life, it would be like nothing happened
True.
would love a remake of this video, with up to date discoveries/findings included in the dislodge or even in the animation.
There's already a remake for the zoom out, "Zooming out from earth (4K)", and for the zoom in, "Voyage into the world of atoms"
This makes me feel SO SMALL and then SO BIG
That's what she's said
I still just feel small
Physics is drugs
makes me like 🐌
Turns out you are actually average sized.
How the heck do they make this?
IN 1977?!
It actually had to be earlier. My dad had a copy of it in 1972, I took it to my high school biology class and they played it.
kevin yang Computers bigger then your house.
Ann Hackler wow you're old no offense
There's an earlier version. It was a rough draft, if I recall.
We went to the moon in 1969. So making a movie wouldn't be so hard...
who knew that a picnic could take us all the way to the edge of space then into the hand of the sleeping dude?
Not at the edge but to the limit of our vision
@@blip666 well, true
Pretty good for 1977
'pretty'
extremely*
Star Wars came out in 1977, and that still holds up well, it wasn't as primitive as you might think back then, they even had computers!
are you crazy?this is more contemporary than ever.
Mind boggling.
Reminds me of Douglas Adams' classic understatement. "The Universe. Big isn't it!"
No wonder I keep losing my change.
The film 'A Matter of Life and Death' starring David Niven, made during the second world war, begins with the same words, then zooms in to Earth, down to a bomber aircraft on fire over the shore of Britain.
Later there is a zoom out from a court of law, to the vast arena surrounding it, out into space, revealing the arena is a galaxy in the night sky.
A film of H.G. Wells' story 'The Man Who Could Work Miracles' IIRC, also begins with those words.
It blew my mind. It gave me some perspective about what we are.
6:10 This also demonstrates the importance of moisturising.
As above, so below.
Holy shit that's a smart analogy. Our solar system could very well be an atom for another universe!
Huzufu its a universal law, kybalion.
lol, definitely:) I always figured that if all the billions of atoms, in our bodies can cooperate throughout our life times to stay in such close vicinity, ....ah, but, even we, who are free to think we can choose otherwise, do not, and end up,not far from home....humn....interesting indeed.
its a term used by satanists...
The term itself is neutral, it's just knowledge
Every Human has to watch this video #mindblown
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Bhuvaneswari Mahadevan Yes I do! How are you doing now?
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Esther Jose This is even better htwins.net/scale2/
That speed of light line (in 1 second) is so interesting. Kinda shows you how slow that is still compared to the size of the universe (or how big the universe is compared to it)
Not slow at all if u factor in time dilation its still infinitely fast
@@seandafny only from its own perspective, not an external viewpoint.
Censtudios- It also shows the box we are in unless we find a way around the "speed of light" speed limit. Most of the universe is way beyond our reach.
This never gets old! Thanks for posting Eames Office!
Wow. I remember seeing this over 40 years ago. It is still as mind blowing at age 54 as it was when I was 10. 😊👍
OHHH MY GODD I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN WHEN I WAS LIKE 10
Like 8 or 8 ?
Me too...
I want to inform people that even to this day(early 2022 roughly 45 years after its production) in my college Astronomy course, this film is still shown. I imagine and deeply hope that it will be shown forever.
One of my favorite videos.
It's hard to find a video this well done today. One of the best ever.
That's because way too many people believe in conspiracies and crazy stuff to take notice, even if it were produced.
Although that said, you can still find incredible videos like this, the world hasn't entirely lost it's grip on reality.
coursera brought me here
Thanks Dr. Robert Bilder
same case with me :-)
you are not alone :)
Mine too...Thanks Dr Robert Bilder
Hehe)
the fact that this lasts exactly 9 minutes instead of 10 triggers my OCD
The fact that the narrator says "Soldiers Field" rather than "Soldier Field" triggers mine.
The fact that neither of you actually has OCD triggers .. someone I'm sure. I actually don't care.
I watched this video when it shared first time at internet world. Right now something made me feel to watch it again. 2023 July…
Size and distance are so well displayed on this film.It also makes individual human problems appear to be such a minor part of the whole.
Such an incredible masterpiece that's 12 years ago!!! it is super ahead of it's time!!!
This was made in the 1970’s lol
@@Empika I was about to say
My head exploded.
Why the fuck did i create all this crap...
+Flareman229: I'm not sure whether watching it on drugs makes it better . . . or worse.
Seena Kakar And me bless them they did so! #yolo (not in my case though)
+Seena Kakar Jesus was not Christian, instead Jewish.
Rip
To this day the best and most informative scale of the universe film / video.
I remember seeing this as a kid in the early 90s or something. It has really stood the test of time. Public science at its best.
It was created in the 70s…u watched it nearly 20+ years later…and here i am watching it in 2022 and still mind blown….there is a newere version made by bbc and narrated by brian cox. That one just shows the space part and not the molecular level but still very interesting and well made with great resolution and attention to detail.
Everything is energy. It‘s so fascinating. I can’t cope with the vastness that is out there. Wow.
Nobody:
Me: vibing to the music in the beginning
overused ass joke, get creative
Nobody memes are dead
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAAAA AAHAHAHHHAHAHHAAHHAAAA that was so great. gotta love that whole nobody thing. just epic.
Watching this video in 2021, interestingly suggested by an online lecturer in Immunology. I'm definitely going to have my 6 and 9-yr kids watch this... I'm 100% certain they will be amazed!
Can't wait for the HD remake.
The one proof of this film, is.... with the power of the mind we can travel faster than the speed of light.
Ray Main mind blown...!
Ray Main not really your brain can only think so fast, it’s actually about .03 sec slower cause electricity travels through your brain mass. good try tho.
Also, the culmination and organization of the mind within the scientific community/industry to do so is a miraculous achievement itself.
IKR
@@datgio4951 You failed to understand what he meant. He's referring to the "distance" traveled within the video. With the help of computers and our MIND we can easily visualize massive distances without having to actually travel millions of light-years Nice try tho.
Kinda fun to think how our size, the size of humans, is roughly average when you take the size of the universe into account.
People tend to understand the universe is way more massive than us, even if we can't quite conceive it, but many seem to ignore the fact that we are to a proton what the universe is to us.
More like our capacity to understand and define the infinite universe that we're a part of extends the same distance in both directions
Caelan Register exactly
It's like we are in the Goldilocks zone of perfect size
maybe you are right, but maybe there are things much smaller than atoms, or things much bigger than the known universe... or maybe both at the same time so your statement would still be right lol
why are you thinking so hard?
I always show this when I'm substitute teaching and the teacher doesn't leave plans. Today it's my AP Calculus class and they loved it! Such a classic.
That exponential growth would actually make a fun calculus assignment. Could have them try to calculate the exact distance at each point in the video given the times listed
Knowing it was made 41 years ago, this still explodes my brain...
I'm leaving a comment for all the people who will come here because of CGP Grey
oh hello
Ohhh haiii Marrrrr-garita.
No, no, no, I watched this a long time ago, then CGP Grey, and then came back here to compare.
CGP wanted some views so he slapped the idea of folding paper ( as if it would make anything more interesting ) into a lazily compiled copy
im here because of my math teacher
I expected the comments to be flooded with - "CGP Grey's director's commentary sent me here"
Everything about this video is EPIC