Solar system to scale - neardy awesomeness
- Thread starter BelemNole
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It does me as well. I was regarding a book the other day--- looking at our solar system alone: if the sun is the size of a tennis ball the earth is 3 football fields away and the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Pluto is thousands of miles away from that period.... Absolutely mind blowing....
I'll admit the thought of space scares me some for some reason....
Some other links I've seen about the scale of the universe.
Interactive slide from smallest measurement of distance to total universe
http://htwins.net/scale2/
Size of our Sun compared to largest in known Universe
Interactive slide from smallest measurement of distance to total universe
http://htwins.net/scale2/
Size of our Sun compared to largest in known Universe
was in Zagreb recently. An artist already did something like this a decade ago. the sun and to scale models of planets placed around the city at to-scale distances.
http://www.spottedbylocals.com/zagreb/zagreb-solar-system/
http://www.spottedbylocals.com/zagreb/zagreb-solar-system/
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains 100-400 billion stars and at least 100 billion planets.
There are approximately 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
There are approximately 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
Even that you don't appreciate as much without seeing the distance in between the plants and the stars. I mean if you put that biggest star on that same model they made in the desert no telling how far away they'd have to go to keep it in scale. Also, think about the odds of getting hit by an asteroid or a comet now. One would be a mere spec on that scale model of our solar system. Pretty amazing when you see it like that...
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains 100-400 billion stars and at least 100 billion planets.
There are approximately 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
We're finding out that there are far more planets in our galaxy than stars.......so if there are 200 billion stars, there's probably 2-4 times as many planets.
It defies common sense to think we are alone in this universe.
Who knows, maybe there's a "Worgchant" somewhere out there.
Completely concur..............I'd hate to think this dumb species is the smartest in the universe.
Chances are there is something similar somewhere.......maybe not right now, but in the past or the future.
Dude, that is farking ugly! Haha thank God for water.
And turns out that map is a gravity map of the earth.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...ap-earth-gravity-geoid-goce-esa-nasa-science/
No doubt bitching about interplanetary bias.
They probably have their own Finebaum too. And he looks exactly the same.
