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If the moon were only 1 pixel: a scale model of the solar system
- jw2013 13y agoSince someone brought it up, here are the radius of each planet rounded to nearest hundredth, with the first row provided by NASA, and second row used in the OP's visualization. Just for those interested. (Really appreciate Crito's formatting suggestion below.) MERCURY VENUS EARTH MOON MARS JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO 0.38 0.95 1 0.27 0.53 11.21 09.45 4.01 3.88 0.19 0.33 1.33 1 0.33 0.67 13.33 11.33 4.67 4.67 0.33
- Crito 13y agoSlightly formatted (you can put spaces in front of lines to fixed-width them): MERCURY VENUS EARTH MOON MARS JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO 0.38 0.95 1 0.27 0.53 11.21 09.45 4.01 3.88 0.19 0.33 1.33 1 0.33 0.67 13.33 11.33 4.67 4.67 0.33
- Crito 13y agoThe close distance between Venus and the Earth reminds me of a proposal to use a Saturn V to do a 1 year manned flyby of Venus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Venus_Flyby#Apollo_Applications_Program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Venus_Flyby#Apollo_Appli... Basically it would use a repurposed S-IVB like Skylab. Skylab has a (relatively deserved) poor reputation, but it was spacious as hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awe6vOXURpY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awe6vOXURpY (I wonder if Pete Conrad, seen running around the station in that video, had seen 2001: A Space Odyssey)
- bakkerthehacker 13y agoThis would be cool if I could actually scroll down to move sideways. My mouse's side scrolling is terrible and dragging the scroll bar skips a lot. :(
- mitchellh 13y agoThe right arrow key worked best for me.
- sliverstorm 13y agoIt would be a bit more fun if I could read the comments without having to scroll. After ten minutes of scrolling to reach Jupiter, and being about 1/4 of the way through the solar system, I could not keep scrolling. I got the concept and was not ready to invest another half hour.
- godfrzero 13y agoRead the comments without having to scroll: view-source:http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...
- devindotcom 13y agoGrab the scroll bar?
- wololo_ 13y agoall he had to implement http://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/horz-scroll-with-mouse-wheel/ http://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/horz-scroll-with-mouse... also, if you hold down shift and scroll it should scroll horizontal
- agyl 13y agoGoogle Chrome on Windows allows horizontal scroll with shift key+scroll wheel.
- jonalmeida 13y agoOriginal HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341690
- rttlesnke 13y agoAlso see: http://www.distancetomars.com/ http://www.distancetomars.com/
- ccoggins 13y agoIt's neat, but Earth is 3 pixels wide and Venus is 4 pixels wide. Last I checked Nasa claims Venus is about 95% the size of Earth.
- elboru 13y agoIt is incredible how far voyager 1 has gone, that would be 3 times more scrolling, according to Nasa's website it's 19 billion km away http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/ http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/
- devindotcom 13y agoYeah. Voyager 1 blows my mind. I wonder about some future travel tours people will be taking where they take a faster than light tour bus to go see V1 continuing on its trip.
- noobermin 13y agoThat was enjoyable. Save some of the odd "nothingness" talk, it was a fantastic demonstration of the freaking scale that cosmological physics takes. Think, and people have modeled these scales so well, it's hard to freaking believe.
- snambi 13y agonice page.