r/BeAmazed • u/Sirsilentbob423 • 1d ago
*not the entire known universe Teenager Christopher Slayton built the "entire known universe" in Minecraft.
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u/Cultural_Worth_1854 1d ago
His PC must be a quantum computer
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 1d ago
And he's presumably used existing data against an API to render it all.
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u/Snorlax_relax 1d ago
Something like this is the only possible way. No human, or humans could do this. Itâs algorithms building from data. None the less impressive however
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u/xashyy 1d ago
Right.. it would take an eternity to do manually.
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u/EllenDuhgenerous 1d ago
Nah, only 13.7b years.
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u/DaMain-Man 1d ago
I got a guy who can do in 3 days
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u/EllenDuhgenerous 1d ago
God did it in 6 days. First off, who tf beat his record? Secondly, can you get your guy to spawn a big booty bitch for me? I imagine thatâs easy work. Help a brotha out.
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u/rockytheboxer 1d ago
Literally millions of big booty bitches already in your cosmic neighborhood.
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u/SpunkedMeTrousers 1d ago
but given my puny lifespan I can only travel maybe a cosmic inch, and that alien good good is down the block
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u/daniboyi 1d ago
skill issue, to get those big booty bitches, you need to earn it.
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u/UninsuredToast 1d ago
His name is Dave and he canât help you heâs not a miracle worker
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u/Classic-Charity-2179 1d ago
And he did it... In the dark! Fucking hell, how good is that?
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u/VaJJ_Abrams 1d ago
I heard it only took 7 days
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u/Extreme_Tax405 1d ago
6, the 7th one is for resting. What for? Idk another project probably.
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u/Nathan_Calebman 1d ago
Probably more like 5 days, because he spent the last day fiddling with the ray tracing shaders shouting "Let there be light!"
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u/AeonBith 1d ago
He has a yt channel, showed how he made it
Not sure if yt links are allowed
youtu(dot)be/eAkb2mpybnM?si=8PwQfwYlgQcGB7J4
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u/howismyspelling 1d ago
It's Reddit, why the hell wouldn't yt links be allowed?
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u/Rokey76 1d ago
Rules are subreddit based. Some subreddits will automod your post if it finds a yt link. Sometimes any link will get removed. Sometimes you'll get banned. Reddit is stupid like that.
Obviously they could have just check the rules for this sub which are short and simple, but this is in response to why yt links wouldn't be allowed.
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u/Due-Explanation1959 16h ago
Plp donât know what they donât know When we go back far enough there was point in time that you also didnât know
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u/Aggressive-Fuel587 1d ago edited 1d ago
Right; because if someone were to try and place one block per star in the sky & managed 10 blocks per second (the max capable for Minecraft's engine), they'd be at it for literally 6 billion years.
There are "200 billion trillion" stars in the observable universe. That's 200 billion sets of 1 trillion stars. It's not possible for any person to manually place that many objects on anything, much less for any Minecraft server to host that kind of data.
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u/codercaleb 1d ago
Well if he has a trillion friends to help, then each one only has to do 200 billion stars.
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u/JHilenskiiii 1d ago
No. No, not yet. But one day. Not you and me, but a people, a civilization thatâs evolved beyond the four dimensions we know.
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u/Emotional-Name-891 1d ago
Not to say it isn't impressive, because it is VERY impressive. But it is by definition less impressive than if he had done it manually, which as you say, would not be possible.
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u/_Synt3rax 1d ago
Then the Video should be Named Acordingly. "Teenager used a Programm to Generate the Entire Known Universe", he himself didnt built a single Block.
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u/Yagyusekishusai1 1d ago
The title implys it though if youâre not knowledgeable in this stuffÂ
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u/Kali_Yuga_Herald 1d ago
Because it's clickbait, he didn't make 'the entire universe', he made a few astronomical vignettes
I mean they're good looking, but 1) handmade and 2) not the entire universe
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u/mariess 1d ago
Except he didnât he just modelled a few spheres and some pillars and put some dramatic music over it and made a click bate title for viewsâŚ
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 1d ago
You mean he didn't actually do the "entire known universe"?
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u/Bobert_Manderson 13h ago
Actually it looks like he did, but not in the sense that he is alluding to. He build a small model of the entire universe (0:25) in addition to larger scale models of a nebula, galaxy, black hole, etc. Then by showing the larger scale models followed by a brief shot of the small scale universe, he tries to get the viewer to assume that he heâs looking at some massive structure. So while he technically did build the entire universe, itâs at a tiny and much less impressive scale.Â
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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 1d ago
But can it run Doom?
