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How Big Is A Minecraft World?

Everyone who's played Minecraft know that the game's randomly generated worlds are big. But how big? This amazing interactive project by Cary and Michael Huang puts a Minecraft world, and many other things in perspective. This is probably going to be the coolest thing you see all day.

Simply titled The Scale of the Universe 2, this interactive flash project allows you zoom in and out to compare the relative size of objects in the universe. Zoom out just past Earth and you'll find a Minecraft world, which comes out to 64,000 kilometers, way beyond Earth's 12,700 kilometers.

The scale, which starts with the size of the average human (1.7 meters), also decreases, all the way down to the size of Quantum Foam, which is .00000000001 yoctometers. Poor Quantum Foam never gets any respect!

[source: HTwins.net]

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  • Sh it...
  • This thing is pretty cool... bookmarked.

  • Whoa; big.
  • If the world is that large, what tricks do they use to compute all of that? Basically, how is it possible for an average pc or console to have an active world that large? Or when you leave a designated area of the game, does that area just stop being active? I'm just asking because I don't have that kind of computer knowledge, like I'm sure some of you do.
  • Shiny! There's something about the very end of the slider that's both depressing and yet unbelievably hopeful and inspiring.
  • I wonder how long it take to traverse this mass stretch of awesomeness.
  • Whoa.. That's gigantic. Pretty dang huge.
  • Cooooooooooool

  • I saw this a couple of days ago...
  • wanna know what's bigger? The Great Attractor. It's on the website thing!

  • Makes you think about how much is actually explored.

  • cool. i played the (game?) earlier this week. cool to know that Minecraft is bigger than Neptune!
  • What? Wait. I haven't played minecraft, I'm ignorant, so help me out here. Are they trying to say that each time a map is generated for minecraft, it's bigger than neptune? It's not possible. They couldn't even generate a map that has space bigger than earth. So what is this metric showing? Is it adding up the number of user-created maps and saying that there are enough unique maps out there to equal bigger than neptune? Okay, maybe. This story is extremely unclear and that's too bad because the topic is very interesting.
  • I'm slightly disappointed that the Death Star doesn't seem to be included in this.
  • won't work on my mac
  • Link doesn't work for me. Sad face.
  • That's pretty awesome! :D

  • Wow, I gotta tell my friends!
  • Holy...

  • Can it get any bigger?
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