Pretty darn cool astronomy video

Astronomy Picture of the Day: "Explanation: What would it look like to travel across the known universe? To help humanity visualize this, the American Museum of Natural History has produced a modern movie featuring many visual highlights of such a trip. The video starts in Earth's Himalayan Mountains and then dramatically zooms out, showing the orbits of Earth's satellites, the Sun, the Solar System, the extent of humanities first radio signals, the Milky Way Galaxy, galaxies nearby, distant galaxies, and quasars."

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It's a slick production. What really struck me is the depiction of the very short distance (in relation to the rest of the galaxy) that our radio waves have traveled over the past 100 years or so. It's no wonder no one knows we're here! Although, maybe that's just as well. It's a dangerous galaxy out there.