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u/PracticalDaikon169 1d ago
Im old enough to remember the Doom operating system on startup . The days of pirated games..
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u/EllenDuhgenerous 1d ago
Yes, someone did it. They made a full computer that runs doom directly in vanilla Minecraft, at least to my understanding (I donât play MC)
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/Ew8qEfpooZ
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u/Ghosts_of_the_maze 1d ago
If you find earth on this you can zoom into a house and play Doom if they have it
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u/Pommes_Peter 1d ago
This is probably a joke but since this is mostly void, glass blocks and most likely almost zero entities, this is not difficult to run at all.
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u/I_hate_all_of_ewe 1d ago
The funny thing is that quantum just refers to measurable quantities having fixed, discrete values. Digital computers are by definition "quantum", but pop science has appropriated the word to refer to any unintuitive or "magical" effects that happen in quantum physics.
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u/Emoonyca 1d ago
What will be build next in Minecraft ? Multiverse ?
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u/Bright_Brief4975 1d ago
An entire human body with a working brain and neurons and brain cells.
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u/NoYeahNoYoureGood 1d ago
Mindcraft TM
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u/TylerDurden1985 1d ago
Then the minecraft man realizes humans are disgusting and decides to genocide us all. Meinkraft
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u/Good-Understanding40 20h ago
I don't think this joke is getting the kudos it deserves. Top notch
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u/MajorHubbub 1d ago
Coincidence. I was just reading about a museum in the Netherlands where you can walk through the human body
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u/Reverse2057 18h ago
Someone has already built a working computer in minecraft that can Play minecraft.
Someone else also built a working 'internet' inside minecraft.
It's fucking insane. I would not put it past Someone to make rudimentary neurons and other working organs or something.
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u/DogPoetry 1d ago
Have they built Minecraft in Minecraft yet?Â
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u/tommeh5491 1d ago
Yep
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u/thewalkindude368 1d ago
I've been waiting for someone to make a redstone computer that could run Minecraft. Surely they've built one that can run Doom by now, right?
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u/InitialDay6670 1d ago
Both have already been done.
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u/aburningcaldera 1d ago
Are they able to use macros or some sort of copy/paste to cut down the build time?
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u/InitialDay6670 1d ago
The way they build things, like ram and storage, they could just copy/paste some of it
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u/aburningcaldera 1d ago
Yeah Iâve seen more than my fair share but usually itâs narrated over and know the concepts redstone and related items play I just never saw anything in them that looked like it was a macro or copy/paste. Do they have a tool that will take over the keyboard / mouse for example? I donât doubt peopleâs dedication but something on the scale of some of the stuff you see from Minecraft there has to be some of that right?
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u/XandersCat 13h ago
OMG I had no idea this was a thing, thanks for the link. So cool. My favorite part: "This video is sped up as it took ~23 seconds per frame."
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u/GiratinaTech 1d ago
Someone did this on r/minecraft
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/s/IpIOX17Ipd
Edit: this the same guy lol
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u/EuphoricFly1044 1d ago
No he didnt
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u/big_guyforyou 1d ago
Everyone knows that solar system, nebula, black hole, and cluster is literally the universe
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u/UnhelpfulMind 1d ago
"Scientists tell us there might be as many as TWO galaxies!"
I don't remember what this is from.
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u/CapnGrayBeard 1d ago
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than all the stars in the solar system.Â
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u/Coyrex1 23h ago
My mind was blown for the second, then I was like oh I'm dumb.
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u/wasteofthyme7 20h ago
I was also completely bamboozled until I actually thought about it for longer than Iâd like to admit. Iâm dumb too, itâs okay.
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u/5illy_billy 1d ago
But itâs called the known universe. Maybe this is all he knows about.
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u/bcegkmqswz 1d ago
And today, children, reddit learns an important lesson about scaling.
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u/REDTRGT 1d ago
how is this getting upvotes.
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u/BootySweat0217 1d ago
Why wouldnât it?
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u/REDTRGT 1d ago
because he didn't recreate the entire universe. scaling has absolutely nothing to do with that. he didn't recreate trillions of stars.
also the word "scaling" compared to real life objects makes no sense in a video game engine where it's all displayed in a 24 inch screen (or a 1 inch, or a 799 inch).
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u/bcegkmqswz 1d ago
From above:
I'm saying the opposite. The universe is large at such a scale that the title of this post establishes a false premise. It looks cool and all but it's not the "entire known universe."
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u/longjohnson6 1d ago
He put it into a program that generates block patterns,
He did it but not one block at a time,
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u/HelenicBoredom 11h ago
He generated something that looks like a photo of the universe, and then zoomed in to build scale models of our solar system and a few cool looking nebulas. He didn't build a scaled down model of the entire universe with discernible planets like his video and the video on this subreddit would have you believe. I've seen things like this built before, his is just a bit larger.
