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Solar System "to Scale" Website, (Size AND Distance!) |
Apr 13 2006, 03:52 AM
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Hope you like scrolling! Though use the embedded anchor links or you will never find them
Solar System 1 pixel = 1000 km -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Apr 13 2006, 04:07 AM
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Warning - crashes my Firefox v1.0.7 on RH Enterprise Linux
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Apr 13 2006, 04:28 AM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Oops - sorry about that! Firefox 1.0.4 works fine with it on Mac OS 10.4.5....
And Internet Exploder... And Safari.... and Camino.... and OmniWeb (though it compressed the distance for some reason) Haven't tried it with Lynx yet -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Apr 13 2006, 01:32 PM
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![]() Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 24-November 04 From: Heraklion, GR. Member No.: 112 |
What a waste of space
PS. FireFox 1.5.0.1 on WinMe has no problem either. |
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Apr 15 2006, 04:29 PM
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![]() Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
Reminds me of Steven Wright's joke: "I have a full-scale map of the United States. One mile equals one mile."
I like the 1-to-10 billion scale model of the solar system that is located outside the National Air & Space Museum (and which extends several blocks along the Mall). See http://www.jeffreybennett.com/voyage.htm -------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Apr 17 2006, 02:57 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Hmmm... when I load the page linked above, I see the entire solar system (at least as it's currently defined), but all of it appears in the width of my screen. The Sun and planets are all to scale, and rendered properly (not squished or anything), but the distance between them is most definitely not to scale. At all.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Apr 17 2006, 03:23 PM
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![]() Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
Only the sun was visible for me when I hit that link initially - I had to do a lot of scrolling to get out to Mercury, and Pluto is waaaaay out at the very end. I wonder if it's a browser setting thing....
Anyone have enough spare time to see how long it takes to scroll to Pluto by holding the right scroll arrow down? -------------------- --O'Dave
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Apr 17 2006, 03:50 PM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Reminds me of Steven Wright's joke: "I have a full-scale map of the United States. One mile equals one mile." I like the 1-to-10 billion scale model of the solar system that is located outside the National Air & Space Museum (and which extends several blocks along the Mall). See http://www.jeffreybennett.com/voyage.htm Wright concluded that joke with "And then I folded it." If you want a nice afternoon stroll across the entire Sol system, the Carl Sagan Planet Walk in Ithaca, New York is most convenient. Just under one mile one way from the Sun in the Commons to Pluto right outside the Sciencenter. http://sciencenter.org//saganpw/ Having been dedicated in November of 1997, some of the data on the planets is out of date, especially regarding the number of moons for some of the worlds, but the Sagan Planet Walk does give one a good sense of scale of things in our celestial neighborhood. What really blows most people's minds is when you tell them that if they wanted to walk from this model's Pluto to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, they would have to go all the way to Hawaii! -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Apr 17 2006, 04:40 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Hmmm... when I load the page linked above, I see the entire solar system (at least as it's currently defined), but all of it appears in the width of my screen. The Sun and planets are all to scale, and rendered properly (not squished or anything), but the distance between them is most definitely not to scale. At all. -the other Doug other Doug: You have a 20 AU screen? Bet it's a G5! Does it cause... ...tides? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Apr 17 2006, 05:45 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
The Sun and planets are all to scale, and rendered properly (not squished or anything), but the distance between them is most definitely not to scale. At all. That happened to me in Omniweb but not in Firefox.... hmmmmm.... did you check your framostat? -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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