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To Scale: The Solar System - 7 Miles of Empty Space needed. (VID)

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  • 19-09-2015 12:35am
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    When looking in a science textbook or a toy mobile of the solar system, it’s easy to depict the sun, planets and moon to scale in comparison to each other. What’s not so easy to visually comprehend the staggering distance that separates each planet on its individual orbit around the sun. Filmmakers Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet challenged themselves to build such a model and the result is this fascinating short film To Scale.

    Starting with the Earth as the size of a marble, it turns out you need an area about 7 miles (11.2km) to squeeze in the orbit of the outermost planet, Neptune. The team used glass spheres lit by LEDs and some GPS calculations to map out the solar system on the dry bed of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Once nighttime arrived they shot a timelapse from a nearby mountain that accurately reflects the distance of each orbital path at a scale of roughly 1:847,638,000. Amazing.

    Full HD needed here people, if you've crap internet then let it buffer....for an age like I had to.:(

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3Igc3Rhfg


    http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/to-scale-the-solar-system/ <<<Includes a making of vid>>>


    Bit of perspective there! Very cool.



    If the Moon were only 1 Pixel.


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