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There's an episode on "Space & Beyond" where they show all the planets in scale to the realworld on an actual football field. Then to show Planet 9 distance th
by ck2 1y ago
There's an episode on "Space & Beyond" where they show all the planets in scale to the realworld on an actual football field.
Then to show Planet 9 distance they have to get in a car and drive a few miles.
That worked for me.
- 7373737373 1y agoMy favorite: Cody'sLab's "How far away are the nearest stars": https://youtube.com/watch?v=dCSIXLIzhzk https://youtube.com/watch?v=dCSIXLIzhzk Also gives an intuition for how incredibly bright stars shine
- oxidant 1y agoI think Bill Nye has something similar, too.
- WillAdams 1y agoYeah, when the solar system was introduced to my class in grade school, we had an outdoor excursion where the teacher brought out a golfball and place it at one end, then brought out various tiny things (noting scale was very approximate) and paced off each to show the relative distances.
- Nevermark 1y agoI have a set of twelve books by an artist, titled "Astronomical" (one book for each letter). The first page shows the sun, then the rest of the books are almost all simply black pages, but with the planets and asteroid belt entities shown with accurate distance and size scale. It communicates the scales really well, while only taking up a little over a foot of bookshelf space when not being "navigated". I have two heavy metallic retro looking rocket bookends for it.
- dmurray 1y agoIf this discovery is real, you'll need to buy another 168 books and they'll span a large bookcase or a small room.
- airstrike 1y agoWhat is "Space & Beyond"?