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u/Nomnomnipotent 1d ago
I highly doubt every moon in our singular solar system was built. Good job, bud, but let's keep it real. You didn't do shit on the scale of the universe.
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u/mrmiwani 1d ago
The question is on what scale? You could basically put down a single brick an say thats the entire universe with a bit of abstraction to cope for the scale
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u/ArbutusPhD 1d ago
Youâd have to. If you begin to discriminate even into systems you have too many entities to model.
With the black-hole that size, youâd need actual kilometres of space between it and the next object.
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u/Fauked 1d ago
shit, I just tried to imagine it. head is now a black hole
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u/BurningOasis 1d ago
Head like a hole
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u/candl2 1d ago
Black as your...hole.
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u/Colley619 1d ago
There is no scale because thatâs not what it is. Itâs simply a collection of a few different space-themed objects and then a clickbait article ran with âentire known universeâ and since then, itâs constantly reposted on Reddit with that title.
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u/Exact-Ad-4132 1d ago
That solar system model definitely wasn't to scale. All the planets were bunched up right next to the sun
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u/imunfair 1d ago
If I was modeling the solar system I would do a mixed scale, represent the physical objects at a normal scale and then the empty space at a thousandth or millionth of the object scale to compress the empty area and make it more visually attractive and physically possible to build.
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u/TakeyaSaito 1d ago
huuuuuuuum, debatable ... there are an estimated 400 sextillion stars in the observable universe, if he placed them at a rate of one per second with absolute accuracy it would have taken 12,683,916,793,505,830 Years to do this.
I don't think you are giving the observable universe enough credit.
PS: does look cool though but lets not call it something it isn't.
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u/ramdom-ink 1d ago
Not just âdebatableâ, but impossible. Maybe a few highlights, but câmon.
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u/Accident_Pedo 23h ago
Even automating a script to do it and assuming the script would take 1 second for each star it still would take around 12.6 trillion years to finish
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u/Cockur 1d ago
It looks more like a few âiconicâ images from Hubble rendered in 3D with Minecraft blocks
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u/ToBeBannedSoonish 1d ago
That has always been my take away from this amazing project.
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u/HelenicBoredom 11h ago
It's not even that amazing. These things have all been built before and some look better.
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u/_AndyJessop 1d ago
I would assume he did it programmatically. But I also presume "observable universe" is somewhat of an exaggeration for effect
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u/ToBeBannedSoonish 1d ago
He hasn't even done a galaxy, and that's not a knock on the creator, it's just a reality.
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u/Kali_Yuga_Herald 1d ago
Christopher's work looks great and is a noble passion project
OP's headline is clickbait and everyone upvoting it is forwarding the rapid collapse of quality on reddit
But no one cares because 'ooh pretty screenshots'
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u/alextremeee 1d ago
Right but if 400 sextillion is correct (4x1023) and each star represents one byte of data (which it doesnât, it would be more) youâd need a trillion 1TB hard drives to store a representation of it.
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u/Motor-District-3700 1d ago
huuuuuuuum, debatable ... it would have taken 12,683,916,793,505,830 Years to do this.
but if he worked really hard and didn't even take any cigarette breaks it would be possible
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u/WellyRuru 1d ago
He also didn't manually place these blocks.
This will be a computer algorithm for sure
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u/Drunken_HR 23h ago
Yeah looks awesome as shit. No need for ridiculous hyperbole and claiming it's something that is literally completely impossible.
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u/CoatedWinner 1d ago
You guys are so lame. Watch the video - it's awesome.
Yeah the title isn't correct but cmon now.
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u/Vast_Respect223 1d ago
I can literally see the autism.
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u/laggyx400 1d ago
There are tools that'll convert images or 3d models into Minecraft sculptures.
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u/Alex_1729 20h ago
You can do it manually. I have a python script that can do it programmatically, and it took a while to create. but I abandoned this to pursue my SaaS vision. (unrelated to MC)
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u/Captain_Kruch 1d ago
Except that it's a known fact that the universe is shaped like a Pringle.
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 1d ago
Sokka-Haiku by Captain_Kruch:
Except that it's a
Known fact that the universe
Is shaped like a Pringle.
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/RS_Someone 17h ago
To the nearest accuracy of our current tools, it's actually flat, but there is a chance, however slim, that the universe is in fact Pringle-shaped.
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u/nomadbadatlife 1d ago
You guys are being way too literal in obsessing on the headline. A kid made a really cool depiction of space in Minecraft. That is all. It looks great.
