[abclily]

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls our climates.

3. The earth is a rock.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Nicely done.

[Standing Wolf]

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

Easy. Tax the commoners and spend billions studying the problem.

[ApplegateRanch]

Illustrated another way...

Sun = 99.8-99.9% of all solar system mass.

Jupiter = 71.3% of all planetary, mass

Earth = 0.224% of all planetary mass, or about 0.000448% of the solar system's mass...unless I slipped a dismal point.