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So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

- From Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

In 1977 Charles and Ray Eames created a documentary called the Powers of 10 which gave viewers a mind-changing perspective on just how small we are in comparison to our universe. In the spirit of this film, I thought I would take you all on a quick photographic journey of Second Life, starting with the smallest objects possible and ending with a view of everything, all that there is. I will be adjusting scale for aesthetics rather than using an exponential scale, which is particularly handy since Second Life is not QUITE as large as the real-world universe. But I think you will be surprised to see just how big it is.

So let the journey begin!

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