This introductory scene from the 1997 film adaptation of Carl Sagan's Contact blew my mind when I first saw it in the theatre and I still enjoy watching videos of this nature. It really puts things in perspective and provides you with a visual sense of the epic scale of the cosmos in such a way that numbers and language simply fail to convey. The astral bodies depicted have several minute inaccuracies, but still give the viewer a great understanding of just how small the ol'pale blue dot really is.The objects, in the order they appear include: Earth Mars The Asteroid Belt (Much sparser than depicted, asteroids larger than 1 metre are typically 2km apart. Still, avoid this bad boy while cruisin the solar system!) Ganymede , followed by Jupiter and her many other moons. (The famous 'Red Eye' actually spins imperceptibly slow and in the opposite direction!) Saturn Uranus The Oort Cloud (The "halo" of leftover debris from the Solar Systems creation) Alpha Centauri (A binary or double star system and the third brightest star in the night sky.) The Pillars of Creation (Erroneously portrayed from an Earth based point of view and should instead be shown from the other side and flipped left to right! Still an impressive effect.) The Eagle Nebulae (Again, opposite side.) The Milky Way The Andromeda Galaxy (with whom we are slated on a collision course, due in roughly 4 billion years.) After that I have no idea!? Canis Major Dwarf Cluster Maybe?? Any thoughts? ...AND THEN BAM, we run directly into a child's eyeball! Thus ending our 92 billion light year journey as an insignificant eye floaty. Cheers and Happy Easter! (Also, take a look at the somewhat addictive: http://ift.tt/sfqXo0 ) Text - PaleSalope Video - Youtube



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Zoom Out Scene from the film 'Contact'

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