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gvstn

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14. Thanks so much for this.

Fri Sep 18, 2015, 07:55 PM

Sep 2015

It wasn't perfect about showing how big space is,

I remember a movie where one of the astronauts doing some repair on their spaceship, lost their tether and started floating out into Space. That is when you realize how big and cold space really is. It is both terrifying and mind-boggling.

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Video: The solar system to scale [View all] Panich52 Sep 2015 OP

That's was excellent. Skinner Sep 2015 #1

Unfortunately, just as people never saw the solar system to scale, it's not in 3-D either. TheBlackAdder Sep 2015 #2

Well, the eight planets are all closely in the ecliptic. longship Sep 2015 #3

Indeed... gregcrawford Sep 2015 #5

And the fact that Pluto does not clear out its orbit. longship Sep 2015 #6

Okaaay... gregcrawford Sep 2015 #7

No worries my friend. longship Sep 2015 #8

Hey, thanks, Longship! I really appreciate that. gregcrawford Sep 2015 #11

and nothing like electrons in an atom. AlbertCat Sep 2015 #15

Ah, nope. Duppers Sep 2015 #10

EXCELLENT! gregcrawford Sep 2015 #4

Someone did this on our bike trail. idahoblue Sep 2015 #9

IT would make a good science class project. Vincardog Sep 2015 #12

We did something like it in my 9th grade Earth Science class. progressoid Sep 2015 #21

As Carl Sagan says in his book Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.... IHateTheGOP Sep 2015 #13

Thanks so much for this. gvstn Sep 2015 #14

Excellent Thespian2 Sep 2015 #16

Thank you Jack Rabbit Sep 2015 #17

The way to end wars. Half-Century Man Sep 2015 #18

A religious fundamentalist is afraid of their own insignificance fasttense Sep 2015 #20

Staggering lillypaddle Sep 2015 #19