Jacob Burton 6/3/17 Desma 9 Blog 9 Space + Art This week I was able to explore through these lectures the final frontier, space. In the first video, it described the powers of 10 and the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero. It has always been extremely fascinating to me. I can't even imagine the size and the distance differences between different planets, stars, solar systems, and other space objects. It just goes to show how small we really are in the universe. This video also described how as the powers of 10 increase the farther upward into space we travel. In the first lecture, she described how ancient astronomers named the planets based on greek gods. In the second lecture, she described how contemporary space development started after World War II after the first atomic bomb was tested at a site called Trinity. After this test, and after we dropped two Nucl
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