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Intragalactic Travel: A 4-Minute Tour of the Known Universe [Video]
by Mike Richard
For all the nay-sayers who’d like to rain on your long-term travel parade with questions like, “Why would you want to be away from home for [fill in long period of time here]?”, there’s this brief tour of the known universe. If this doesn’t spark the spirit of exploration in you, nothing will.
And you thought Earth was big. I’d say “humbling” accurately describes this piece.
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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February 15th, 2009
thanks for that i’m trying to find a screen saver that gives a similar sort of tour around the known universe so you can really loose yourself in it.