Neat website that scales sizes of REALLY large objects

[sideranautae]

http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/SS/SolarSystemModel.php?obj=Neptune&dist=50m

I made an example of, if the Neptune's orbital radius from Sun was 50 meters how large is the sun and planets and how far from sun.


Diameter Sun = 1.546 cm
Mercury = 0.005417 cm (a human hair is ~0.01 cm) and is 0.6430 meters from Sun.

Good tool to show your players how really empty even our solar system is.

Space is much larger than most people realize.

 

[IanBruntlett]

Space is much larger than most people realize.

Didn't Douglas Adams say something like "Space is big - really big"?

 

[sideranautae]

Space is much larger than most people realize.

Didn't Douglas Adams say something like "Space is big - really big"?

I seem to remember that quote from somewhere

 

[AdrianH]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

 

[Condottiere]

They cheated when they created the Heart of Gold with the Infinite Improbability Drive.