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- Cosmosis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Dugg. Here's a mirror of the images (imageshack is below, but they're... slower ;])
http://rr.download.xferla.com:65530/mirror/comagz.com/1.jpg
http://rr.download.xferla.com:65530/mirror/comagz.com/2.jpg
http://rr.download.xferla.com:65530/mirror/comagz.com/3.jpg - plamoni, on 10/12/2007, -17/+43Dude! Uranus is is HUGE!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31Hmm, it kinda looks like former Soviet Union could have easily covered the entire planet of Mars. Red Planet, ha.
- gfw123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23This link gives a better 'feeling' I think (of the scales involved)
http://www.troybrophy.com/projects/solarsystem/planetaryscale.html - Demarche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19"Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen ..."
- jfair, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20"Basically it's models of the stars in our solar system"
Think about that. Read it twice. Really? How many stars are there in our solar system? - colmore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect20/diam2x.jpg
The sun ain't nuthin'. And that only shows the largest stars that we're damn sure of... theory and less direct observation both suggest MUCH larger masses of buring gas. - crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16We may not be the biggest, but our planet looks the nicest to live on.
- Everman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15You'll need to contact the Magrotheians. Depending on the galactic economy, they may or may not be in business at the moment, just give it a few hundred years.
- Cosmosis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13shadcrkd: It's hosted off of my own racks. If you find something else that needs mirroring, give me a hollar (look at my profile contact methods). That goes for anyone else in need as well.
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I still feel like an earthling.
- i4detail, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Everybody sing!
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
It's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
Through an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,
It's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears from galactic central point,
We go round every two hundred million years.
And our galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz.
As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light, you know;
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
Cause there's bugger-all down here on earth! - DiggCommando, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12*listens to the sound of rational thought being suspended*
Remember that statistic showing that most americans don't *know* that the SUN is a STAR? - mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I want to build a life size model....anyone know the price of an empty solar system nowadays?
- DiggCommando, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Good luck with that; Jupiter and the other gas giants are thought to have almost no solid ground, and the temperature on that small rocky core is going to be quite hot (over 20,000 K to be precise).
- MichaelW2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13didnt know mars was that small.
- heysuburbia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I think this Java "zoom in" gives you the best idea of proportion:
http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ - dave11388, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10It's going to be hard to sell land on Jupiter considering it has a small rocky core and is mainly composed of gas and liquid.
- Techlifter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It's sad just how true this is. A month or two ago, the boyfriend actually asked me why the Moon was so much smaller of a star than the Sun. Oy...at least he's cute.
- shadcrkd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Since the site is dying...
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/5851/19rw1.jpg
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/8241/21dc3.jpg
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/8462/37bi.jpg
Thats kind of amazing though..makes us feel like ants. - warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I think that when we can finally reach out that far I don't think we'll be ruining planets anymore.
- plamoni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6And to think... those are just PLANET sizes... the sun is very small compared to some stars... Also, it would take more then 10 THOUSAND Earths stacked side by side to cover the distance from the Earth to the sun!!
- mike007pk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Didn't you guys ever see "powers of ten". It's an old video showing proportions from subatomic to intergalactic... It's a little cheesy (made in the 60's I think) but it's cool to wrap your brain around those distances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrUQboKx_KE - largeboot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7the sun is a mass of incandescent gas. a gigantic nuclear furnace.
- qster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6it makes you wonder....how big fat chicks really are.
- comrademikhail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Am I the only one that caught the They Might Be Giants reference there?? Funny band :).
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5gg @ Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" I was thinking of the exact same thing when I saw the headline. Thats from the end of the movie, the song is performed by Erich Idle.
Monty Python FTW. - BGog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Coral Cache link here:
http://www.comagz.com.nyud.net:8080/webmagazine/story/proportions_how_small_we_are - LoungeActx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Not to mention gravity on Jupiter will crush you into a fine powder instantaneously
- tackle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4For some reason... I had always thought Mars was bigger than Earth (I dont know why). Honestly, this comes as a total shock to me. It feels really weird.
- PDubNYC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Not to mention that Jupiter is made up of mostly gas and liquid and has a small, rocky core.
