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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 devgutt »

eevee wrote: post #109
devgutt wrote: post #98

Why not? (function () { var d=1; setInterval(function () { $('#Earth-Illustration').css({'webkit-transform': 'rotate(' + ((d>36) ? d=2 : d++)*10 + 'deg)'})},100); }()); Please, consider Africa as Asia ;)

Perhaps you meant `transform`, which will actually work in WebKit browsers (you forgot the leading `-`) and also be translated by jQuery to other browsers' prefixed property names.

tested in Chrome only...and only "transform" didn't work, I had to add "webkit-" to work...to make simple, I prefered not put the moz line

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by jarek »

primitur wrote: post #100
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...

I'm more bothered by the authoritative fact that 'the timeline for a manned mission to Mars is the 2030s'. Says who, NASA? They're not the only ones trying to get there.

Does anyone else have a realistic more aggressive timeline?

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by larrydavid »

crazygringo wrote: post #48

Very rarely have I seen a single idea so perfectly illustrated. Impeccable timing and presentation. Unexpected, every step of the way. Kudos.

Yes this was really well executed. Kind of a shame to see a lot of the top comments dominated by the picking at any inaccuracy they can find (not surprising, it seems a trademark of HN these days). Ok it isn't a perfect scientific simulation but rather a rough visual guide to grasp the scale of space travel, and I think it achieves that well.

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by bdunbar »

KerrickStaley wrote: post #106

Mars is a desolate, inhospitable rock floating in an immense void. I can't understand why people are captivated by the idea of living there.

I'm semi-captivated by the idea. I'm not spending my (ha) fortune on it, but if the opportunity presented itself, I'd go.

You know how, for millennia, people have been drawn over the hill, to see new sites, live in places no one else has?

That's why.

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by biot »

jlgreco wrote: post #70
calebegg wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would depend heavily on the size of the circles.

Indeed. With small enough tattoos you could put the Earth on your thumb and moon on your pinky.

Or the solar system tattooed up your leg. Starting with the Sun on your heel, and stopping at Uranus.

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by undershirt »

calebegg wrote: post #55
undershirt wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can draw a circle in the palm of your hand, then a smaller circle on the other. Spread your arms out to your side, and that's about the distance from the earth to the moon. I would get that tattooed if I was into that kind of thing.

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.

Re: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

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Post by thangalin »

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

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