The artist formerly known as Strider...

The Lord of the Rings, slightly condensed.

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Years ago, I saw something like this in Scientific American and found it fascinating. They showed the Earth from 100 miles out, then 1,000 miles out, and so on, in geometrical progression, until the galaxies were specs.

This goes the other direction, right down to the microcosm, making me think of Blaise Pascal. I am a little skeptical of their visual depiction of a quark, but what can they do? At least it puts things in perspective.

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Now, this is really interesting. (I got it from Warren Ellis.)

I knew that Anglo-Saxons soon outnumbered the Briton population of England, but I didn't know how it happened. And I'm not sure what the article implies, but it's interesting; not just for the information, but for the use of computer simulation to study historical situations.