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The Universe in a Nutshell

🕑 Added 2020-09-22 17:59:00 +0000 UTC

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Stewart Lawrence III

Most phones support mirroring to a TV, or smart set top box. It shouldn’t be a challenge to either connect a cable or mirror wirelessly to a classroom display.

Ivan

downloaded on iPads of my daughters. works great

harry banks

Hi. Can this app be accessed on a device other than a phone? It would make a really cool educational resource for some of my classes. Like on the pc?

Matilda Luk

Beautiful app--congratulations!

Team Saunders

Supporting Kurzgesagt is easy when the product is this good. Really high quality as always. The care and attention shows - really nice work.

WhyNotHugo

I'd also appreciate using the metric system, or scientific notation. "390 billion kilometeres" is very hard to understand. - "billion" varies per region (10^9 in US/UK, but 10^12 for most other countries). I don't know which one you guys adhere to (it's 10^12 for Germany, right?) - A meter is MUCHO easier to think about that a kilometer, especially when one has to think about power of it. Like, my door is two meters tall, but I can't quite picture what a kilometer is. - Ultimately, "390 billion kilometers" completely lacks any tangible frame of reference. It's got two multipliers inside of it (10^12 * 10^3), and having just one would likely make more sense. I do admit it's still very hard to present information -- so the zooming in/out does help! Great idea!

WhyNotHugo

Great app! I'm loving it. There's just one thing that's supper annoying: swiping seems to be in the counter-intuitive direction. At least it is if you're right handed. I push things towards the center (right-to-left), yet they move away from the center (left-to-right). So far, every time I've paused I've then resume in the wrong direction because of this. (just compare it to how you'd swipe anything that you move around in any app). If you're left handed it makes sense though; since pushing things towards the center does move them in that direction.

Dmitry Mandriko

An amazing app! Gives you an intellectual vertigo of sorts when you think about the difference in scale... Also, SHOULD WE POST ABOUT SPELLING AND OTHER MISTAKES HERE?

Dmitry Mandriko

Totally agree! And ready to help with the Russian one. 🙂

tuxayo

Can there be a campaign goal where the app would be published for free? The current goal is at 100% so there should be no reason to have non-open knowledge (also as in libre/open source) if there aren't new goals that aren't yet met.

Kevin Zhang

Is it free for patreon?

Oliver Alex

bought it!

Neutrinos dont have a size! Proof me wrong :(

Stephan

Gekauft 😘

Poker Chen

This is lovely! I can now learn at a glance that, e.g. the physical size of a fully utilised Phobos colony will be comparable to metropolian Marseille (cultural melting pot of southern France). So I have a couple of points on feedback, the first is functionality and the second is content. 1. Will you consider a search-bar in the menu? It would then be easier to look up the size of, say, an average "bacteria". 2. I'm a structural biologist (protein), so from that bias I think there are an endless number of very cool things you can add between 10^-9 m and 10^4 m. Here is a short-list of things: 0.436 square km: Pando, the colony of one quaking aspen that is one of the largest single organisms we currently know about. Aspens trees can grow by sprouting new trunks from root systems (like grass), and this is how one such single tree becomes an entire grove. 8.9 square km: On the same topic of "largest known organism", individual fungi have a similar root-spreading ability, and and up supporting entire forests. The Wikipedia value is almost certainly not the largest out there. 1 micrometer: Titin, the longest individual human protein, is a long beads-on-a-chain things that provide a flexible structural supports between muscle fibers. ...I think it's heavier than the smallest virus on the list. 120 nanometers: (Vertebrate) Nuclear-pore complex, the security gates between the Cellular City and the Library of Knowledge at its center. To exit or enter the nucleus, all products bigger than a certain size must be chaperoned by dedicated protein chauffeurs. 30 nanometers: Proteasome, the recycling module for many proteins used by ~every eukaryotic cell. On the plus side, it also looks like a rubbish bin with lids on both ends! Proteins tagged for recycling go in, building materials come out. 7 nanometers: Hemoglobin, carrier of oxygen and carbon dioxide. If the red-blood cell is the size of a cargo ship oir cruise liner, imagine it half-full of washing-machine sized drums of hemoglobin. Each drum contains only four oxygen molecules the size of your thumb. ...and that concludes a brief tour of the untold universe of biology.

Young Joon

Finally, a Kurzgesagt app! This is so fun and well, I just love it!

proksimov prksimovich

Thanks for the great app, it is super awesome, but what about translations to other languages? Is it planned? There are some people (me including) who can help with Russian translation for example)

Darya Krainia

Like your app! It is super great!

Guy Moreillon

Love the app! Buttery smooth animation on my iPad2 mini. And yes, as a mobile developer myself, I can imagine the challenge it must have been. Keep them coming!

HazySkies

Looks so great but immediately crashes on my old iPhone 5s (iOS 12.4.8).

Jon Wood

This is incredible! WBW and Kurzgesagt come together on a project?! My Instant Gratification Monkey is marking the date 12,020-9-22 on my calendar 🤓😬

Daniel Wild

Utterly amazing! The graphics, the infos, the sounds, the SCALE!

Antoine Amarilli

Same here. This looks great, but I do not have access to the Google Play Store so I cannot get the app. Sharing the APK with patrons would be nice.

Brittany B.

Wow this is so exciting!!

Kendra Reed

It's beautiful and mindblowing!

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Thanks. Updated the link!

Rens Oliemans

My two favourite creators!! 😊😊

Kirk Lane

Please do more of these, I have too much Google Play credit from doing their surveys, and not enough things worth spending it on. Also, I'm getting some popping in the audio when playing via the speakers on my Galaxy S9+, sounds like playing some old records.