Scale of our Solar System

[Jak Nazryth]

Here is an interesting link to give people a more accurate idea of the size of our sun and the planets when compared to the actual average size of our solar system as a whole.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

 

[Anonymous]

"The fact that you're here, in the midst of all this nothing, is pretty amazing when you stop and think about it."

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Space Scale for Dummies is what that was.

 

[BrianSmaller]

Isn't it fantastic that we can cross the vastness of space with the blink of our imagination.

 

[alex_greene]

Isn't it fantastic that we can cross the vastness of space with the blink of our imagination.

That's what we've been doing with Traveller for 38 years.

 

[Condottiere]

I've gone farther in both space and time.

 

[alex_greene]

I've gone farther in both space and time.

You're still stuck in 1977 there. I'd expect to see the Jupiter 2, the TARDIS or the Starship Enterprise here, if we're talking about SF history.

It's the reason why I didn't post pictures of Moonbase Alpha's Eagles.

 

[AndrewW]

You're still stuck in 1977 there. I'd expect to see the Jupiter 2, the TARDIS or the Starship Enterprise here, if we're talking about SF history.

1977? Well the original Starship Enterprise is older then that...

No Battlestar's?

 

[Condottiere]

 

[simonh]

Here is an interesting link to give people a more accurate idea of the size of our sun and the planets when compared to the actual average size of our solar system as a whole.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

Nice site. I make that 4.4 million km per mouse click, or over 40 times lightspeed at 3 click per second.

At that rate, one lightyear would take 2,150,000 clicks. So Barnards star would be 9.46 million mouse clicks away, which would take 36 days of continuous clicking, day and night with no breaks. That's also several times the expected duty lifetime of most mice.

As a wise man once said - you may think it's a long way down the high street to the chemists, but that's peanuts compared to space.

Simon Hibbs

Edit - I thought I could probably do 5 clicks/sec but the site can't really keep up with that.