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by SageRaven 4794 days ago
One of the first couple of episodes of Cosmos (maybe the first?) has a similar thing to convey the scale of time in our existence in the universe. Pretty cool.
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epsylon 4793 days ago
Yep that's in the first episode.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBA8DC67D52968201

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Shorel 4793 days ago
It's also well explained in the book 'Dragons of Eden' also by Sagan.
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