One day i had a detailed look at a 24 inch machine scale and pondered some new ways to relate to the sizes of things
some "inch" scales are in gradients of decimals and i see them divided into tens, those tens in turn divided to even smaller tens, thus~
1.00 = 1 inch 0.10 = 1/10 th inch 0.01 = 1/100th inch
1/100th of an inch is very small but i see certain things that my mind can measure, like the size of the Earth— a little less than eight thousand miles in diameter.
i can see a mile, but not thousands, so my magic scale says:
1" = 1,000 mi, thus Earth = about 8"
i imagine holding Earth in my hand like a small beach ball, then i figure that the moon is about 2 1/4" big.
how far away is it, i wonder ? let me grab a tape measure :)
given what i have on hand, now there is a basketball and a tennis ball lying some 20 feet apart from each other in the back yard
i look upon all this and fathom it in—
but this vision now zooms upon my "Earth" ball with the scale situated conveniently next to it. detailing the texture of its surface, my eyes become disproportionately larger than my brain—
observing the Space Station cruising about 0.15 above it,
the clouds hovering at 0.01,
and further still through the winds of upper distances, descending between the smallest of lines to my mere figment of a presence at 1/100th the size of this tiny period dot .
— leaving me to wonder how i could possibly have even glimpsed all of this—