[Closed] To Scale: The Solar System

Innit great?

It is cool, but wouldn't it be better still if it was permanent, and easy to access, and a cycle path!

[url= https://www.york.ac.uk/solar/index.html ]https://www.york.ac.uk/solar[/url]

This video isn't as polished as th OPs, but you get the idea.

Awesome.

There used to be a to scale solar system outside Jodrell Bank. Always impressed the children I took there from school.

Yes, saw that when trying to answer one of non stop stream of questions coming from my boy.

I do like the way it was done, maybe some more drone footage, from a height would have been good.

BM'd ferl8ters

There's one on the Bridgwater canal, well, 2 actually, one in each direction from a model of the Sun at Maunsel Lock. About 6 miles each, though I think someone's pinched Mercury in the Taunton direction.

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There's one on the Bridgwater canal, well, 2 actually, one in each direction from a model of the Sun at Maunsel Lock. About 6 miles each, though I think someone's pinched Mercury in the Taunton direction.

I think this is the one that I was going to mention. We hired bikes several years ago while in Somerset, rode along the canal path & found a scale solar system. It was great! Not as visually impressive as that video, but impressive nonetheless when you were using your own pedal power to travel the distances.

Very nice video, thanks for sharing.

What's amazing is it doesn't even begin to encompass the scale of the universe as a whole. Even the solar system itself is pretty under-represented as they've not mentioned the Kuiper Belt

jeees I thought it was a long way down the road to the chemist, but it turns out that's peanuts to space

There's one on the Bridgwater canal, well, 2 actually, one in each direction from a model of the Sun at Maunsel Lock. About 6 miles each, though I think someone's pinched Mercury in the Taunton direction.

Beaten to it - good family ride with some mixed (albeit flat) off road

There was(is?) one in QE Country Park in Hampshire too...

Think about it!

How massive is the solar system that has been here for billions of years and how long have we been around! Kinda puts your life into perspective when your worrying about paying the bills etc.

Sorry to get deep folks but when I look up at the stars I always think about how small we are and how so precious life is.

I really enjoyed that vid ^^ after a long hard day at work, then more grief at home... that was a very nice restbite, a moment or two to relax and enjoy..

Cheers

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restbite

I think your way is better.

Very good but one thing is missing, the distance to the nearest star on that scale.

Very good but one thing is missing, the distance to the nearest star on that scale.

So on that scale Neptune is 3.5 miles from earth

Lets do a quick Fermi style approximation

Neptune is actually 2.7 billion miles from earth. So lets call the scale the have used 1:1 billion

Proxima Centauri is 4.5 light years away

1 Light year is 6 trillion miles (6 x 10^12 miles)

So Proxima Centauri is 28 trillion miles away

28 trillion dived by 1 billion is 28,000.

Circuference of the earth is ~ 25,000 miles

So on that scale still greater then the circumference of the Earth!