[Conan the Librarian]

I haven't looked recently.

There is instructions out there for the 1000 yard Solar system that might be interesting (Our Astronomy club is setting up one for Astronomy Day). The Sun is a bowling ball and you set the planets out at intervals until you get to Pluto which is a pin head at 1000 yards. Earth is a peppercorn 26 yards away from the Sun.

There is lots of empty space out there...kinda like in a liberals brain...but fuller

[wastedyears]

I thought the Liberal brain was a black hole.

[Verginius Rufus]

The number of inches in one miles is about the same as the number of astronomical units in one light year--so if you made a model with the earth one inch from the sun, a distance in miles would be equivalent to a distance in light years--so Alpha Centauri would a bit more than 4 miles away, Sirius 8.6 miles away, Betelgeuse 427 miles away, and Antares 604 miles away. Deneb, the most distant of the first magnitude stars, would be more than 3200 miles away.

To put that in perspective, the distance between the earth and Deneb on that scale would be almost as great as the distance between Hillary Clinton and the truth.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The concept you are talking about was first pioneered by Chris Burden a California performance artist.