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If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by bebop »

thangalin wrote: post #119
brownbat wrote: post #22

I'd really like to see a few more markers: 1) 3100 px: Farthest humans have been from Earth (Apollo 13, April '70: 400,171 km) 2) 10 px: Gemini 11, farthest from Earth on non-lunar mission (Sept '66: 1,374.1 km) 3) 3 px: Apogee of ISS (farthest a human has traveled for... a while: 424 km) (I'm probably forgetting something, can't find a good list of spaceflights by distance...) Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…

I made a 3D render of a flyby. I should have added markers from the space programs into the video. The video shows how long it would take to reach all the planets, if you flew at a constant velocity (about 10x light speed). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0JMaM_tdQ

well done!

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by sasoon »

ajays wrote: post #138
marcosdumay wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can easily build an in 1:2e9 scale replica of the Solar System. You'll just need a 90cm sphere to use as the Sun, some 4-5 km of area do arrange things and a paquimeter for measuring the planets. At this scale, everything is just about as big/small as one can manipulate. Bu you won't be able to place the Voyager in there. For that you'll need a car and a road trip.

Isn't there such a thing in downtown Ithaca?

Here is one in Zagreb, Croatia. Scale is 1:680,000,000. Sun is in the center of the town, and it is 2m in diameter.

http://www.spottedbylocals.com/zagreb/zagreb-solar-system/

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by ubershmekel »

Jabbles wrote: post #104
ohazi wrote: post #51

Is anyone else a little bothered by the fact that the reported speed was 1/5 the speed of light, yet the flyby necessarily increased to well over the speed of light in order to actually get you to Mars before you got bored and closed the tab? Traveling at the speed of light would have taken 5-20 minutes. Traveling slower than that would have taken even longer...

For me it currently says "You're currently travelling at 7,000 pixels a second 200,000 km/h" - which is clearly wrong, as at that speed it would take an hour to get to the moon. Good idea, well intentioned. But they got the numbers wrong...

100 pixel earth = 13KM

1 pixel = 0.13KM

7K pixels/s = 910 KM/s

910 * 60 * 60 = 3.3 Million KM/h

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by chrislomax »

maurits wrote: post #155

My favourite scale of the universe picture: http://scaleofuniverse.com/universe-medium.jpg

Never seen that image before, that is quite scary really. When people state that there is no such thing as aliens really annoys me when you see visualisations such as this.

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by yen223 »

chrislomax wrote: post #156
maurits wrote: post #155

My favourite scale of the universe picture: http://scaleofuniverse.com/universe-medium.jpg

Never seen that image before, that is quite scary really. When people state that there is no such thing as aliens really annoys me when you see visualisations such as this.

There's almost definitely aliens out there. The question is, will we ever get to meet them?

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by captainbenises »

yen223 wrote: post #157
chrislomax wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never seen that image before, that is quite scary really. When people state that there is no such thing as aliens really annoys me when you see visualisations such as this.

There's almost definitely aliens out there. The question is, will we ever get to meet them?

Of course we will, just will it be in the next 100 years, the next 1,000 or the next 10,000?

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by jmd_akbar »

undershirt wrote: post #116
calebegg wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would depend heavily on the size of the circles.

I saw a scale model at an exhibit once. I put my hands over the earth and moon, and my wingspan covered it perfectly with both fitting inside my hands comfortable. I thought it was a very interesting way to illustrate it.

wait.. wingspan?
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