Scrolling with mouse scroll wheel a few hundred thousand kilometers at a time is so much work that I gave up :-(
Its quite cool on the phone
If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
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#12This is truly marvelous! Not only is the horizontal scroll really extra awesome for making me feel the distances...but as others stated, the moment you toggle on the light speed....wow, it really is quite profound! Amazingly done!
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#13Still an extraordinary experience after all these years and possibly the best use of horizontal scrolling I’ve seen. Lots of previous discussions and posts on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=if+moon+only+1+pixel
It's very very good! I thought this one hit hard though, I assume inspired by the moon = 1-pixel viz. https://hmijail.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
that's a great share, I feel like it would also benefit from setting the "speed of light", as something like median average yearly income.
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#14Make sure you press the "c" button in the bottom right. Light is incredibly slow, and everything seems out of reach. I think we'll have a holodeck before we reach another star. And maybe that'll be enough.
I really thought hitting "light speed" would just zoom it all in a minute, but nope... So much for my physics preconceptions.
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#15Wot no Oort Cloud?
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#16Scrolling with mouse scroll wheel a few hundred thousand kilometers at a time is so much work that I gave up :-(
Repetitive strain injury any% speedrun
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#17Make sure you press the "c" button in the bottom right. Light is incredibly slow, and everything seems out of reach. I think we'll have a holodeck before we reach another star. And maybe that'll be enough.
> Light is incredibly slow, and everything seems out of reach. Yes, agreed. I find it a little depressing. An unimaginably huge universe, tantalisingly there, but completely out of reach.
Assuming our models of the universe are correct, and faster than light travel is impossible. There are very strong reasons to believe this, but perhaps we can cheat by stretching and compressing space around us.
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#18Make sure you press the "c" button in the bottom right. Light is incredibly slow, and everything seems out of reach. I think we'll have a holodeck before we reach another star. And maybe that'll be enough.
I really thought hitting "light speed" would just zoom it all in a minute, but nope... So much for my physics preconceptions.
> would just zoom it all in a minute,
The Earth is about 8 light-minutes away from the Sun :)
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#19Make sure you press the "c" button in the bottom right. Light is incredibly slow, and everything seems out of reach. I think we'll have a holodeck before we reach another star. And maybe that'll be enough.
True but doesn’t matter how slow light is. The closest to c your speed is, the shortest the time you experience on board of the space ship. At light speed, space and time cease to exist. You reach destination instantly.
So the goal is to create engines that can take us close to light speed. Then the issue is braking (spacetime expands as you slow down…)
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#20Make sure you press the "c" button in the bottom right. Light is incredibly slow, and everything seems out of reach. I think we'll have a holodeck before we reach another star. And maybe that'll be enough.
> Light is incredibly slow, and everything seems out of reach. Yes, agreed. I find it a little depressing. An unimaginably huge universe, tantalisingly there, but completely out of reach.
Meh, most of it is just more of the same thing. I'd rather play with a paper plane than float in space.