Coffee Beans and Carbon Atoms

[jamesq]

A sliding scale showing you everything from a coffee bean (at actual size) down to a carbon atom.

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

Now if they had the slider go the other way up to the universe, that would be extra cool.

Comments

[oblivions.livejournal.com]

xkcd sort of touched on that:

http://xkcd.com/482/

[petranef.livejournal.com]

Kewl. Woulda helped in microbiology!

[jamesq]

I found it interesting that, the Amoeba Proteus, Paramecium and Human egg cell should all be (barely) visible to the human eye.

[petranef.livejournal.com]

And look how small that baker's yeast is? That's wacky!

[danceintheabyss.livejournal.com]

thats freakin awesome

[snooness2]

Coool!