Had to do it, sorry. It just looked like the 2 previous posters got their info from the exact same source. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That "stars" mistake is probably because in Japanese "hoshi" means both "star" and "planet". I've seen some jp people get confused like "hmm, is there a difference?" :)
- witooo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nice models... it be great to have something like this comparing the solar system and our galaxy with other galaxy's... and ultimatly (unless our galaxy would be to small to see) with all visible space.
- althe3rduww, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Its cool to see this although its nothing new to me. Didn't you guys have models of the planet and star scales in class when you were kids? Man my school must have been pretty advanced.
- santiago1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6 Why? Are you understanding things better now?
- mc900ftjesus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7How exactly does someone ruin something that really had no purpose in the beginning?
Humans only care about the Earth because we live here and if we kill it we're done. Outside or our giant ego trip, the earth has no purpose and neither does the life on it. Nothing about earth is important or special in the grand scheme. In fact, in the grand scheme the sun will expire and anything that might still be on earth will be gone. What does it matter then? The same as it does now, but your giant human "we're important" ego won't be in the way. - gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Being a total sun-loathing, night-owl, coding-type geek, I must heartily disapprove of this idea. Now 5 or 6 moons... that I could go for. Think of what that would do for surfers everywhere, not to mention the werewolves!
- sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yea its in reference to that song, pretty damn funny.
- DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is not practical to model this and be able to visualize it on a computer screen at real sizes and distances, all at the same time, but there is a real-life model of the solar system in Maine:
http://www.umpi.maine.edu/info/nmms/solar/
Its based on a scale of one-mile equals the distance of the sun to the Earth. Since the entire model is to scale, they had to be creative when modeling the Sun, as it would be too costly to construct a massive ball 3 stories high, so its just some arcs painted on the walls of a three story building at the University Maine at Presque Isle. That way, they could keep Pluto visible to the naked eye (its a marble sized rock on a plaque).
The distance from the Sun to the model of the Earth is one mile, the distance from the sun to Pluto is 40 miles. To put things in perspective, the sun is around 3 stories high, the earth is about the size of your head, mars is about the size of your fist, and Jupiter is about the size of a small car.
A google search turned up several other of these models, one is in Australia, one might be near you, it would be interesting to see one. - fletchowns, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11Yeah, I can't wait for the human race to ruin another planet.
- rideagain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4don't forget to credit the song. That's the Monty Python if I remember correctly.
- heysuburbia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My Very Energetic Mom Just Served Us Nine Pizza's
MVEMJSUNP
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Anybody learn this in grade school to remember the planets? - VeryBoredNow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If the Sun was 1 inch in diameter the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
Ponder that for a second. - hokieaudi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Jupiter's diameter is approximately 140,000 km... the sun's diameter is about 1,400,000 km, so there's an order of magnitude size difference between Jupiter and the sun. My eyeball estimate says that the sun as pictured in the third image is roughly ten times the size of Jupiter, first planet on the left below the sun. Proportionally it looks fine to me.
- sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Time to expand the human race, 8 billion isnt enough for my mission. I think Ill take about 1 billion to Mars as a Starting Course.
- TekeeTakShak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Holy baJesus, Batman! I thought we were small...but I didn't know we were THAT small! Hell, look at Pluto in the last picture...you can barely see it :)
- val8ntin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For anyone who claims they also have a render of the Solar System with proportional distances; it's impossible (I saw a lot of this in the comments of the actual site). To quote "A Short History of Nearly Everything":
"it isn't possible, in any practical terms, to draw the solar system to scale....even if you shrank everything so that Jupiter was as small as a period at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger than a molecule, Pluto would still be over thirty-five feet away."
Cheers. - CaptRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Metallic hydrogen huh? Wow gravity's a bitch.
- Enitime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"and ultimatly (unless our galaxy would be to small to see) with all visible space."
Considering there are billions and billions of galaxies, millions of light years apart... "too small" is a safe bet. - male73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2While we're at it, everybody sing:
That's about the size, where you put your eyes
That's about the size of it.
When the big becomes the little ... huhum huhum huhum ... umm
oops, forgot the rest but you know what I mean. -
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