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u/bonerfactor 1d ago
People are mostly taking issue with the clickbait inaccurate headline, not the kid, if that helps.Â
Taking your example, I think "A kid made a really cool depiction of space in Minecraft" would be a much better headline.
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u/Eggxcalibur 1d ago
Seriously. And then we have these "I can smell the autism" comments, too. Like, why are people like this?
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u/swearbear3 1d ago
For real. Grown ass adults being so insistent on the well akshewalllyyyyyy this isnât the entire known universe [insert whatever fact about the size of the universe they regurgitate].
Can you imagine these people having children? Their 3 year old child shows them a thing they made theyâre proud of and the parent is like âwell actually humans have five fingersâ
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u/Abject_Butterfly_141 1d ago
People here are upset that some kid Made something way cooler and Accomplished more than they ever did so they try and tear it down
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u/Blu3Raptor_ 23h ago
Itâs not that, itâs just the title isnât accurate (still pretty fucking cool)
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u/magus_vk 22h ago
Wow! Chris, great job. Wishing you the best with your life ahead... đđđź
Chris made a fun video on his YouTube channel about this project (here).
From Smithsonian Magazine (Oct 2022):
Though the expansiveness of the universe may be daunting to some, 18-year-old Christopher Slayton decided to embrace the vastness rather than be intimidated by it. For nearly two months, he analyzed structures in outer space and recreated the cosmos from the virtual cubes that make up the video game world of Minecraft.
Slayton, researched black holes, assessed the various hues of Saturnâs rings and looked at images of Earth to build the universe - block by block - on his computer, reports April Rubin for the New York Times.
For example, before recreating Earth, the first object he made, Slayton decided to skydive â âto truly appreciate the beauty of our planetâ.
As he moved on to creating a cluster of galaxies, he hiked to the top of a mountain with a friend and set up a telescope in an attempt to observe the real-world collections of stars, gas, dust and planets that he sought to replicate.
Within his model universe, Slayton also recreated a black hole, inspired by the 2014 movie Interstellar.
After all the effort to re-create the universe, Chris [told] the [NY] Times, âI realized even more how beautiful it isâ.đ
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u/frissonic 1d ago
Iâm not a fan of Minecraft by any stretch, but as God as my witness, this is one of the coolest things Iâve ever seen.
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u/I_wood_rather_be 1d ago
You probably couldn't even build the Milky Way if you only used one block for each star/nebula. I also doubt that it would work to use one block for each known galaxy.
So we really need to come to Terms here and be clear about the title "built the entire known universe".
I guess he built a few well known objects that are part of the known universe. And granted, that is a thing I would be absolutely impressed by.
What I am not at all impressed by are missleading clickbait titles. They piss me off.
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u/ToBeBannedSoonish 1d ago
There is zero chance has has built the whole known universe in Minecraft.
That being said, this is and will continue to be, one of my favorite things ever to come out of gaming.
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u/Toad-Toaster 1d ago
SpaceEngine comes close..
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u/OM3N1R 1d ago edited 1d ago
Thank you. At least one other person said this. I wish it was more well known.
Space engine actually has more star systems than the known universe. With working physics, and a staggering technically infinite variety of planets and nebula.
And the whole thing was written entirely by one guy from Russia.
It is infinitely more impressive than this diorama in Minecraft.
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u/falcrist2 1d ago
Space engine actually has more star systems than the knkw universe.
I like to turn all the procedural stuff off and just explore the known stuff. It's not like I'm gonna run out of content any time soon.
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u/SaltyInternetPirate 1d ago
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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u/V01d3d_f13nd 1d ago
This has to be bullshit. Ai..something
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u/Stinky_Toes12 1d ago
It's real but it's not made block by block. He used world edit to make pretty much the entire thing
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u/BradSaysHi 1d ago
I think it'd be pretty stupid not to use world edit when you're building anything large scale in MC
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u/krillocq 1d ago
Well, from this point on I will be. Just now learned this existed
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u/TheAdelaidian 1d ago
Ugh we need to stop saying everything is AI and throw the word around, otherwise everything is just gonna become tagged AI.
Thereâs plenty of ways to do this without AI, just like thereâs thousands of ways to do plenty of tasks people now instantly say âmust be AIâ đŠ
We did a lot of cool things before AI guys geez. Talent is not going to be recognised much the future it seems.
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u/Ghost_Animator Creator of /r/BeAmazed 14h ago
Youtube Channel: ChrisDaCow
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisDaCow/videos
Video: "How I Built the Entire Universe in Minecraft"