Google’s Interactive Starmap Will Eat Your Day Whole

[blixel]

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"Want to wave goodbye to any chance of productivity for the rest of the day? Then step right up to 100,000 Stars, an interactive starmap from those mad geniuses at Google’s Creative Lab team. The map allows you to click, scroll, and otherwise explore a (mostly) accurate representation of our cosmic “neck of the woods.” It’s gorgeous, it’s fascinating, and it will absolutely force you to cancel any meetings you had planned for the rest of the day."

EDIT: Requires the Chrome browser

 

[statickid]

cool! not as much freedom as celestia, but i like the style!

 

[Ripley]

...Want to wave goodbye to any chance of productivity for the rest of the day?...

While my FireFox was endlessly waiting for the "optics to focus", I thought the quoted sentence was perfectly correct. Then I said "Hey, the app is from Google, let me check what browser it was made for"...

"One proviso, though: you’ll need to have the Chrome browser to use the map"

:lol:

 

[Screamer7]

It is OK....but I like Space Engine more than this.

 

[Izack]

"One proviso, though: you’ll need to have the Chrome browser to use the map"

:lol: Found out exactly the same way.

 

[dumbo2007]

Apparently Chrome has better optics than Firefox.