Awesome Scale

Ant-Man showed us what it might be like if humans could shrink to a subatomic size. That doesn’t make Epic Spaceman’s latest video any less fascinating. This amazing educational video shows our astronaut host shrinking to 1/10th of his size every 21 seconds. Along the way, he stands with a grain of sand, a tardigrade, a blood cell, and even tinier things.

After building a scale model of the Solar System, filmmakers Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet headed to the Mojave desert to create a physical model that illustrates time over 13.8 billion years. They dotted the dry lakebed with lights and combined those with video footage to show the passage of time. Download a printable version of their time scale here.

This unique scale, cable and companion app let you precisely dole out cocktails without the need to measure with a shot glass. And no, you don’t have to make foofy rainbow-colored drinks with it. Works with both iOS and Android devices.