Decaflon Thread: Let's take a step back, or Ten

Let's take a step back, or Ten

hthth — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:34:42

And yeah, I revitalized this Note because it's mandatory Powers of Ten time now! Everybody viddy well, viddy well.

Let's take a step back, or Ten

hthth — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:29:06

Why did we breed a generation of hopeless morons? School is for losers, reading is stupid, and being smart is NOT COOL. WOW there's a way to get ahead in life!

My brother recently described high-school [age≈13-16] school as it was 30 years ago. It's unbelievable (I'm much younger than he is). Back then it was cool to participate in a formal student organization (part of the system). The behaviorally good- & smart students were the coolest.

I don't know about you, but I've only witnessed a captain of a football team be cool and admired in American films. My reality in school was unfortunately the beginning of a reversal; I'm not sure how it is now, I think it has calmed a bit. I'm hoping it's part of a wave that oscillates to anti-social behavior after a period of high discipline (middle ages to ... 1980?); and eventually reaches an equilibrium.

Being smart is cool. The smart ones know it.
....But unfortunately their opinion isn't considered cool.

Let's take a step back, or Ten

RightOn — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:41:58

I got in a fight with my 11 year old sister-in-law last night when she was yelling at the TV hoping school was closed.

Why did we breed a generation of hopeless morons? School is for losers, reading is stupid, and being smart is NOT COOL. WOW there's a way to get ahead in life!

Let's take a step back, or Ten

hthth — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:38:56

Yeah, it's damn good. Gotta love the size of the Universe ;)
Thanks for the points!

Let's take a step back, or Ten

Nils — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:37:36

Same here.

Someone asked me once isn't the sun a planet?

These vids would be mandatory and weekly if I was in charge!

Let's take a step back, or Ten

JoeLencioni — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:55:56

Sweet video. You get points.

Let's take a step back, or Ten

hthth — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:45:02

Not my first Note on a Powers of Ten type video; zooming from subatomic levels to the edges of galaxies. They'd be a mandatory, bimonthly watch if I was in charge.

This one is by Charles and Ray Eames. They died in '78 and '88, respectively, and thus I suspect this is the clip that introduced such 'epic zooming' to visualize relative sizes and distances.