Posted on 09/18/2015 2:35:43 AM PDT by SMGFan
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A pair of filmmakers visited a dry lake bed in Nevada to build what they describe as the first-ever scale model of the solar system.
Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, who posted the video on YouTube and Vimeo, said they wanted to show the true size of the solar system and the distance between its sun and planets by building a scale model in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
The model began with a marble-sized Earth, which to scale meant the entire model required 7 miles of empty space.
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Has GoogleEarth photographed it yet?
Joe Average never realizes just how massive space is.
A quick, simple, and easy test to find out if someone fundamentally knows how infinite space is and how infinitesimal they are to it.
Suggest we shoot our garbage in to the sun. If they balk at the idea, they don’t have a clue.
And yes .... God IS staggering
Thank you for bringing this perspective, right about now.
Nice to think about something bigger than all the petty nonsense everybody gets caught up in .
Got me thinking of “The Windows of Your Mind”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU
Academy Award Best Song from “ The Thomas Crown Affair”. Matt Drudge played it on his radio show.
We have a perception of the asteroid belt as this place where there are massive ricks tumbling though space as far as the eye can see. The reality is that the average distance between asteroids is more than a million miles and it would be a fairly rare event to see another asteroid if you were on the surface of one.
Got 45 minutes? Video of what it would be like traveling out from the sun at light speed. (gets just beyond the orbit of Jupiter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=1AAU_btBN7s
Isn’t it “ Windmills?”
Yes it is. :) A bit sleepy this morning. Should have cut & pasted.
At least one other scale model exists, because I visited it as a child.
Last summer I folded it.
..........Stephen Wright
but I wouldn't want to paint it.
..........Stephen Wright
Great stuff- this and the videos posted below, as well.
They could actually be fairly close and you still might not see one because it’s absorbing more of the sun rays than reflecting it.
How often have asteroids passed by earth and we only knew about it afterwards?
actually there is one in northeastern maine that is much more impressive.
Also true.
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