How Small Am I?

In my favourite series of books, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox is thrown into the Total Perspective Vortex; a machine created with the sole purposes of destroying your mind simply by showing you just how utterly insignificant you are.

Here's my attempt to do the same to you by showing you a video I've found that compares the sizes of various objects that exist within our universe, including our very own planet Earth:

Once you've uncurled from the inevitable foetal position that thinking about such things promotes (well, it does in me), you might like to check out a few of the other videos that I've posted.