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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: Jome on September 12, 2006, 06:51:53 PM
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http://www.deepskyfrontier.com/
This webpage has the surface of the earth x 17.000.000.000
Scrolling down to the bottom of the page by pressing your down button, or pressing the "scroll down" button on the right side with your mouse, will take you 500.000 years.
The page contains 8.100.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 pixels, and contains some hidden messages for those with extremely much spare time.
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A: This page is 9 quadrillion pixels wide by
9 quadrillion pixels tall. Thus it contains a large number of pixels:
8,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
otherwise known as 8.1 nonillion. In scientific notation,
that's 8.1x10^30, hereafter shown in the form 8.1e30.
This means that the repeating background image has 5.4
stars on it-- about as many as there would be if our
universe was multiplied to a million times it's current observable size.
Futhermore, at 77 pixels to the inch, this
page takes up 3.4e18 square miles and is 1.844 billion miles on a side--
an area roughly equivalent to a section of the plane of our Solar System with
the sun at the center and the orbit of Saturn on the outside edge (a square
22 AU on a side). That's about 17 billion times the surface area of the Earth.
Test it for yourself. Using the arrow keys to scroll,
see if you can move the scroll button even one pixel. On second thought, don't--
especially if you're the doggedly persistent type. To do so will take about
seven times longer than
Here's another way to imagine the size of this webpage.
Let us exaggerate outrageously and say that a trillion
books might have been written during the history of the world (a figure more
in line with all <i>reading</i> that has ever been done), and that each of
those trillion books has an extremely generous allotment of 10,000 pages.
Let us then say that each of those pages has an average size of about one
square foot. That would mean that this webpage would have ten trillion times
the space necessary to fit it all in.</font></p>
<font face="Tahoma"> If you were to do a random search of this webpage at a
rate of ten pageviews per second, it would take you about 31,000 years-- on
average-- before you would find even a <i>single</i> page of even <i>one</i>
of those books. </font>
And here's another way to look
at it. </font></p>
The World Wide Web is currently the biggest part of the
internet-- and it is <i>huge</i>.</font>
<p><font face="Tahoma">Google currently knows of over 8 billion webpages-- and
there are certainly a great many pages that Google does not know about. There
are an unknowable number that have come and gone and will never be seen again.
</font> </p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">Let us imagine that there have been a total of a twenty
billion webpages each year since 1990-- a gross overestimation (at least in
regard to the early days). </font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">Let us then imagine that each of those webpages was at
least 25,000 pixels long and 1,000 pixels wide-- equivalent to about twenty-five
pages of writing. </font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">Given these figures, this one page would have enough
raw area to house a quadrillion years worth of the World Wide Web. </font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">If you were to search randomly at a rate of ten pageviews
per second, it would take you 3 million years-- on average-- to find even
just <i>one</i> of those twenty billion pages.
If you'd like, you can support this page with a very
small donation (between 89 cents and a $2.33 would be shiny). Include a
short comment as your "shipping address"-- anything-- and I'll place it in
the vastness. You can also support this by rating with a thumb-up on StumbleUpon
and by telling your friends.
Would you like to visit the exact center
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(Only works properly with Mozilla Firefox)
your natural lifespan. This method causes you to "move"
across the plane of this page at the equivalent
of a toddler's walking pace-- around 0.5 mph. At this rate, it would take
you half a million years to cross from one end to the other. </font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">As you may know, it is enormously quicker to use the
mouse and click on the empty part of the scroll bar and then hold down the
mouse button. Using this method, you would be able to cross in about 100 minutes.
Doing so causes you to move at about Warp 1.5-- a virtual velocity of over
1.5 times the speed of light (ignoring relativistic effects). If you try it,
you'll see that the background starfield appears to be going by at no more
than ten miles an hour. In actuality, the glimpses you are seeing of the starfield
are tens of thousands of miles apart. Enormous expanses are being skipped
over completely. </font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">Of course, it is far quicker to use the mouse to grab
the scroll button and slide it over. Not as quick as using this link, however:
<a href="#howbig04">To the Corner.</a></font></p>
Click herefor another angle
on how big this page is.
Note: While this page is very, very large when
viewed using Internet Explorer and others, you need Mozilla Firefox to view
it properly. Firefox is the open-source phoenix of once-defeated Netscape.
It offers improved speed, security, and simplicity. It's tabs feature alone
makes it worth switching. It's <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">free.</a></font></p>
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Jesus Christ! :o
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Note: While this page is very, very large when viewed using Internet Explorer and others, you need Mozilla Firefox to view it properly. Firefox is the open-source phoenix of once-defeated Netscape. It offers improved speed, security, and simplicity. It's tabs feature alone makes it worth switching. It's free.
^^LOL...Only Jome would post something like this.
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What the fuck was that. All I saw was either dots, or stars.
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im gonna print this mothafuckin shit homie
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If you a scared motherfucker go to church.
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"This page is a waste of space"
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Note: While this page is very, very large when viewed using Internet Explorer and others, you need Mozilla Firefox to view it properly. Firefox is the open-source phoenix of once-defeated Netscape. It offers improved speed, security, and simplicity. It's tabs feature alone makes it worth switching. It's free.
^^LOL...Only Jome would post something like this.
LOL, didn't even see that before now, that's dope. ;D
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"For eons people have gazed into the stars and have seen their deepest desires" --Lisa Simpson
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"This page is a waste of space"
nah, it's virtual
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If you a scared motherfucker go to church.
LOL!
i dont know why, but that was funny as hell. +1