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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 17, 2012 - 02:13am PT
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And Off-Topic, if you can believe that. Still less than a marathon, either way.
Check this website out for a quick sense of proportion. You can scroll around from the very small, to the very large. Pretty wild to contemplate.
http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white
Click on objects for interesting factoids, and you can kill the music by clicking the note in the top right.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Feb 17, 2012 - 03:56am PT
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Wow!!!
Thanks for sharing this link. Very cool website. I'm linking it!!
Reminds me of the old classic "The Powers of Ten" film.
Very fun to zoom in and out. Really cool!
The music is OK even :-))
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miwuksurfer
Social climber
Mi-Wuk
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Feb 17, 2012 - 11:15am PT
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I thought this was about the TM climbs...
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2012 - 09:07pm PT
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Bait-and-switch climbing thread title and a really cool link, I would have thought this would get a little a traffic. Maybe nobody's seen it...BUMP.
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bparry
Trad climber
New Haven, CT
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Feb 17, 2012 - 09:12pm PT
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I was expecting to see a proposed equivalent cumulative difficulty of those three rigs.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2012 - 09:42pm PT
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Well, I'm sure there are a good number of folks that have humped it up Everest that could never drag their carcass up Phobos or Deimos, at least not without jumars, but that's not the point. Like I said, it's a bit of a bait-and-switch. Sorta. Here's a tighter screenshot from that webpage, and as you can clearly see, they stuck all three right together. The red arrow is pointing out Half Dome.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Feb 17, 2012 - 11:33pm PT
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Bump for a nice tool to show relative size from the very small to the very big.
Cool.
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Manjusri
climber
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Feb 18, 2012 - 01:07am PT
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That second pitch of Phobos seemed like it went on forever, but I didn't think it was that big!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Feb 18, 2012 - 01:18am PT
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THAT is freekin' awesome!!
I didn't get it at first til I started playing with the tools.
I just blew my 14 year old daughters mind with it!!
Half Dome is really really teeny compared to the Tarantula Nebula!
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